Mark Kamibaya

I took it yet again, after I memorized all the words I missed and now I must be smarter or something, because I got estimated 39,100. 😛

@Daeus Yay!

@sierra-r I took a look at that list. I was surprised to find that tricorn was on it.
Woah! Even more interestingly, there’s that annoying red squiggly line beneath it that says it’s misspelled.

Here’s a fun one that I missed: terpsichorean. Of or relating to dancing 😀

And on a rather unrelated note, can anyone guess when this quote on vocabulary was written? No cheating! 🙂

“The vocabularies of the majority of high-school pupils are amazingly small. I always try to use simple English, and yet I have talked to classes when quite a m…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy I took a look at the list of the hardest words on the test (http://testyourvocab.com/hard), and apparently they only occur in English less than 3 times per hundred million words. So you’re absolutely right, no one should be taking this too seriously.

For those of you surprised they didn’t do better, thought I’d point out that this test is a knowledge quotient test, not necessarily a judge of how deep your vocabulary is. Most of the words on that list I could have figured out just by dissecting their roots, but as I was supposed to click the ones I knew I let them lie. Also, though this…[Read more]

Glad you’re all having fun with this 🙂 *applauds @northerner respectfully*

My vocabulary’s apparently grown since I took this test last year and I now average at around 29,000.

@ethryndal Ooh, that’s a good one. Here are a few that I missed on the vocab test. (trust me, there are more 😛 )

Parsimonious: Excessively cheap with money; stingy

Svelte: Slender and graceful

Embonpoint: Plump

Funambulist: Tightrope walker

@audrey-caylin Ha; that makes sense. There is a fair bit of overlap between these two questions. And that’s awesome. The more you as an author see your characters as real people and write like that, the more your readers will see them as real people as well. Glad to know I’m making people excited about homework. 😉

@ethryndal That looks great! Haven’t read the book myself, but you seem to have analyzed its theme well.

@dragon-snapper Cool; I may have to read that myself sometime. The focusing question may be stronger as just “through means of revenge or forgiveness,” but not having read the short story itself, I couldn’t say for sure.

Ha; I’m sure you are…[Read more]

Here’s one. It might be helpful to all you people who have battles in your stories.

Internecine: Mutually destructive to both sides in a conflict.

@Daeus Good job on that, you made me laugh out loud, which I rarely do. Obi-Wan on a broomstick… I’m at a loss for words. Though you make a good point; that line was always slightly troublesome. And then in Return of the Jedi, he tells Luke that a lot of truths we hold to are based on our point of view, or something like that. So…was he saying…[Read more]

@Emma-Flournoy All cheesy lines and triangles aside, I do like Kili. I agree, the whole Thorin Kili Fili thing was great, though I do wish they had developed Fili just a tad more. I think he would have made pretty interesting character, being the heir of Durin’s line and all. We kind of see the pressure that was on him, and how he was trying to…[Read more]

@faithdk Quite an accomplishment. 😉 I congratulate you.

@dragon-snapper No. His logic was false. It only applies to him because it was a self report.

@emma-flournoy You win a tour of the galaxy!

@Daeus Ah wait—he’s a Sith because he’s dealing in absolutes by saying unequivocally that “Chancellor Palpatine is evil!” and “Then you are lost” ?
How close to the mark did I come…

@Daeus Ah wait—he’s a Sith because he’s dealing in absolutes by saying unequivocally that “Chancellor Palpatine is evil!” and “Then you are lost” ?
How close to the mark…

@daeus Okay, so hypothetically, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothetcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?

@daeus Okay, so hypothitcally, you’re right. Does that make me a Sith?