{"id":2333,"date":"2003-03-12T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=349"},"modified":"2010-05-09T10:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T13:01:04","slug":"schmies-vocabulary-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/12\/schmies-vocabulary-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmies Vocabulary Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reflectivesurface.com\/weblog-br\/archives\/001046.php\">Superf\u00edcie Reflexiva<\/a> pointed me at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~miyaguch\/schmies.html\">Schmies Vocabulary Test<\/a>, which I of course had to take immediately.<\/p>\n<p>This test consists of 200 obscure word pairs which are either (almost) the same or (almost) opposite in meaning. I got 184 right (16 errors), putting me at #15 in the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~miyaguch\/top_scores.html\">&#8220;Top 100&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the pairs I got wrong:<\/p>\n<p>11. adminicular\/corroborative<\/p>\n<p>16. tempestuous\/halcyon<\/p>\n<p>18. busybody\/quidnunc<\/p>\n<p>42. weaken\/enervate<\/p>\n<p>46. truckle\/withstand<\/p>\n<p>65. hebetate\/blunt<\/p>\n<p>84. nimiety\/paucity<\/p>\n<p>96. precocial\/altricial<\/p>\n<p>109. Croesus\/Dives<\/p>\n<p>115. concave\/gibbous<\/p>\n<p>146. diaphoretic\/sudorific<\/p>\n<p>152. apopemptic\/valedictory<\/p>\n<p>153. prospective\/quondam<\/p>\n<p>161. litotes\/meiosis<\/p>\n<p>169. extended\/compendious<\/p>\n<p>174. telamones\/atlantes<\/p>\n<p>and I must say that 42, 46, 115 and 169 I should have gotten right, but I was in a hurry&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_rolleyes.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_rolleyes.gif\" \/> the other pairs comprise words I&#8217;d never heard before. On the other hand, I guessed 6 other such pairs right, where I could reason from cognates in other languages.<\/p>\n<p>In my defense, I didn&#8217;t have a classical education (meaning, no Greek or Latin)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronaldo of Superf\u00edcie Reflexiva pointed me at the Schmies Vocabulary Test, which I of course had to take immediately. This test consists of 200 obscure word pairs which are either (almost) the same or (almost) opposite in meaning. I got 184 right (16 errors), putting me at #15 in the site&#8217;s &#8220;Top 100&#8221;. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tests"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}