About This Quiz
Do you think you have a gargantuan vocabulary? The English language has one of the largest vocabularies of any language due to its diverse roots. English is made up of a hodgepodge of languages: Germanic languages, Latin and Greek all influence it. When you combine them, you end up with a monstrous number of words.Â
English has over a million words, and many experts think it has the largest vocabulary on Earth, even though this is hard to prove. This is because in spoken languages, some words become obsolete over the centuries and are forgotten (or change,) while new ones are invented all the time. Many words have stayed the same, but their meanings have changed over the centuries. English is unusually suited to this. In fact, over 1,700 of our common daily words were invented by William Shakespeare. These include words like "assassination" and "eyeball."Â
If you are an English language expert with an impressively Brobdingnagian vocabulary, put your language savvy to the ultimate test with this arduous quiz!Â
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