How Many English Words Do You Actually Know?

So you speak English, we know that. But do you know the meaning of all these words? Let's see if you're a real vocabulary expert!

Created by Johan Beornson The Ist

On Dec 26, 2018

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Definition: Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson.

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Definition: Still existing, surviving.

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Lubitorium

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Hibernacle

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Definition: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules.

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Vagarious

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Abusion

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Allegory

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Jargogle

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Bombilate

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Definition: Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

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Definition: A course, base, instinctive state of being.

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Definition: To be deciphered or understood only by a few.

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Knabble

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Definition: Bendable; Able to be manipulated without breaking.

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Emacity

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Definition: Wicked to an extreme, malicious.

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Definition: Having bounds, an ability to begin or end.

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Definition: "Tongue-in-cheek-advice" characterized by wit and pleasantry.

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Orgulous

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Definition: A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by "like" or "as".

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Definition: Fond of company, a social individual.

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Syntax

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Definition: Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components.

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Brontide

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Dignotion

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Definition: Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.

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Relexification

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Jiffle

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Definition: Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.

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How Many English Words Do You Actually Know?

How Many English Words Do You Actually Know?

So you speak English, we know that. But do you know the meaning of all these words? Let's see if you're a real vocabulary expert!

So you speak English, we know that. But do you know the meaning of all these words? Let's see if you're a real vocabulary expert!

Definition: Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson.

Practitioner

Didactic

Definition: Still existing, surviving.

Extant

Extinct

Lubitorium

A service station.

A lubricating device.

Hibernacle

The shell of a mollusk.

A winter retreat - Shelter for winter months.

Definition: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules.

Pediatric

Pedantic

Vagarious

Erratic or unpredictable in behavior or direction.

Gloating in a rude manner.

Abusion

Cut; bruise; open wound

Misuse; outrage; deception

Allegory

The abbreviation of several words into one using the first letter of each word, such as NASA.

The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.

Jargogle

To confuse or jumble.

To run underwater.

Bombilate

Loud humming or buzzing

To repeatedly bomb

Definition: Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

Pensive

Pliable

Definition: A course, base, instinctive state of being.

Valiant

Visceral

Definition: To be deciphered or understood only by a few.

Arcane

Ancient

Knabble

To dab an object into liquid, to lightly wet.

To take small bites or to nibble.

Definition: Bendable; Able to be manipulated without breaking.

Milieunous

Malleable

Emacity

A fondness of masculinity.

A Fondness for buying things.

Definition: Wicked to an extreme, malicious.

Nefarious

Pedantic

Definition: Having bounds, an ability to begin or end.

Finite

Fertile

Definition: "Tongue-in-cheek-advice" characterized by wit and pleasantry.

Fortuitous

Facetious

Orgulous

To be proud, haughty

To stare rudely

Definition: A word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by "like" or "as".

Onomatopoeia

Simile

Definition: Fond of company, a social individual.

Perceptive

Gregarious

Syntax

The study of the rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

The study of the origins of separate languages via interchangeable root words.

Definition: Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components.

Binary

Breach

Brontide

Vicious and repeated coastal rip tide.

Low rumbling akin to distant thunder.

Dignotion