Each week, Talk Wordy to Me challenges readers to beat the word nerd in a quiz challenge and post their scores in the comments.
Another quiz from Encarta this week. Ten obscure words are used in three sentences each, and you have to pick which sentence the word is used correctly in. Some are much more obscure than others, I thought.
Here’s the quiz. I got a 7 out of 10.
so, I too got a 7 out of 10. However, I’m thinking that nixie was perfectly interchangeable with “nymph”, and so I’ll say that’s why I missed that one.
8/10! It was mostly dumb luck, though, so don’t feel bad.
5. And I don’t think I even deserve much credit for doing as poorly as that, I mean, since when was ‘rigmarole’ obscure?
I got 8. Now I want to find an excuse to use “vug” in conversation (I got that one wrong).