I think this is new:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm

I got 2300s and then 2240... average

11/7/2011 3:33:46 PM

So...words with friends, with no friends

Fuck it

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 3:36 PM. Reason : 2780!]

11/7/2011 3:34:38 PM

Final Score: 2840 Points!

I screwed up on ecclesiastical

Fastidious: Particular (Medium)
Fathom: Comprehend (Medium)
Empirical: Factual (Harder)
Endemic: Native (Harder)
Fiat: Decree (Medium)
Eldritch: Weird (Hardest)
Ecclesiastical: Religious (Harder)
Indispensable: Essential (Easier)
Ingenious: Clever (Easier)
Inebriated: Drunk (Easier)

11/7/2011 3:36:10 PM

2470

11/7/2011 3:38:26 PM

Final Score: 3280 Points!

missed one.

Correct Answers:

Incredulous: Skeptical (Harder)
Enumerate: List (Harder)
Pristine: Perfect (Easier)
Presumptuous: Bold (Easier)
Indefatigable: Tireless (Medium)
Vulpine: Crafty (Hardest) Your Answer: Superior
Obdurate: Stubborn (Harder)
Incongruous: Clashing (Medium)
Reiterate: Repeat (Medium)
Transient: Momentary (Easier)

11/7/2011 3:38:47 PM

right around 2,000.

ha. need to work on that

11/7/2011 3:39:09 PM

3020

but i just guessed at like 3 and happened to be right.

11/7/2011 3:40:32 PM

Bobby got easy words

Probably a built in minority bonus

11/7/2011 3:41:02 PM

3000 even

11/7/2011 3:41:27 PM

2680

11/7/2011 3:41:32 PM

ah. just slowed down to think about some and jumped up to near 3,000.

damn rushing.

11/7/2011 3:41:37 PM

^ Also had 3020.

11/7/2011 3:42:28 PM

got 2940

Droll threw me for a loop completely. Droll just sounds boring. complete opposite of what i thought.

Viable: Possible (Easier)
Tenacity: Persistence (Easier)
Soiree: Party (Harder)
Senescence: Aging (Hardest)
Effervescent: Bubbly (Medium)
Specious: False (Harder)
Droll: Comical (Medium) Your Answer: Dull
Errant: Improper (Medium)
Soporific: Drowsy (Harder) Your Answer: Heavenly
Translucent: Clear (Easier)

11/7/2011 3:43:18 PM

3300

Propagate: Publicize (Harder)
Laud: Praise (Medium)
-> yeah that was a guess
Levity: Humor (Medium) Your Answer: Justice
Fetish: Obsession (Easier)
Lament: Mourn (Medium)
Providence: Prudence (Harder)
-> I don't know if this was a guess or not... it just sounded right
Formidable: Impressive (Easier)
Flamboyant: Flashy (Easier)
Promulgate: Announce (Harder)
Recrudescence: Renewal (Hardest)
-> guess

Conclusion: I'm not that good.

11/7/2011 3:43:20 PM

3820 with a couple guesses

Parody: Spoof (Easier)
Fatuous: Ridiculous (Harder)
Facile: Easy (Harder)
Peer: Equal (Easier)
Inference: Conclusion (Medium)
Indignant: Angry (Medium)
Pathetic: Pitiful (Easier)
Indigenous: Native (Medium)
Facade: Front (Harder)
Farrago: Assortment (Hardest)

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 3:45 PM. Reason : .]

11/7/2011 3:44:47 PM

ya slowing down and not rushing helps. upped my score.

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 3:47 PM. Reason : 3040]

11/7/2011 3:45:00 PM

Boy AC Slater, you must be sporific because your answers are droll as shit.

11/7/2011 3:45:32 PM

Quote :

"ya slowing down having providence and not rushing helps. upped my score. "

11/7/2011 3:46:29 PM

haha same score again, man, that one i missed looks like some made up ass word.

Final Score: 3280 Points!

