I mean I know all English words, but this test has a problem that most correct answers are the longest ones.
How many of the 170k English words do you know?
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#502It misses a "I don't know" button. So it has a 20% false positive by guessing bias built in, right?
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#503Usually the longest answer is the correct one.
Also sometimes two options are the opposites of each others. In this case, one of them is correct.
I feel like you can get close to 70/100 with this heuristics, without actually knowing any words.
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#504Cute, but for strange words clicking the longest explanation turned out to be akmost always rhe correct one :)
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#505The option with more words appears to be the correct answer for each question.
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#506They got the second word wrong, I got it right, but still scored against me. Haha. Impartial does not mean "treating all parties equally". It means "uninterested in the results". Fair would be "treating all equally". That's why there's a phrase "fair and impartial". "Partial" of course, doesn't mean "unfair", so negating it can't turn it into "fair". Partial means to favor one side or the other. This is why when peop…
"Fair and impartial" being a phrase does not preclude "impartial" and "fair" from having overlapping meanings. English has plenty of phrases like that. "Vim and vigor" are synonyms. "Intents and purposes", "prim and proper", "born and bred", "leaps and bounds", "pins and needles", "movers and shakers", "hack and slash", etc.
Every dictionary I've checked so far has "fair" as a synonym for "impartial" and a definition that is more or less "treating all parties equally" while none have listed "uninterested in the results" or anything akin to it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impartial https://www.wordnik.com/words/impartial
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#507Earlier quoted context omitted.
> complacent ("smug satisfaction with oneself" - I disagree that complacency is intrinsically smug) I agree that it doesn't seem 'smug', but weirdly both dictionary dot com and Wiktionary give 'smug' as a synonym or part of the definition. But they also analyze 'smug' as equivalent to self-satisfied or self-complacent, so maybe that's the word whose meaning is not as expected. (I would think of "smug" less as "self-"…
In my mind "complacent" means the opposite of "pro-active" - not taking actions or decisions in the face of an issue. That could be because of feeling panicked or uncertain. So I was also surprised by the "smug" and "self-satisfied" parts.
I don’t get the smug. But complacent has always has the “self-satisfied” and “a bit lazy”. Not exactly what is in your comment, but someone that is rooted in his behavior, but not for stubbornness or arrogance, just “it is ok that way because I’m happy and there’s no reason to change”
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#508Got 59,800, Performance Breakdown: Core Basics 19/20 Intermediate 17/20 Advanced 19/20 Expert 14/20 Grandmaster 12/20 I guess, it's not too bad for a non-native speaker. Minor feedback: 1. The correct answer for "Lethargic" is "Affected by lethargy". I think, definitions should not use words that share common root with the defined word, because: a. it makes guessing too easy b. it basically becomes a circular definit…
I scored slightly better than you. I missed 3 expert and 8 grandmaster...
It only pushed my score up to 65k.
Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?
#509Major flaw in the quiz: you can do great by just picking the longest definition.
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#510I got 88 out of 100, but all I learned from that is that I am really good at guessing. For something like 20 of the words I was able to guess by eliminating the options that sounded unlikely and in a few cases just guess from the meaning of parts of the word.
I'd prefer an "I don't know" option just for a more honest assessment of how many words I truly know versus how many words I can guess.