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Test of vocabulary: How many meanings of the words in the paragraph below?



 
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Test of vocabulary: How many meanings of the words in the paragraph below? #1 (permalink) Fri Mar 28, 2008 11:46 am   Test of vocabulary: How many meanings of the words in the paragraph below?
 

Well! This is a test of your vocabulary.

How many of you know the meanings of all the words in the paragraph below?

Don't look them up now :-)

"Voilą! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-ą-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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Test of vocabulary: How many meanings of the words in the paragraph below? #2 (permalink) Fri Mar 28, 2008 18:21 pm   Test of vocabulary: How many meanings of the words in the paragraph below?
 

I didn't know eleven words plus one that my dictionary couldn't match - 'vichyssoise'. This, I guess, means I suck. xD

P.S. Though I am pretty much convinced the average Joe doesn't know most of them.

P.S.2 A random passage, be it from a movie or a book, cannot be a measurement for one's language mastery.

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