Taylor challenges us to beat her score in what she calls the Vocab Smackdown quiz. She got 11/15; I got 14/15.
Bring it on!
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I got 11/15
14/15 here.
Hee. 14/15 too.
10/15
14/15 for me too!
“seem55” – I do not!
14/15
Thanks for making me feel smart today!
They’re always one that’s ambiguous:
Plastic/Wooden/Leaden
They say “plastic” means “malleable,” and so differs from “wooden” and “leaden.”
Plastic also means “fake.” In that sense, it’s closer to “wooden”—as in, a wooden response. “Leaden,” then, in terms of response, is dull and soporific, but doesn’t have the implications of construct that the other two have.
If you think materials, plastic is different from wooden or leaden. But if you think of responses or reactions, leaden is different from plastic and wooden.
Yeah…14/15!
I think plastic makes sense because being malleable or “Fake” means you are shaped easily…like how a fake person molds themselves into what they think others want them to be.
Aw, I only got 11. But I understood the ambiguous plastic question! Yay me.
14/15 I was surprised, a couple of them I went with my gut reaction, which apparently was right ;p
Damn. 11/15.
That was disgusting. Where’s the Advil?
Yeah! 14/15 for me! (Missed question #2).
Hey, I’m happy with my 12/15.
I got 15!!! Admittedly at least two were (intelligent) guesses.
In defense of my 10/15 score
I……………..hmmm..
I have no defense!
I’m gonna start googling the answers on these quizzes like the rest you do.
13/15 Not too bad!
13/15 Not bad.
12/15. I did get the “plastic” one.
Spaminator word- easy 58. Well not so easy!
13/15
12 also. Had more issues with disembarassment than plastic, although I recognized that the plastic one was a big trap depending one which logic road you took.
14/15… assay tripped me up.
13/15…not bad!
13/15
I knew one of them was going to be wrong but thought it was too easy of an answer. I should have went with my first instinct.
Teri
13/15
… And I changed one from the right one to a wrong one. *smacks her head on her desk*
Another 15/15 here. Question 2 gave me a bad moment, but.
(captcha: know54. Why yes, I do. *preen*)
13/15.
I got two wrong – damn! or… Counfound it!
(snicker)
A perfect 15/15! I knew that minoring in Latin in college would pay off someday!
12/15
Try http://www.freerice.com. For each word you identify correctly, they donate so many grains of rice to charity. At least your vocabulary “skillz” can benefit others!
Another 11/15 here. I missed plastic and disembarrassment. And yes, I love Freerice, too.
Ditto Shannon—11/15 here, missed plastic and disembarrassment, and love FreeRice too. I’m such a copycat.
15, Yes, I brought it!
11/15 and yes for plastic and diembarrassment. I didn’t realize until after that it wasn’t a timed test, or I would’ve reviewed.
14/15 for me, and it was the incredibly ambiguous plastic/wooden/leaden question for me. I don’t think of wooden and leaden as having much in common at all – I was thinking of “expressionless”, and so thought plastic and wooden were more similar. Leaden, to me, means “heavy, turgid, boring, exhausted”, not “unmalleable”. Oh well.
Still, it gave me a workout!
13/15. Darn assay…I had filiam but then thought it was to obvious so I changed.
15! Oh yeah!
I’d be more proud if there hadn’t been so much guesswork involved in some of them (yes, 11 and 12, I’m talking about you).
[Oscars speech:] I’d like to thank, my Mum, (my passion for) the OED, and Historical Romances.
Every word in the sentences in 12, 13, 14 and 15 would have been entirely unexceptionable in a historical romance. If only I’d ever bothered to look up propinquity then I’d not only have recognised it but also have know what it meant! 😉
15/15, baby! I must admit that I too, just took a random guess at which answer they were looking for in the wooden/plastic question.
I got “only” 12/15, but English is my second language (the first is Finnish), so I’m very happy with the result.
I use English at work (I’m a Technical Writer) and I read 50-100 books in English per year, so that probably explains it. And maybe luck. 🙂
12/15 here, got the disembarrassment and plastic questions wrong. I also tripped up with the ‘reverberate’ question, but that’s my bad: I just felt they were all different and so guessed. “Extrication means release or rescue from an entanglement. Disembarrassment involves freeing somebody from something embarrassing, unpleasant or burdensome.” … Synonym? Reeeeally?