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How big is your vocabulary and what is your background?

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My dad's is 36,000 (we took it together and I only knew one he didn't), and he's read a lot of fiction and studied medicine, natural science and finance.

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18,800. Is this good

I dont think this is good

what are some alternative words for "good"

I got 25600. There were a lot of words I recognized but couldn't state a definition for.

I'm a stemfag though.

34,500

Law school grad (top 50 law school), now a high school English teacher

That's only in the 20th percentile according to the test's blog. So not that good.

21,300 software engineer

I swear some of those word are made up.

The test also only measures people who take the test (fucking nerds, including myself), so that's the 20th percentile of people who try to test their vocabulary size.

26,900

College senior in a STEM field

I forgot to say my background, I have a bachelors in psych. And since then work jobs I could have gotten if I had dropped out of high school.

why cant you just say which law school it was.

27,800. I'm a retail wage slave with no prospects in life.

12000000
NEET

for a non-native speaker it seems to be decent

29,800

21,500

I can. Florida State. But that doesn't really mean anything to anyone other than the fact that it's not one of the recognizable t-14 schools. Saying top 50 is a bit more context so you know that while it wasn't t-14, it also wasn't Cooley or some shit.

Also, I know quite a few of my students browse Veeky Forums and there are a couple I think browse Veeky Forums specifically and I'm not sure I want them knowing I post here, so I do try to avoid posting information that could be used to identify me.

22600

Software Engineer

Seems to be about the median for my age

25,100
college dropout
now wage slave for life
The only thing that's saved me I think was reading a lot when younger and doing a lot of crossword puzzles with my mum
Don't sell yourself so short, for foreigners the highest average is 9000, you are already above the everyday American

22, 400.
Just finished High-school and I'm about to enter university this year.

22,900, but I've only read like 4 books in my life.

Using a Nazi hacker website as an educator. Shocking.

Why for life?

no degree = never getting that high paying non wage slave option
I'm in my 30a now, unless you were implying I neck myself

Ive read like 6 and you beat me by around 40,4000 words, that's not fair, why do i suck, should i kms

I wasn't.

Not native, self-taught and never went to any english speaking country
eh, pretty good

26,000

High school graduate and mental patient.

17100 non-native

and writing a fucking book. Maybe that's the reason why I'm so slow at it because my vocabulary lacks.

What's a non native doing writing a fucking book? Why not stick to your native language?

Not bad m8.

What kind of mental patient?

I'm 32,400 words. I don't know how accurate this is though and I would only choose a word if I could use it in a sentence.

>What's a non native doing writing a fucking book?
Can't I? I still consider myself in a learning phase. It became a hobby of mine about a year ago.

>Why not stick to your native language?
My native language sucks.

Not OP, but I'm doing the same. Larger market. Plus I hate reading things in my native tongue, everything sounds so cringey and corny.

About 26,000, non-native.

Language?

Swedish.

Well that is a cringy and corny language. T. Finn

34,500 here. 22 year old drop-out.

36,800

How many words do you have for "Nubian"/"Black"/"Ebony" etc.?

Noice. Did you know their exact definitions? Also, background?

do you write in your cuckshed?

I wouldn't say EXACT definitions, but yes
I work in a factory

What did you drop out of?

37,300
Software Engineer

Not sure, at least over 5 I'd imagine.

Of course.

Didn't know I was on /pol/

You're on someone's pole. (Jamal's pole. You're Swedish.)

You really got me good there mate. Keep it up.

College. It's regrettable, but I spent most of my time either drunk off my ass or asleep, so there wasn't much of a point in staying.

Always. And if it isn't me, it'll be someone else.

nobody but lovecraft or melville would use these words for fucks sake

31,400
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting some these. Guess I should read more.

>What's a non-native doing writing a fucking book?
>Who is Salman Rushdie?

