So /lit/, How big is your vocabulary and what is your backgr

18,800. Is this good

I dont think this is good

what are some alternative words for "good"

>>8988786
I got 25600. There were a lot of words I recognized but couldn't state a definition for.

I'm a stemfag though.

>>8988786

34,500

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

>>8988814
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.

>>8988842
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

>>8988814
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.

>>8988824
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

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for a non-native speaker it seems to be decent

29,800

21,500

>>8988867
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 4chan and there are a couple I think browse /lit/ 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

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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
>>8988880
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.

>>8988940
Using a Nazi hacker website as an educator. Shocking.

>>8988969
Why for life?

>>8989030
no degree = never getting that high paying non wage slave option
I'm in my 30a now, unless you were implying I neck myself

>>8988995
Ive read like 6 and you beat me by around 40,4000 words, that's not fair, why do i suck, should i kms

>>8989046
I wasn't.

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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.

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>>8989077
What's a non native doing writing a fucking book? Why not stick to your native language?

>>8989063
Not bad m8.

>>8989068
What kind of mental patient?

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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.

>>8989085
>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.

>>8989085
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.

>>8989114
Language?

>>8989115
Swedish.

>>8989118
Well that is a cringy and corny language. T. Finn

>>8988786
34,500 here. 22 year old drop-out.

36,800

>>8989118
How many words do you have for "Nubian"/"Black"/"Ebony" etc.?

>>8989204
Noice. Did you know their exact definitions? Also, background?

>>8989118
do you write in your cuckshed?

>>8989207
I wouldn't say EXACT definitions, but yes
I work in a factory

>>8989129
What did you drop out of?

37,300
Software Engineer

>>8989205
Not sure, at least over 5 I'd imagine.

>>8989217
Of course.

Didn't know I was on /pol/

>>8989234
You're on someone's pole. (Jamal's pole. You're Swedish.)

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>>8989236
You really got me good there mate. Keep it up.

>>8989229
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.

>>8989241
Always. And if it isn't me, it'll be someone else.

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

>>8988786
31,400
Holy shit, I wasn't expecting some these. Guess I should read more.

>>8989085
>What's a non-native doing writing a fucking book?
>Who is Salman Rushdie?

>>8989249
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.

>>8989275
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.

>>8989249
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!

>>8989249
>For fucks sake
>Cursing true patrician vocabulary
Calm thyself 'fore apoplexy take ye.

>>8988786

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

>>8989372
...holy...

>>8989275
Show off >:^(

>>8989356
Happy birthday bro, and good luck with that

24,800 college dropout

>>8989388
:(

>>8989394
Second this.

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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.

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>>8989490
Forgot the pic.

25,300
Neet

>>8988786
Isn't this test really easy for French speakers?

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>>8988786
Mmmm...

>>8988786
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.

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>>8988786
>http://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.

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Non-native STEMfriend, second year of uni

>>8989610
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.

>>8989394
>>8989470
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.

>>8989646
Any idea on why it's so high?

Size doesn't matter.

>>8989874
I read in four languages and got a habit of using dictionaries. Memory helps, also.

>>8989933

vocablet detected

>>8990177
Poor Anon. 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.

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27,400

fucking retard and high school dropout

I do write screenplay from time to time

>>8990204
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.

>>8988786
Am I correct in noting that I know a word, or definition, granted that in context I would understand?
25,400 here, non-native

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8000

>>8990368
No. How can you tell which words you'd know in context among the words you don't know?

>>8990335
Do you even actually know English legally at that point?

>>8990368
You are incorrect.
The definition of a word enables you to know what it means without a context. Do not collect words, pay $200.

>>8988786
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

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Native speaker, scientific education and career, languages hobbyist.

Latin helps. A lot.

>>8991246
Yes, so does ticking every box

>>8988786
>18400
I'm german though

>>8988940
>Also, I know quite a few of my students browse 4chan and there are a couple I think browse /lit/ 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.
so why the fuck did you post any of this then

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I'll take it—!

30600, non-native medicine student.

