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voltaire · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:16 am Post subject: Hardest Vocabulary Quiz Ever

I usually get 90% on online vocab quizzes; on this one I scored 'dunderhead'. Hows about youse?
http://triviapark.com/quizzes/definitions.html

smithrn1983 · Joined: 23 Jul 2010 Posts: 320 Location: Moscow

Postulant. And if I'm honest, I guessed on almost all of them, even three of the ones I got right.

Kiwi303 · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:50 am Post subject:

Your score of 4 right out of 10 questions is higher than 55.4% of previous users, tied with 19.8%, and lower than 24.8%. Your personal Definitions Quiz ranking is:

Postulant

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

I knew one of them. Three correct by guessing.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:30 pm Post subject:

I'm embarrassed:

Correct! Your final score is 7/10. Thanks for trying the quiz.

I missed the first two - and, darn it - I KNEW one of them.

But hey - I still got a rating of philologist (whatever the heck THAT means Very Happy

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Your score of 7 right out of 10 questions is higher than 94.1% of previous users, tied with 2.9%, and lower than 2.9%. Your personal Definitions Quiz ranking is:

Philologist

Regards,
John

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

I knew "Cordwainer" as that appeared on a 19th century census as the profession of one of my ancestors, so I just had to look it up!

voltaire · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject:

Can I suggest that we all look up 'irony' to understand Johnslat's comment?

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

Gosh, Sash, that's a great idea; I wonder why nobody thought of that. Now we can all look up "sarcasm".

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:37 pm Post subject:

Only after you check out 'rise', as in 'getting a rise from someone' : )

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

rise (above), to ignore or be indifferent to, as an insult.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:04 pm Post subject:

Well, I HAVE been called a philogynist and a philanderer before, and I admit to being guilty of canophilia and ailurophilia, to philotherianism ih general, actually.

Regards,
John

johntpartee · Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 3258

I was accused of matriculating once.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

Dear johntpartee,

A base canard, indubitably. I hope you thrashed the rotter.

Regards,
John