Intuitive: Perceptive (Easier)
Ensue: Follow (Harder)
Eleemosynary: Charitable (Hardest) Your Answer: Modern
Ennui: Boredom (Harder)
Gall: Nerve (Medium)
Enmity: Hostility (Harder)
Flaccid: Limp (Medium)
Intrigue: Interest (Easier)
Fray: Battle (Medium)
Insurrection: Rebellion (Easier)


one more time: Final Score: 3320 Points!

Sentiment: Emotion (Easier)
Judicious: Sensible (Harder)
Juxtaposition: Contrast (Harder)
Jejune: Childish (Harder)
Lagniappe: Bonus (Hardest) Your Answer: Fantasy
Rectify: Correct (Medium)
Shenanigans: Horseplay (Easier)
Queue: Line (Medium)
Relinquish: Surrender (Medium)
Secular: Nonreligious (Easier)

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 3:51 PM. Reason : 7 years of french helped me guess correctly for a couple of 'em (ennui and jejune)]

11/7/2011 3:48:53 PM

Quote :

"Jejune"

wow, completely new one on me

up to 3280!

11/7/2011 3:50:28 PM

2980 the second time

11/7/2011 3:50:46 PM

Quote :

"MADE UP ASS WORD"

11/7/2011 3:51:14 PM

3200

Got easy ones though

Perception: Insight (Easier)
Inordinate: Excessive (Medium)
Perseverance: Persistence (Easier)
Febrile: Feverish (Hardest) Your Answer: Tough
Innate: Natural (Medium)
Fervent: Passionate (Harder)
Inquisitive: Curious (Medium)
Feign: Pretend (Harder)
Perceive: See (Easier)
Fervor: Excitement (Harder)

11/7/2011 3:54:42 PM

and i'm done after this one. Easiest words yet.

Final Score: 3720 Points!

Preeminent: Outstanding (Easier)
Macabre: Horrifying (Medium)
Halcyon: Happy (Harder)
Gasconade: Boasting (Hardest)
Motif: Pattern (Medium)
Ponder: Consider (Easier)
Precarious: Dangerous (Easier)
Gregarious: Sociable (Harder)
Manifestation: Indication (Medium)
Guile: Trickery (Harder)

11/7/2011 3:55:40 PM

Took 3 times, this was my best

Final Score: 3760 Points!
Subordinate: Inferior (Easier)
Rogue: Uncontrollable (Medium)
Succinct: Brief (Easier)
Livid: Angry (Harder)
Reverie: Daydreaming (Medium)
Neoteric: Modern (Hardest)
Subservient: Submissive (Easier)
Lithe: Graceful (Harder)
Loquacious: Talkative (Harder)
Respite: Rest (Medium)

11/7/2011 4:37:33 PM

Quote :

"Final Score: 2540 Points! "

Quote :

"Final Score: 2740 Points! "

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM. Reason : took it twice]

11/7/2011 4:41:29 PM

3540 on the first go

Quote :

"Proselytize: Convert (Medium) Your Answer: Remind Prerequisite: Requirement (Medium) Turgid: Swollen (Harder) Attribute: Quality (Easier) Propriety: Appropriateness (Medium) Tocsin: Warning (Hardest) Unequivocal: Certain (Harder) Breach: Violation (Easier) Umbrage: Offense (Harder) Cache: Stockpile (Easier)"

11/7/2011 4:44:51 PM

3700 on the first try!

Quote :

"ya slowing down and not rushing helps. upped my score."

Only if you were missing words to start with.

11/7/2011 4:49:47 PM

3840 on the second go; I don't really get how they classify these difficulty-wise. Ergo is harder?

Quote :

" Emolument: Salary (Hardest) Legitimate: Legal (Easier) Lucrative: Profitable (Easier) Kindred: Alike (Easier) Grandiose: Large (Medium) Glean: Gather (Medium) Ersatz: Fake (Harder) Gratuitous: Unnecessary (Medium) Ergo: Therefore (Harder) Erratic: Irregular (Harder) "

11/7/2011 4:52:09 PM

Took it four times so I could beat everybody.

