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I did well on this quiz -- how about you? How did you score?
| Your Vocabulary Score: A |
 Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary! You must be quite an erudite person. |
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Your Vocabulary Score: A+
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.
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I kinda liked the results from this quiz -- how about you? How did you score?
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Hey, I got an A+!
PS is quixotic really a synonym of idealistic? bit dodgy imo
"A".
"atheist"?, "lithe"? ..."talisman"?!!?? sheesh.
Where's the quiz for smart people?
A+!
Jonathan -- yes, in the sense that "quixotic" comes from Don Quixote; while more than a little deluded, he *was* certainly an idealist.
"A-"!!
Really dragging down the curve.
Where are the useful words like homoscedasticity, anisotropy, or poikilothermy?
By the way, thanks to long-dead but not forgotten Isaac Asimov, below are the answers to a quiz. What is the subject?
1. unionized
2. periodic
3. WC
Spoiler follows!
Read them as 'un-ionized', 'per-iodic', and 'tungsten carbide'. The subject is chemistry.
I got an A as well. And I even know what homoscedasticity is: it's actually part of my active vocabulary.
Hmm, perhaps this is something not to boast about.
Bob
A+
I'll bet most who didn't get A+ were tripped up by "peruse" -- the usage meaning "to skim over" is so common that this is a almost a trick question. Anyone who uses it to mean "read carefully" has already lost that battle.
Here's one neat collection of "GRE words": http://www.english-test.net/gre/vocabulary/meanings/181/gre-words.php
You can alter the 3-digit number in the URL to navigate, or use the buttons at the bottom. A lot more of a fix than "word of the day."
According to Chambers online:
peruse verb (perused, perusing) 1 to read through (a book, magazine, etc) carefully. 2 to browse through something casually. 3 to examine or study (eg someone's face) attentively.
So, it either means read carefully, or read casually.
I got A, not sure which one I got wrong
I got an A-
I try to increase my vocabulary, but I have a bad memory for words (and names. and places. and dates). That GRE thing looks interesting...
Well I got peruse wrong. I always use it to mean skim, though I normally say that I give something a quick peruse.
I do like words that are their own antonyms.
Here's a nice site full of short essays on words by a guy who does words for a living. - Like, for instance, the OED.
I got an A+! And they say English is a useless major...
A easily - but if you look I think it is fo KIDS!
Bah humbug to you as well.
I may have the body of an aged decrepit old man, but I try to retain the mind of a child :o)
Well, I hesitated over "omniscient" (is that "all knowing" or "all understanding"?) but in the end I got it right: A+.
Agnostic: you're right; in casual discourse "peruse" is quickly going the way of "virtually" by rapidly transforming into its antonym.