Malapropism is fairly common.
Regnant is a good word for something less hegemonic than hegemonic.
Vibrissae is a good word for whiskers on a dog.
Braggadocio is used.
Tricorn is used. (Poldark wears one.)
Clerisy is a pretty good word, though not used.
Estivation is a good word for the hot and dry version of hibernate.
Tatterdemalion I've heard used.
Caitiff has a cool etymology (means "captured" - i.e. one who is afraid of death and lets himself get caught).
Cantle would be known by some horse riders.
Deracinate is common. Ryan Gosling says it in The Believer.
Williwaw my mom knew but didn't know the definition of because she's been on boats in cold places.
Pule she also knew from child raising.
Terpsichorean my dad knew from Monty Python, although he got the meaning wrong (thought it was for singing, not dancing).
Legerdemain my dad knew from French.
Fuliginous he kind of knew from bird names (birdwatches - it means "sooty").
Opsimath is better than "old mature age student" or "person who starts learning when they're old".
Valetudinarian I will concede is not that useful, but it's specific.

You're right thought that in most cases it would be weird and out of touch.
I read Blood Meridian while looking things up on my phone and it was pretty good.

I know legerdemain from a pleb fantasy book and tenebrous from Stephen King

Braggadoccio is obvious just from the word itself

Malapropism and regnant are the only other ones I knew

34.000 but I'm retarded and I know it, I just read a lot growing up

25600
Finished highschool, dropped out of film school (absolutely abhorrent, the things they taught), starting medical science this year.
Will attempt to qualify for enrollment in an MBBS or MD program next year. I turn 19 today!

>For fucks sake
>Cursing true patrician vocabulary
Calm thyself 'fore apoplexy take ye.

So wait, you had to type out roughly 36k words? Fuck that

...holy...

Show off >:^(

Happy birthday bro, and good luck with that

24,800 college dropout

:(

Second this.

It no positive for I. It make I negative. Negative things for I for nothing.. Positive for something has I.

Non-native, military university.
My high school specialized in English and they pushed us pretty hard in uni. I guess it worked.

Forgot the pic.

25,300
Neet

Isn't this test really easy for French speakers?

Mmmm...

OP test estimates me at 30,800. Background is a highschool education and on/off wageslave "any fuckwit with a pulse could do this" employment.

>testyourvocab.com/
non-native.

I've never encountered a word I don't know for years. This test was quite enlightening, considering people at those top schools probably know 36k+ words in English.

Non-native STEMfriend, second year of uni

I would like to thank H.L. Mencken for some of these words

40200

Non-native highschool drop-out.

32,500 words

I'm saving up for college right now, 'cause that shit's expensive.

Thanks, lads.

9800 non-native

29,500

I want to know if anyone else knew sparge.

26,500
Which is apparently around 75th percentile for my age (18). Still, I feel vaguely ashamed next to some of you.

33,400, NEET.

Kind of annoyed at all of the loanwords.

Any idea on why it's so high?

Size doesn't matter.

I read in four languages and got a habit of using dictionaries. Memory helps, also.

vocablet detected

Poor user. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

27,400

fucking retard and high school dropout

I do write screenplay from time to time

Sorry, I only date boys over 30,000.

11,800.
what do i do?

31400 words

Some of these words I've never seen in my life.

I'm a NEET, graduated high school about two years ago, did fuckall being severely depressed, now am practicing for those college admissions tests hoping to get a scholarship this fall for university.

Am I correct in noting that I know a word, or definition, granted that in context I would understand?
25,400 here, non-native

8000

No. How can you tell which words you'd know in context among the words you don't know?

Do you even actually know English legally at that point?

You are incorrect.
The definition of a word enables you to know what it means without a context. Do not collect words, pay $200.

37,300
>Nurse practitioner, biochem dropout, started with the Greeks when I was a child

Hitting all the boxes shows 44200 - how does that work exactly? English language has magnitude more words

Native speaker, scientific education and career, languages hobbyist.

Latin helps. A lot.

Yes, so does ticking every box