3880:

Dolorous: Sorrowful (Hardest)
Dissonance: Conflict (Harder)
Domicile: Home (Harder)
Impede: Hinder (Easier)
Expedient: Practical (Medium)
Implement: Enforce (Easier)
Explicit: Specific (Medium)
Imperative: Essential (Easier)
Ethereal: Airy (Medium)
Dogma: Ideology (Harder)

4200 is the daily high score.

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM. Reason : I think 4200 is if you get all the questions right in one second. I'm gonna do it!]

11/7/2011 4:57:31 PM

How the fuck could anyone with a college education score in the teens or low 2000s? Y'all need to read more! A lot more! I hope you can do differential equations and multivariable calculus in your head. I'm not calling you dumb--I'm just saying that I don't see how you could go through that much education and not just accidentally learn more words than that.

I took it a second time and got like 3500 or something, and then a 3rd time where I completely fucked everything up...missed 2 words early on, and then just went slow and hardly even tried--STILL got a 2470.

11/7/2011 5:11:26 PM

My best was 3820.

11/7/2011 5:28:00 PM

Correct Answers

Revoke: Cancel (Easier)
Insolent: Rude (Harder)
Insipid: Dull (Harder) Your Answer: Tragic
Infrangible: Unbreakable (Hardest)
Revert: Return (Easier)
Insouciance: Indifference (Harder)
Righteous: Honorable (Easier)
Prone: Inclined (Medium)
Procure: Acquire (Medium)
Progeny: Child (Medium)

3360




[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 5:43 PM. Reason : ,]

11/7/2011 5:32:41 PM

Read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up yo vocab

11/7/2011 5:34:40 PM

Up to 3940 now:

Morbid: Gruesome (Easier)
Eviscerate: Gut (Harder)
Extirpate: Destroy (Hardest)
Nuisance: Annoyance (Easier)
Idiom: Phrase (Medium)
Hyperbole: Exaggeration (Medium)
Monetary: Financial (Easier)
Etiology: Origin (Harder)
Espouse: Embrace (Harder)
Ilk: Sort (Medium)

I got all of them in 9 seconds...except for 3, which I got in 8 seconds. If I'd gotten them all in 9, then I think I would have scored a 4000.

So it turns out there's no way I can get to 4200. Even if I attached a mouse to my laptop, either my brain or my hand wouldn't move fast enough to get any of them in less than a second (let alone all of them). That's insane!

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 5:49 PM. Reason : "in x seconds" = "with x seconds remaining" ]

11/7/2011 5:40:33 PM

yeah, you would have to be insanely mentally and physically quick, AND get the right set of words.

11/7/2011 6:17:31 PM

Correct Answers:

Oleaginous: Oily (Hardest)
Moribund: Dying (Harder)
Synopsis: Summary (Medium)
Tenuous: Uncertain (Easier)
Taut: Tight (Easier)
Tangible: Touchable (Easier)
Supersede: Replace (Medium)
Substantive: Considerable (Medium)
Monolithic: Massive (Harder)
Mote: Speck (Harder)

Final Score: 3940 Points!

[Edited on November 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM. Reason : gonna hold pat there me thinks]

11/7/2011 6:51:57 PM

i invariably find myself taking this quiz once or twice every few weeks, and i'm generally mid to upper 3000s. this time it was:

Final Score: 3360 Points!

1. Erudite: Scholarly (Harder)
2. Hierarchy: Ranking (Medium)
3. Mentor: Guide (Easier)
4. Hiatus: Break (Medium)
5. Gullible: Trusting (Medium)
6. Erstwhile: Former (Harder) Your Answer: Longtime
7. Maneuver: Move (Easier)
8. Eschew: Avoid (Harder)
9. Enervate: Weaken (Hardest)
10. Mandatory: Required (Easier)

11/7/2011 6:59:57 PM

is it sad i knew moribund because of a video game ?!?!

11/7/2011 7:01:40 PM

11/8/2011 1:59:17 AM

OMG, I'ma be up all night trying to top that!

They invited you to join the leaderboard!

