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In light of recent developments, I got curious. Honest answers only, please.
In light of recent developments, I got curious. Honest answers only, please.
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24,400Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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31,400 words. considering how many words there are in the english language, that's not very many i suppose."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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There's a lot of strange words there. ~32K(\__/)
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I got
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I admit I immediately guessed what uxoricide was because of the etymology, it was kind of obvious but I'd never seen it before in English.Comment
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I know seven words. **** you.Comment
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i'm very curious now about the 7th word aeson."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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That's only six.(\__/)
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Yeah, there were a few that were pretty easy to figure out, but I didn't check them off. Interesting that the verbal SAT scores actually seem to correlate to their test, though I still don't know how much relationship there is to the real world.Originally posted by Kitschum View Post
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I keep the last one in reserve so people don't know how smart I really am.Originally posted by notyoueither View PostComment
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Wow, Koya has a big vocabulary. I got 36,800 words. Tenebras I know from the Latin, not the english.
I believe caitiff is the most difficult word on my list that I know.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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Originally posted by Aeson View Post
Good thinking.(\__/)
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37800
missed (1st screen):
valetudinarian
missed (2nd screen):
adumbrate
puckish
raiment
sedulous
epigone
bibulous
embonpoint
pother
cenacle
cantle
terpsichorean
deracinate
fuliginous
oneiromancy
tatterdemalion
williwaw
caitiff
hypnopompic
opsimath
sparge
uxoricide
EDIT: did I seriously not check off regnant? I know that word. Oh wll, probably makes up for a word I checked off and did not know.
EDIT 2: oh, I did check it off, along with estivation. fixed nowLast edited by KrazyHorse; August 8, 2011, 00:07.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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The hardest word I knew was vibrissae12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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As a point of comparison, I scored 790 on my verbal SATs (at 15) and 760 on the verbal portion of the GRE. I have done a lot of crossword puzzles in my life.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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