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How many of these 100 SAT-level words do you recognize?
- Thread starter Kieli
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There's a few words in there I don't recognize - maybe about ten in total. But the majority of them are daily words that everyone uses...
Who doesn't know what inconsequential means?
Who doesn't know what inconsequential means?
I've used it several times on this forum, and a quick search shows me I'm not alone. What is it about this very useful word that offends you?
All words I'm familiar with and plenty I use regularly.
I studied law rather than literature, but I read pretty widely.
I studied law rather than literature, but I read pretty widely.
All of them. I was expecting weird technical vocabulary or antiquated forms, but those are pretty straight forward
Never come across sagacity before, understood the rest. But my issue is I know a word but don't know how to convey its meaning to others, and I'm really bad at picking out synonyms.
I recognized all of them because I'm a vocabulary nerd. Learning new words was one of my most dedicated hobbies as a child. I still have family who send me interesting words from articles and such.
Apart from circuitous, hackneyed and florid, i knew or understood all of them despite not being a native english speaker.
But that's probably because most of these words are based on french so the meanings where obvious even if i did'nt know that they existed in english.
But that's probably because most of these words are based on french so the meanings where obvious even if i did'nt know that they existed in english.
I've seen all of them before, but there were a couple I didn't know the exact definition of.
assiduous
deleterious
enervating
evanescent
hackneyed
impute
perfidious
precocious
surreptitious
Ant then there's florid, which I thought meant flowery (the only thing that makes sense given the etymology). Merriam-Webster agrees, so I'm fine with that, even if it isn't what this article says. And same with parched and thirsty, which is the only context I've ever seen it used in.
So 9/100. Not bad considering English isn't my first language and I don't read as much as I used to.
Some of the words here also seem way out of place because they are way too common. Like novice, renovation, conditional or collaborate.
assiduous
deleterious
enervating
evanescent
hackneyed
impute
perfidious
precocious
surreptitious
Ant then there's florid, which I thought meant flowery (the only thing that makes sense given the etymology). Merriam-Webster agrees, so I'm fine with that, even if it isn't what this article says. And same with parched and thirsty, which is the only context I've ever seen it used in.
So 9/100. Not bad considering English isn't my first language and I don't read as much as I used to.
Some of the words here also seem way out of place because they are way too common. Like novice, renovation, conditional or collaborate.
Yeah I know all of those but I took a ton of English lit and Philosophy classes when I was in college. I took one course that was focused on Aesthetics.
I knew them all, but I'm an academic who reads overwritten scholarly prose all day.
Love how Kaplan is telling on the SAT in the opening, though. "Where else in the world might you be required to figure out that LEGERDEMAIN is a skill required by CONJURERs?" While these words are not uncommon... where else indeed but on one of your moneymakers. Testing culture is a waste.
Love how Kaplan is telling on the SAT in the opening, though. "Where else in the world might you be required to figure out that LEGERDEMAIN is a skill required by CONJURERs?" While these words are not uncommon... where else indeed but on one of your moneymakers. Testing culture is a waste.
Well I should hope that you know more than these 100 words specifically and no others.
That would be pretty weird.
Knew the meaning of 91 of them.
It's crazy how close to french (and latin languages) english can be sometimes. I recognized a good amount because they're nearly identical to the french version
It's crazy how close to french (and latin languages) english can be sometimes. I recognized a good amount because they're nearly identical to the french version
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While the majority of the most used English words are Germanic in origin, French and Latin derived make up about 60% of English vocabulary in total (if I'm remembering my history of the English language college class correctly)
Recognized every one of them except assiduous. Could define/deduce all of them, especially in a testing scenario. Not bad!
My rivals diss my grey hair, they say that I'm senescent
But compared to my vocabulary, theirs is evanescent.
I know most of them. But that's only because I work in a profession that gets off on using big words.
All of them, my mother was an English teacher so I do good at big words. I hate that I can never use big words because no one knows any complex vocabulary.
The irony of this comment is that, deleterious is can actually be used to described the fact that you did not go to college to some people.
Maybe it's becase it is more than a decade since I took the SAT, but I remember the words being a lot more obscure. These are mostly all very common. Most biologists would know what 'deleterious' means.
You would. Of course you would.
What? Anachronistic is a useful term. It precisely describes a fairly common type of narrative dissonance, for one thing. How else are you gonna say something feels out of its time without being wordy?
It's not even an obscure word.
I don't know if it's my education, my having read a lot of books when I was younger or just liking weird and random vocabulary, but I knew all of them. A lot of them, though, are fairly common words I think, so I'm kind of surprised that a word like disdain or abbreviate would be on the list, but something like cromulent isn't (it doesn't even show up as a word in my spell checking dictionary as I typed it!).
holy shit what year is it from this site...
Reading through it, I knew 96/100. Here's the ones I definitely whiffed on:
I have a feeling they procrastinated... or perhaps a result of frugality at the Washington Post. The page is in desperate need for renovation, so let's hope they collaborate with some exemplary developer. Wouldn't want to discredit the WaPo for such a nonchalant attitude for their older web properties.
Reading through it, I knew 96/100. Here's the ones I definitely whiffed on:
- Enervating. Never used or heard of that word, and just to test myself I tried to define it without reading it and was, literally, opposite.
- Impute. Never used it. Reading the definition, I'd probably use the word "imbue" the same way.
- Perfidious. I know it, but I've never used it.
- Querulous ... I always thought this word was "Quarrelous," so I'd be wrong there. I guess that'd be quarrelsome.
I have a feeling they procrastinated... or perhaps a result of frugality at the Washington Post. The page is in desperate need for renovation, so let's hope they collaborate with some exemplary developer. Wouldn't want to discredit the WaPo for such a nonchalant attitude for their older web properties.
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Ha That's funny. Come to think of it, I think I have seen it used i that context before.