11/8/2011 2:06:46 AM

Final Score: 2540 Points!

Correct Answers:
Cynosure: Guide (Hardest) Your Answer: Lie
Fidelity: Faithfulness (Easier)
Disparage: Belittle (Medium)
Disseminate: Spread (Medium)
Consternation: Dismay (Harder) Your Answer: Regret
Corroborate: Confirm (Harder)
Forlorn: Lonesome (Easier)
Duress: Pressure (Medium)
Flabbergasted: Shocked (Easier)
Corollary: Result (Harder)

11/8/2011 2:41:32 AM

^I think regret is a perfectly fine response for consternation. I'm routinely dismayed by regret!

11/8/2011 3:56:20 AM

Quote :

"So...words with friends, with no friends Fuck it"

lol

11/8/2011 12:55:14 PM

Final Score: 2800 Points

Reminisce: Remember (Easier)
Indigent: Poor (Harder)
Pensive: Thoughtful (Medium)
Imprimatur: Approval (Hardest) Your Answer: Population
Rendition: Performance (Easier)
Perennial: Lasting (Medium)
Renowned: Famous (Easier)
Peripheral: Supplemental (Medium)
Inchoate: Unorganized (Harder)
Inane: Meaningless (Harder)

I am okay with missing "Imprimatur". I guessed the shit out of "Inchoate"

11/8/2011 1:08:01 PM

Quote :

"How the fuck could anyone with a college education score in the teens or low 2000s? Y'all need to read more! A lot more! I hope you can do differential equations and multivariable calculus in your head. I'm not calling you dumb--I'm just saying that I don't see how you could go through that much education and not just accidentally learn more words than that. I took it a second time and got like 3500 or something, and then a 3rd time where I completely fucked everything up...missed 2 words early on, and then just went slow and hardly even tried--STILL got a 2470."

You are worse than an ignoramus. You are an educated asshole.

Just above, here are some words from a 2540 score.

Cynosure: Guide (Hardest) Your Answer: Lie
Consternation: Dismay (Harder) Your Answer: Regret

Oh, these stupid people we graduated without teaching cynosure and consternation! What ever is the world coming to?! They need to read a book, which would... totally teach them such words.

Srsly, go die. The only thing wrong in this thread is all the lurkers who're going to be thinking how bad it is that they didn't score a 3000 on their first try due to the standard internet ego inflation.

11/8/2011 1:10:25 PM

Correct Answers:

Chagrin: Embarrassment (Medium)
Deft: Skillful (Easier)
Fallacious: Inaccurate (Harder)
Derogatory: Insulting (Easier)
Circumvent: Avoid (Medium)
Paradoxical: Contradictory (Harder)
Cavalier: Unconcerned (Medium)
Pique: Arouse (Harder)
Desolate: Lonely (Easier)
Compunctious: Regretful (Hardest)


3920

11/8/2011 1:24:12 PM

Quote :

"Oh, these stupid people we graduated without teaching cynosure and consternation! What ever is the world coming to?! They need to read a book, which would... totally teach them such words."

I'll agree with you on cynosure, but consternation is used regularly in literature I thought.

11/8/2011 1:26:23 PM

my biggest downfall in these games were using definitions/synonyms that I don't typically use that word for. I don't have a good example, but in a rush (trying to keep low times), i'll scan through quickly and not see the primary (in my sense) definition/word I'm looking for, and i'll quickly choose something similar; unfortunately, within the list there is a "better" word that is the answer. still need to slow down and think about some i guess.

here's a better question, smart people... what's your lowest score

[Edited on November 8, 2011 at 2:17 PM. Reason : .]

11/8/2011 2:10:21 PM

Ok, everyone take the words you're curious about and do Google NGrams on them.

Consternation:

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=consternation&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3

Don't know if graph will work:



It occurs far more often than incredulous but far less than providence. Much more common than I expected, but apparently I never read the books that use it.

[Edited on November 8, 2011 at 2:30 PM. Reason : ]

11/8/2011 2:28:19 PM