>>8991259
kek

20000
non-native

never had classes or visited an english speaking country.
guess it could be better but i'll take it

19,300

I am dissapoint

>>8991311
He knows his students aren't interested in testing their vocab.

>>8988786
20,500
South African, went to an English grammar school, university educated. Obviously I squandered a lot of my time.

>>8989481
underrated

>>8988786
I got 23,200. Non native with certified C2 level English.

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breddy good i think
never took an english class in my life

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Native speaker 19 y/o
only problem i had was the far right column

27,400
norski

29000 non-native C2 English, surprised how low the average for non-native speakers is.

I had trouble with lots of the seemingly made up words and especially the loanwords, because even though you can know what they mean in the language they're from, there's absolutely no guarantee they retain that meaning in English.

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>implicando that this isn't mostly about lying
>implicando that I wasn't lying
>implicando that you weren't, too

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is it bad for non-native?

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native speaker stem freshman, I read at a horrible rate (off/on, slow to begin another book, overlapping books and finishing neither, etc.) and have no confidence in my analysis
I think a lot of this is just down to what you did as a kid, when language stuff comes more naturally, I had few friends and would read whatever my library had, and even teen genre fiction slips in a few words you've never seen before. got an 800 on the sat for the same reason, despite being a moron by most counts

15,200

Non-native, high school dropout NEET

If you got more points than me you checked off words you have heard or seen but can't define without context.

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Non-native self-taught slav scum diploma-away sociology bachelor. Tbh i was expecting a tiny bit more, but i'll take it.

>Write down all words in the test
>Look up their definitions
>Profit

>>8990407
what if I don't know the dictionary(tm) definition but I can put the word into context?

>>8989481
10/10

I took the test about 12 hours ago and just only now remembered what a manacle was.

>>8989874
Recognize Greek and Latin roots is tremendously helpful.

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Am i the only one who got a ton of words with french roots?
Whatever, non-native and pretty proud of myself.

29,800

26 with degrees in Computer Science and Anthropology.

27,400 words.

Schizoid NEET turned late night security guard.

30,900

NEET. Dropped out of school for medical reasons at 13.

>>8989068
Also a mental patient. Spent December to September the next year committed a few years back. Just an outpatient now, though.

28,000

Brought up in a sub-30°N latitude. Too stupid to go to college. I fix electronics. I've been reading mostly science fiction stories for the last six months. I once took an online class focused especially on vocabulary building, but it didn't help here. However i did bag some technical words from my interests in travel literature, and one or two words from lurking /x/ for a couple years.

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>>8988786
I always read with a dictionary next to me, or on my Kobo. If there is a slight chance I don't understand the word fully, I look it up. Especially if it's a book I want to get the most out of. It's a bit of a habit. Anyone else read with a Dictionary next to them?

33,000
20 y/o, native speaker, English major.

>>8989105
oh shit, tell me some rare words

>>8988786
37100. Seems a little high but the GRE was only a few years ago, those flash cards are probably still within a halflife.

>>8989249
tenebrous is dark, bragadoccio is braggardlyness, pabulum is lukewarm crap, oneiromancy is dream-reading, and uxoricide is WIFEKILLING !!!!

>>8989829
I did, last time I used it was "...freshly-sparged pudenda"

>>8988786
>What is a thesaurus
>26,600
>21 year-old native 3rd year Comp Sci major
I read but I don't write enough. I figure that if I need to express my thoughts using a particular meaning, I'll just look up the best word for the job- if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Apparently I'm really good at general understanding with regards to reading, because I did well by whatever standards the SAT imposes.

30,600

what's especially interesting is that if you look in-depth at the stats, you see that the self-reported SAT scores show that, in general, all the people who take that test are in the top 2% of the US population. we're all gonna make it

Source:

http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2013-05-08-Native-speakers-in-greater-detail#newMainchartNative

>>8992911
Fancier words in English tend to have French roots due to French being spoken by the aristocracy.
It even comes out in the names for animals vs meat.
Cow/beef etc.

>>8988786
32,300

i have a BFA in film
and work in advertising

36,000

I dropped out of highschool. Really makes me think.

