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crainefish

Vocabulary word quiz (Edit)

Dec 19, 2006 11:32

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samcallahan December 19 2006, 18:32:49 UTC

75 right, 25 wrong. It's a toughy.

fuzzyscribble December 19 2006, 22:24:24 UTC

Well...I got 92 right. But...I did take four years of Latin in high school...two in college...and have a BS in English and write for a living. Somehow I don't think I'm the intended audience.

If it were a MATH quiz...I'd be ejected from my seat I'm sure...

ordinary December 19 2006, 18:52:09 UTC

I didn't do nearly as well, but then I was probably more than half way through before I realized I should probably actually look at the parts of the words to figure them out and did better through that portion of the test. (It just so happens that's the middle, I'm an odd test taker that way.)

The weird part is how somewords were chosen to be defined. I knew what they meant, but was still like... ehh... on the word choice. Not like there was a BETTER choice, but they get you with that "it's not there" thing.

starkraving_mad December 19 2006, 22:14:10 UTC

Yeah, I agree about the choices. There were a few I got wrong cause I chose none of the above, but as soon as that was wrong I knew exactly which one it should have been. There was one (but I don't remember which) where I knew what the word meant and I honestly think one of the other choices was better. And I had a problem with them including the none of the above choice when it was NEVER correct. After the first third or so it was obvious that none of them were going to be the none choice. All in all I didn't really like the test.

I got 69 right though, so that's cool. 69! I'm counting the ones I made educated guesses on as right, but not the ones I just made a random choice and happened to pick correctly. If you include those, I think it was 72.

stupid duck forestdruid December 20 2006, 06:09:06 UTC

yeah... a canard is a fore-wing on a plane damn it! =)

and then? forestdruid December 20 2006, 06:06:45 UTC

I also got 75 right and 25 wrong. I admit that I was uncertain on a fair number of them. I tried using them in sentences, but Holly said my speaking to myself was annoying her =)