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(25,348 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)lastlib
(23,356 posts)I sure wouldn't have gotten it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2680 Points!
Factotum: Servant (Hardest) X
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 13, 2013, 03:41 PM - Edit history (1)
Your score: 3640
Average Scores
Teens: 1850
20-somethings: 2270
30-somethings: 2480
40-somethings: 2650
50-somethings: 2780
60-somethings: 2900
70 and above: 2780
I tried again and got:
Your score: 3820
It gets hard when some of the words can somewhat mean like the other, or your initial meaning of the word does not show up as a choice. It slows you down.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Learning English like a second language involved reading dictionaries as a kid.
On Edit... I might know these words reading them, but pronouncing them is a whole different ballgame.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)What is your native language, if I may ask?
Although, I must admit, I learned both languages in tandem.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Score goes up as age goes up until you hit "70 and above" when score goes down to match "50 something" range.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I missed attenuate.
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)Got'em all right, just a bit slow to answer on a couple.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)They're not easy, and if you have to think any, you really get dinged!
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I think I got ten relatively easy words that for some reason a lot of points were applied to. I took it several times in a row and didn't get anywhere near that high again (best I got after that was 3450 and worst was 2270), but I think that had to do more with getting not enough words with high points attached since at worst I got only one wrong. A lot of words they gave really lousy definitions for.
Pretty weird test since it really all depends on whether or not you get a lot of high value rated words from the ten they give you. You can get all 10 right and do it really fast but just not get a very impressive score because the luck of the draw didn't give you hardly any or any at all high value point words. And the point values vary a LOT... 200-550 (550 was the highest I saw).
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I am terrible at vocabulary and this is coming from someone who is a doctoral student. I always try to do the Word Power in the Reader's Digest if I can.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)And that was while being distracted by the Classic Rock station in the background playing "Dream On"...
lastlib
(23,356 posts)"Sing with me, sing for the years,
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears,
Sing with me, just for today,
maybe tomorrow, the good Lord'll take you away......."
LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)My hardest word was "Confabulate", so I think I got a relatively easy round. Maybe the six years of Latin hell I had to go through in school were good for something after all...
But, considering that English is my third language, I'll take it. I'm sure my English teacher would like to take credit for it, but I think I learned a lot more from Douglas Adams, Star Wars, the Beatles and Iron Maiden.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)I wasn't fast enough, although I got them all right.
Sognefjord
(229 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)Average Scores
Teens: 1850
20-somethings: 2270
30-somethings: 2480
40-somethings: 2650
50-somethings: 2780
60-somethings: 2900
70 and above: 2780
progressoid
(50,011 posts)3700 the first try. 3350 the second time.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Kaleva
(36,384 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)progressoid
(50,011 posts)Wanted to click the second one and got the third one. Turns out the third one was the correct one!
Lucky error.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)My life doesn't seem to work that way... LOL
yewberry
(6,530 posts)But I love words...
mulsh
(2,959 posts)n/t
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Your score: 3540
Average Scores
Teens: 1850
20-somethings: 2270
30-somethings: 2480
40-somethings: 2650
50-somethings: 2780
60-somethings: 2900
70 and above: 2780
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)lastlib
(23,356 posts)Congrats!!
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)snot
(10,540 posts)marzipanni
(6,011 posts)(different tests) Finally got all correct and got 4100- got to be on the daily leaderboard ¡ ! did you put your score on it?
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Hard to tell how they quantify these scores and each test is different so I don't know how easy it would be to compare one score with another. Fun though.
3560 in another play through.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Your score: 3780
Average Scores
Teens: 1850
20-somethings: 2270
30-somethings: 2480
40-somethings: 2650
50-somethings: 2780
60-somethings: 2900
70 and above: 2780