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>>8988786
26400. I have 2.5 degrees and an excellent job (STEM-focused tho). This is an indicator that I need to read more, pretty embarrassed desu senpai

26400

High school dropout

So what I have gathered is that education has absolutely no correlation to vocabulary. People who read more know more words, simple as that.

>>8992748
Same here, I got 36500 but I'm pretty fucking dumb. Likely has something to do with devouring dictionaries for fun as a child.

>>8988786
24,000
19, STEM, non-native

10700
Not native. Feels bad though

>>8994380
I'm impressed.

>>8988786
33,100

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>>8989085
Hey, it got Beckett a Nobel.

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>>8988786
Pretty good for a non-native I feel. But god damn, those words on the far right on the last part just sounds like gibberish.

>>8994610
He was a reptillian though.

>>8994428
>>8994380
Where are you from and do you know other languages?

Also miring at >>8994380

>>8988786
26400
I assume that is because I'm in my 30s

>>8994878
From Germany. Fluently English and German. Learning Chinese, French, Italian.

28,000

Retail wageslave, no degree, native, early 20s

>>8989085
A lot of authors find writing in a foreign language and then translating to your native is good.

>26,700

lower than I wanted but, hey, I'm only 19.

>2nd year uni, pizza delivery driver, know about as much Japanese as a 4 year old native akachan but studying abroad in a couple of months

>>8993005

got a dictionary app on my phone for this reason

"Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
42,800 words."
But given my background, I should be in the top percentiles. Native speaker, raised by a prof and teacher, read constantly throughout life, now in my 40s, with four degrees including a PhD in English Lit, and a decade teaching as an adjunct prof.

>>8997203
Are you a native speaker?

>>8988786
19 900

non native
dont live in a country where english is spoken as a first language

left out a couple i was 80% sure i knew but stuck to the instructions.

>>8997302
oh yeah
>college dropout

>>8997243
>research degree in literature
At least you know a lot of words, anon.

28.700
24, STEM, non-native

>>8989113
what is it?

27,100
18, Pre-University Course, non-native

How the fuck is this supposed to make its estimate?

>>8993005
I google the word on my phone.

6.5"

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Well, that made me feel retarded.

>>8989844
>loanwords.
This. English is a dumb language.

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jealous?

3,000
High school dropout

Best books for expanding your functional vocabulary? I want to be able to use the shit when I walk away from the book

>>8997798
seems odd jealous would be 1 of the 20 words you know.

What's the best way to increase vocabulary?

>>8998321
drink pineapple juice

>>8997677
I guess I'm just old fashioned.

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...

40,300.

>>8989249
Donald Trump used 'braggadocious.'

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>>8988786
18 year old, high schooler.

I do a lot of text RP online.

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>>8998396
Oh yeah,
disgraced English major with degree in financial limbo, work in low-level position at psych facility.

>>8988869
Me too anon, except I got 24,100

>>8989249
I got tricorne from watching Hornblower, and Oneiromancer from Witcher 3.

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God how terrible. I need to start flexing my vocab more often.

I read all the time, and I know how words are used in a sentence, but I don't know the specific definition off hand. I recognized most of the words, but realized I couldn't explain them well enough to say I "knew" them.

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>12,700

>>8989085
joseph conrad?

>>8998437
>disgraced
How so?

>>8998321
From the thread and the site: Read a lot of fiction with obscure words: Fantasy and highbrow.

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Italian living in Italy with American mother. She taught me English as I grew up. I read quite a bit but am not by any means immersed in the language. I wish my vocabulary was better but considering just a high school education in Italy i'm okay with the result.
But i'd like a longer test. This feels way to short to show an accurate representation

39,600
22 native speaker. I doubt it's truly this high, but I did read through a dictionary out of pure autistic obsession.

34'000

But the result is probably flawed since French is my first language and I know Latin. For example, I'm not sure I ever read "embonpoint" in English, but it is a common French word. Similarly, I had never read uxoricide before, but latin makes the meaning pretty obvious.

13,500
Considering I'm from a third world country and only 18 it's pretty good.

>>9001267
third world country where english isn't the native language