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Can You Pass This Basic True/False SAT Word Quiz?
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Zoe Samuel
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There are more words in common use in the English language than in the vast majority of languages, with current versions of the dictionary clocking in a little north of 170,000 words. You can't possibly know all of them, and in a normal day, you probably only use a couple thousand different words at most - and overwhelmingly, most of us limit the majority of our speech to the most popular 1,000 words in the language on a normal day. It's surprisingly easy to stay within just those words if you want to make a game of it, though it does get old eventually. After all, you can enjoy a lot of nuance and variety by taking a stroll through the other 169,000 words, no matter how daunting their numbers may be.
However, the SAT has no time for any concerns about there simply being too many words to know them. You just have to figure it out. Of course, the framing of SAT questions is usually designed to give you no help whatsoever, so you're relying entirely on a combination of brute force learning, etymological knowledge, intuition, and vaguely remembering that time your aunt might have used a similar word and you asked her what she meant.
How much of all that have you retained in the intervening years? It's time to find out!
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