Even If You Are Confident In Your English Vocabulary, You Will Probably Make More Than 5 Mistakes In This Trivia
We all come across words we have never heard in books or movies, especially if English is not your mother tongue. However, the words listed in this trivia are truly never heard of. If you have ever heard these words before, better yet, if you have ever used them in your daily life, congratulations, you probably think you are better than everyone, and it might actually be true. Please note that words have different meanings, and each question only asks for a specific meaning of the word. 🤓
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This was much harder than I expected. Quite a few words I was unfamiliar with. Even still, it was enjoyable. 13/20
"Oomph" is the sound you make when you get hit in the stomach. It is NOT an exclamation of pleasure. Unless you have some pretty unusual tastes.
I’ve always understood it as adding some energy to something “put some oomph into it”
Load More Replies...62, totally English since the year dot, been on Countdown, and I only got 13 :( Certainly we've only ever used schadenfreude. Zonk, in the form zonked, is more commonly used to mean "very tired", as in "I was completely zonked out".
Bibble labeled as a noun then the definition says its a verb. Some of the acceptable definitions are not correct.
Got harder. Good challenge. But "bibble" is incorrect. As I learned fact-checking, a bibble is a Barbie-universe creature whose name is derived from "bibere," which is Latin for "to drink," but that is not an English word. In English, "bibble" means a small bump or pebble, or to impart a bump surface as you might do by paving with pebbles.
I think people use schadenfreude rather than whatever Greek/Latin word that was mentioned here, for describing deriving pleasure from others' failure/pain.
Schadenfreude is indeed a synonym for epicaricacy, and is WAY more commonly used. A lot of these words are archaic, obscure, or not in common usage any more. As an English major with an English degree, it was a little frustrating, because the whole trivia set felt a little misleading and as if the trivia-writer was trying to be smug about finding the most obscure words possible to use.
Load More Replies...16/20. A couple of lucky guesses in there. It should make it clearer that a hullabaloo is *a* fuss (as in a commotion) rather than fuss as a verb.
I've always thought of it as a noisy fuss too. As in "Hey, what's all the hullabaloo? Keep it down!"
Load More Replies...I was a bit confused that some words were defined as a noun but then all the options were about feeling something or behaving in certain ways. I was confused because I thought that nouns refered to things and not as descriptions for behaviours. But that could just be my weird brain forgetting how grammar works. 🤷♀️
17/20. I enjoy learning new words, but was surprised at "zonk". I use it to mean tired or deeply asleep, as in "zonked out".
I use kerfuffle frequently just because I like it. "Oomph" has a lot of different meanings associated with it, but none that I know are associated with pleasure, ymmv.
17/20 Some of them were guesses or processes of elimination. Others I knew already for some odd reasons or other.
I do not use "oomph" in the same way as the quiz. Besides, all these words are made up.
Bibble is too cute of a word for something so heinous as drink or eat noisily! 9/20 but English is not my first language 😅
Still, that’s impressive! I’m a native English speaker and I only got 13/20 on my first try. Keep learning! There’s never nothing new to learn about any subject, and language is no exception.
Load More Replies...Is anyone only seeing part of the word on their screen? I thought that was part of the test, that you had to guess what the word was when you don't even get the first two letters.. I'm looking at this on a device, held vertically, and the first one and a half to two letters of each of the big blue word is cut off. Definitely makes this more challenging.
19/20 I'm pretty sure bibble is a word Blackadder used to try to get out of the first world war!
Unfortunately not XD A lot of these are archaic words or words that were only used regionally. IMO this "trivia" was a little unfair in that regard.
Load More Replies...I think it's not slang, but older words that aren't used much anymore.
Load More Replies...This was much harder than I expected. Quite a few words I was unfamiliar with. Even still, it was enjoyable. 13/20
"Oomph" is the sound you make when you get hit in the stomach. It is NOT an exclamation of pleasure. Unless you have some pretty unusual tastes.
I’ve always understood it as adding some energy to something “put some oomph into it”
Load More Replies...62, totally English since the year dot, been on Countdown, and I only got 13 :( Certainly we've only ever used schadenfreude. Zonk, in the form zonked, is more commonly used to mean "very tired", as in "I was completely zonked out".
Bibble labeled as a noun then the definition says its a verb. Some of the acceptable definitions are not correct.
Got harder. Good challenge. But "bibble" is incorrect. As I learned fact-checking, a bibble is a Barbie-universe creature whose name is derived from "bibere," which is Latin for "to drink," but that is not an English word. In English, "bibble" means a small bump or pebble, or to impart a bump surface as you might do by paving with pebbles.
I think people use schadenfreude rather than whatever Greek/Latin word that was mentioned here, for describing deriving pleasure from others' failure/pain.
Schadenfreude is indeed a synonym for epicaricacy, and is WAY more commonly used. A lot of these words are archaic, obscure, or not in common usage any more. As an English major with an English degree, it was a little frustrating, because the whole trivia set felt a little misleading and as if the trivia-writer was trying to be smug about finding the most obscure words possible to use.
Load More Replies...16/20. A couple of lucky guesses in there. It should make it clearer that a hullabaloo is *a* fuss (as in a commotion) rather than fuss as a verb.
I've always thought of it as a noisy fuss too. As in "Hey, what's all the hullabaloo? Keep it down!"
Load More Replies...I was a bit confused that some words were defined as a noun but then all the options were about feeling something or behaving in certain ways. I was confused because I thought that nouns refered to things and not as descriptions for behaviours. But that could just be my weird brain forgetting how grammar works. 🤷♀️
17/20. I enjoy learning new words, but was surprised at "zonk". I use it to mean tired or deeply asleep, as in "zonked out".
I use kerfuffle frequently just because I like it. "Oomph" has a lot of different meanings associated with it, but none that I know are associated with pleasure, ymmv.
17/20 Some of them were guesses or processes of elimination. Others I knew already for some odd reasons or other.
I do not use "oomph" in the same way as the quiz. Besides, all these words are made up.
Bibble is too cute of a word for something so heinous as drink or eat noisily! 9/20 but English is not my first language 😅
Still, that’s impressive! I’m a native English speaker and I only got 13/20 on my first try. Keep learning! There’s never nothing new to learn about any subject, and language is no exception.
Load More Replies...Is anyone only seeing part of the word on their screen? I thought that was part of the test, that you had to guess what the word was when you don't even get the first two letters.. I'm looking at this on a device, held vertically, and the first one and a half to two letters of each of the big blue word is cut off. Definitely makes this more challenging.
19/20 I'm pretty sure bibble is a word Blackadder used to try to get out of the first world war!
Unfortunately not XD A lot of these are archaic words or words that were only used regionally. IMO this "trivia" was a little unfair in that regard.
Load More Replies...I think it's not slang, but older words that aren't used much anymore.
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