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THE RIGHT ONE: HOW MANY OF THESE 100 WORDS DO YOU KNOW?

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THE RIGHT ONE: HOW MANY OF THESE 100 WORDS DO YOU KNOW?


[+] ballot by Kiki
ACTIVE Sun Jun 03, 07 - Sun Jul 27, 08

I forgot to add the words to my last ballot so I wiped it ... let's try this again!

American Heritage Dictionary came out with a list of 100 words every high school graduate should know. How many do you, for sure, know the definitions of?

The list of words (some I had to break up because B&W said it was too long to post)

abjure abrogate abstemious acumen antebellum
auspicious belie bellicose bowd - lerize
chicanery chromosome churlish circum - locution
circumnavigate deciduous deleterious diffident
enervate enfranchise epiphany equinox euro
evanescent expurgate facetious fatuous feckless
fiduciary filibuster gamete gauche gerrymander
hegemony hemoglobin homogeneous hubris hypotenuse
impeach incognito in - controvertible
inculcate infrastructure interpolate irony jejune
kinetic kowtow laissez faire lexicon loquacious
lugubrious metamorphosis mitosis moiety nano - technology nihilism nomenclature nonsectarian
notarize obsequious oligarchy omnipotent
orthography oxidize parabola paradigm parameter
pecuniary photo - synthesis plagiarize plasma
polymer precipitous quasar quotidian recapitulate
reciprocal reparation respiration sanguine
soliloquy subjugate suffragist supercilious
tautology taxonomy tectonic tempestuous
thermo - dynamics totalitarian unctuous
usurp vacuous vehement vortex winnow wrought
xenophobe yeoman ziggurat

1-10
11-20
21-35
36-50
51-65
66-80
I'm a freak: 81-99
I'm a liar: All of them!
I admit it, none of them
SORRY, THIS POLL
IS NOW CLOSED.

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COMMENTS:
Voted : 51-65
There were others I think I know but I'm not 100% sure - I know these for certain:

1. acumen
2. antebellum
3. chromosome
4. circumnavigate
5. deciduous
6. deleterious
7. enfranchise
8. epiphany
9. equinox
10. euro
11. facetious
12. filibuster
13. gamete
14. gerrymander
15. hemoglobin
16. homogeneous
17. hypotenuse
18. impeach
19. incognito
20. infrastructure
21. irony
22. kinetic
23. laissez faire
24. metamorphosis
25. mitosis
26. nihilism
27. nomenclature
28. notarize
29. omnipotent
30. oxidize
31. parabola
32. paradigm
33. parameter
34. photosynthesis
35. plagiarize
36. plasma
37. polymer
38. quasar
39. reciprocal
40. reparation
41. respiration
42. soliloquy
43. subjugate
44. suffragist
45. supercilious
46. taxonomy
47. tectonic
48. tempestuous
49. thermodynamics
50. totalitarian
51. usurp
52. vacuous
53. vehement
54. vortex
55. wrought
56. xenophobe
by Kiki on Sun Jun 03, 07 7:14pm [+]

Sorry, its not that difficult a list. I know all of them and I am not a liar.
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Sun Jun 03, 07 7:23pm [+]

Voted : I'm a freak: 81-99
I've gotten this one before, from one of my Yahu- eh, Yahoo groups. The only word I didn't know was "jejune". Still don't know what it is...

"intellectually unsatisfying; shallow". Makes sense that I wouldn't know what it was.
by Truthseeker013 on Sun Jun 03, 07 7:37pm [+]

Not every one, I have to think on some of them.
This may not be that difficult a list but according to recent studies of how much most people read after we're through with school I have to doubt the average mall employee would know more than ten of them. I've read two dictionaries front to back (no kidding, I was crazy for a while) but I'd still have to search my brain for some of these definitions. I took Latin so that helps too.
by Jyl on Sun Jun 03, 07 8:50pm [+]

Voted : I'm a freak: 81-99
I'm a word nerd.
by forgetmenot on Sun Jun 03, 07 11:06pm [+]

Voted : I'm a liar: All of them!
All of them. Not lying either. Read some Robert E Howard and Robert Jordan, they used a lot of those words.
by Guest User from [59.190.65.197] on Sun Jun 03, 07 11:21pm [+]

Voted : I'm a freak: 81-99
I'm not a liar, and I know all of them except ziggurat. And now, I know that. These are truly not particularly difficult words, most all of them are found during an ordinary education.
by margaret123 on Mon Jun 04, 07 10:49am [+]

Voted : 51-65
54. But I haven't graduated high school yet so that's my excuse/reason.
by Gnomehunter1 on Mon Jun 04, 07 5:09pm [+]

Voted : I'm a freak: 81-99
I know almost all of them
but then I'm non-American.
by aplmac on Tue Jun 05, 07 10:00am [+]

Voted : 51-65
Jappy, logging out and making a comment as a guest user, then logging back in and approving it is against the rules as far as I know. How am I to know you approved that guest choice? You should know not to approve repeat answer choices, so why are you crying over getting a -1 for doing just that? Iraq fucked up your head or something, you seriously have some issues man. Sorry that happened for you.
by Kiki on Mon Jun 18, 07 10:21pm [+]

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