Vocabulary Test 2 Is Live!

It was about time to release another one of our tests, right? We are going back to the vocabulary test, with 20 new words. If you have been reading the blog for a while, you shouldn’t have a problem scoring a 100%! We covered all the words in the past, inside the Word of the Day column.

Daily Writing Tips Vocabulary Test

Here is a teaser:

1. Befuddle means:

  • to harass
  • to threaten
  • to confuse
  • to insult

Click here to go to the Vocabulary Test 2 page. Ah, and don’t forget to let us know your score with a comment below.

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18 Responses to “Vocabulary Test 2 Is Live!”

  1. Koen on October 23, 2008 12:29 pm

    85%, not bad for a non-english speaker :-)

  2. Jen on October 23, 2008 1:05 pm

    Got a 90%. :) Good start to the day.

  3. Yaniv on October 23, 2008 1:08 pm

    Got 85, but I have to admit that I wasn’t totally sure in some of my apparently correct answers.

  4. Hayley on October 23, 2008 1:22 pm

    80% for me. Not too bad.

  5. Anitra on October 23, 2008 1:23 pm

    90%. Thanks for the test, it’s a nice way to get my brain started before work. :)

  6. Brad K. on October 23, 2008 1:59 pm

    Looks like 85%. I guess my Avatar should bea Bourgeois bromide.

  7. jeremy on October 23, 2008 2:45 pm

    I’ll be the low hanging fruit – 75%.

  8. WordPorn on October 23, 2008 4:07 pm

    Yay, vocabulary! I did so-so. For a girl with language lust, I should have done better. Will have to ramp up the vocab lessons on my site…

  9. thebluebird11 on October 23, 2008 4:38 pm

    “My freelance writing experience was one reason why I was hired.”

    A reason is THAT, not WHY. “My freelance writing experience was one reason THAT I was hired.”

    I got an 85…and in the medical field (my field), a stigma (or stigmata, plural) is usually the definitive mark of some disease, disease process, abnormality etc. In that sense it is usually construed to be something negative, even as a positive finding.

    I enjoy the challenge of the vocabulary tests…hoping to keep my mind sharp (or as sharp as it can be, LOL).

  10. Nick on October 23, 2008 5:12 pm

    90% I’m not ashamed that I didn’t know teraflop, but I could argue that if I don’t understand a problem, it could be either fuzzy or muddy.

  11. Daniel Scocco on October 23, 2008 7:57 pm

    OK, I changed muddy.

  12. tmg on October 23, 2008 8:20 pm

    Fun ~ But, I should have scored higher…

  13. --Deb on October 23, 2008 10:14 pm

    How was #3 a vocabulary question? To me, that was a history question, and a confusing one at that, because, well, they’re STILL building Gothic buildings all over the world!

    Oh, and I didn’t know teraflop, either, but, well, technology!

  14. Britt on October 24, 2008 12:15 am

    Woo! I got an 80.
    Not exactly a hundred, but pretty good.

  15. richard on October 24, 2008 1:56 am

    I only got 70% but enjoyed the test as it gave me an idea for teaching my chinese friends. I can give them the test and discuss the answers.

    Maybe your next test could be a slight variation:ask to chose te odd-man- out. Use five alternatives, only one answer incorrect.

    I thought trudge was to wade through water noisily and like (as )the others above did not know teraflop.

    A grammar inquiry connection would be appreciated as my chinese friends ask me questions I cannot answer orI feel unsure about my answers. Thank you Maotouying

  16. Daniel Scocco on October 24, 2008 8:25 am

    @Deb, number 3 is vocabulary because it is related to the meaning of the word Gothic.

  17. Allison on November 18, 2008 2:28 am

    In one of the questions, euphemism was the correct answer, but the adjective preceding the blank was “an”? Would “an euphemism” really be correct?

  18. spike1 on February 28, 2009 11:39 am

    An euphamism just screams wrongness.
    The rule is if the spoken word sounds like it begins with a vowel, you use an, if it doesn’t use a…

    Isn’t it?

    Egg *sounds* like it starts with an “e”, so “an egg”.
    Euphamism sounds like it starts with a y so it should be “a euphamism”?

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