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  7. I thought I did OK with a rating of 6%. Then I saw your rating .12….I am ashamed. I shall never return to this site again (Self-Banishment-That’s Latin for GTFO). To atone for my ignorance, I shall vote for Hillary.

  16. 30325 .01%
    I admit I checked my guesses on the last five before I selected them.
    On the last ten I reached my answer by deduction. I did not know the answer at first glance.
    Is that cheating?
    I may have known many of these later words, but I would never use them, even in writing….too pretentious.

  34. 22350
    Should have paid more attention in my Orthography course.

    Wow, I am the plebeian amongst the literati.

    I’m comfortable, I’ve always learned from others.
    And who better to learn from than like minded, freedom and liberty loving IOTWReports commenters?

  40. I was feeling pretty smug about 29450 (0.23%) until scanning down the thread to post. Smiled at seeing “niggardly” as a choice to one question. Hey! you can’t say that!

  43. Out of curiosity, I went back and took the test again, but this time checking the words in my OED to see if there were any with meanings I was not familiar with. Nope, there were none of those. But what’s odd is that my second score was lower than my first one by a couple of hundred points. I don’t understand that.

  47. Just for kicks, I retook this thing and intentionally (maybe) choose all incorrect answers. I tested at the level of a 1 year old, with a “are you kidding?” kicker.

    Laugh all you want, but I am firmly ensconced at one end of the bell curve all by myself, while the rest of you are part of the herd at the top.

  51. 22650 – But I totally kicked ass on Jeopardy tonight! (I gloated the other night when I got the final “Brigham Young” and none of the contestants did.)

    I think at my age, I lose my train of thought after the 3rd syllable.

  62. DIS TEST BE RAYCISS!

    “Niggardly” was one of the suggested answers.

    I got 29,800, but I may have had a couple of fat-fingered wrong answers. I might retake later using a stylus.

    At work I have a reputation for using “five-dollar words” in the free-text portion of the petitions I prepare. Once I was working with an Albanian interpreter who could not translate the word “abortifacient” because she didn’t know what it meant in English! I knew, from seven years of Latin (“abortio,” an ending, plus “facere,” to make).

  65. Hey, whatever your score, you probably did better than the average Hillary/Bernie supporter. At least you can read.
    The first time I took it I scored the same as a 12 year old child. Yeah right, a 12 old child from 1900 maybe when they actually taught English in Government schools. The second time I scored 22650. The only time I wear a white collar I when i go to weddings and funerals and at my age I don’t go to too many weddings anymore.

  67. I’d like to get a couple weasel words removed from our lexicon:

    Harass (when accent is on the first syllable, instead of the second, because the weasel speaker is afraid of being accused of saying ‘her-ass’)

    Conflate (I can’t put my finger on why, but this one has to go)

    Wait on (Unless one is literally waiting on tables as a waiter/waitress)

    Respect/Disrespect (Except when used properly as a noun, not a verb)

  73. For today’s slightly amusing story, I haven’t had sleep for 24+ hours, just took it again and scored slightly higher – 29800.

    Like that WKRP episode where Howard Hesseman took a test on-air measuring reaction time while getting hammered and his scores kept improving.

  77. I dun got a goot scour an top dog!
    Whadd I win?
    I fine it saltingly tribunal thet sum peeps jus can’t not do no betern than som ontrher peeps what aint’ so ggod ans others.
    This’d’a ben a big fukkin dela, but I wonit oall an yo’all suck!

    Septen for JohnS – acourse – heza jennious!
    seconal only ta me.

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