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How's your vocabulary?

It's asking what petcock means. As a man, I am very confident in how I would define that word. Alas, I don't see the apropriate answer in the 4 given.
 
Couldn't break 50. Yes, after a while you've had enough. I found that I couldn't be bothered to unwind the Latin and Greek derivations. A few seconds' thought would in many cases have done the trick.

Now my neck is stiff. But it was fun for a while, and I hope I really did donate some rice.
 
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I guess it shows that I haven't been in school for awhile. I was doing around 35... However I did get 2,000 grains of rice.

Pretty much all terms related to medicine and forensics I got right.


INRM
 
50 and gave up. I give credit to having read a lot of Stephen Donaldson.
 
Skeptic Guy said:
Only 42...got to work on it.
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But, but, but, that's the answer..................to life................the universe...............and everything!

Never got past 42 myself. Got there several times but then a wrong answer would knock be back to 38 or 39.
 
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My vocabulary? Its very big and very good... thats right, big and good.

Hmmm... wonder why I cant score more than 35.
 
hovering around the mid-upper 40s, mostly because I'm at work and tired. Surprised how many of the medical terms I knew, thanks to my wife; and my prediliction for Shakespeare as a youth did me good stead for the archaisms.
 
bruto said:
I didn't get that one. Last I knew a petcock is a water faucet, a drain valve, or something similar. What options did the test give?
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One of the answeres definitely had the word valve along with another word. I remember that much :)

Havn't been above level 42 yet :(
 
So far, nobody here has broken 50, which makes me wonder if there is a score above 50. I hit 50 a number of times, and maintained it for a while, with occasional dips down into the mid 40's. Recovery back to 50 was pretty quick, but once there, it seemed to stop or at least to slow down.
 
I didn't notice the level at first, then couldn't figure how it worked since I didn't think I'd answered _that_ many questions, then quit and read the rest of this thread.
So I had to play again. Got up to 44 fairly easily.
 
bruto said:
So far, nobody here has broken 50, which makes me wonder if there is a score above 50. I hit 50 a number of times, and maintained it for a while, with occasional dips down into the mid 40's. Recovery back to 50 was pretty quick, but once there, it seemed to stop or at least to slow down.
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The FAQ, where Elind's link goes, says "There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare for people to get above level 48."
 
On the FAQ page it says that there are 50 levels but it is rare for anyone to get past 48.

Edit: Bjornart beat me to it.
 
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Given that almost nobody read the FAQ (or so they seem to be hinting) I'm slightly surprised to see nobody claiming that they "hardly ever got more than about 52"
 
I'm pretty sure 50 is the maximum.

I level off at a mean of about 48. At 47, I know most of the words and usually quickly increase to 48. At 48, I get about two thirds right so I tend to go up or down from there at random (since one wrong answer drops you down, but three correct ones are needed to increase). At 49 and 50, I get about half or less correct, so it's a matter of lucky word choices or lucky guessing to avoid dropping quickly back down. However, I've managed to get occasional strings of 4 or 5 words correct at 50, with no increase to 51.

Respectfully,
Myriad

ETA: As Moopet points out, I too failed to RTFM.
 
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I'm thinking/hoping there must be some degree of "responder bias" going on here...
 
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