Below is a test of English Vocabulary Competency. You are to look through each word in all 6 tables each consist of 100 words of four different level of difficulties. A word is considered known if you understand its prime meanings.

How to calculate your score?
Your score is the average number of words you know from each table multiply by a factor of 360. If the average number of words you know is 35, you get 12,600 points (see example below).

What does my score means?
0 – 5400 points : a school kid’s level of command of English.

5760 – 10,800 points : a lower secondary school children’s level of command of English, able to write simple and short essay.

11,160 – 16,200 points : an upper secondary school children’s level of command of English, able to write fictitious stories.

16,560 – 21,600 points : a college student’s level of command of English.

21,960 – 27,000 points : a university student’s level of command of English.

27,360 – 32,400 points : Excellent and outstanding level of command of English.

more than 32,400 points : Expert Professional Master in English.

Example : Joanne knows 26 words from Table 1, 30 words from Table 2, 22 words from Table 3, 28 words from Table 4, 32 words from Table 5 and  27 words from Table 6. Therefore the average number of words is (26 + 30 + 22 + 28 + 32 + 27) / 6 = 28 words. She scores 28 x 360 = 10,080 points.

TABLE 1

	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2	LEVEL 3	LEVEL 4
	.
1	abandon	abridge	abhorrent	aboulia
2	abroad	aggregate	abscissa	antinomy
3	alter	beverage	actuate	apocalyptic
4	ballot	biography	amorphous	bifurcate
5	barometer	biscuit	badinage	caracole
	.
6	binoculars	cardinal	bravura	carronade
7	chaos	credulous	cartel	cartouche
8	contraband	dandruff	comatose	chalybeate
9	daily	demolish	crustacean	croton
10	distinct	domicile	declivity	deleterious
	.
11	excavate	duodenal	demon	dorsal
12	expedition	facet	dendrite	dysphoria
13	fatigue	gratify	emaciated	elvan
14	festival	grueling	exordium	filemot
15	grotesque	humdrum	foible	halitosis
	.
16	harpoon	impulsive	galaxy	hebdomadal
17	horizon	impunity	geld	infusoria
18	jangle	industrious	heretical	isomer
19	laboratory	lore	hieroglyphic	linage
20	limit	meager	hybrid	moraine
	.
21	matinee	memorial	iconoclast	ortolan
22	maverick	nomadic	igneous	python
23	postulate	occidental	inchoate	quadrat
24	ratio	purchase	mercenary	rubric
25	stroke	shuttle	nomenclature	soutane

TABLE 2

	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2	LEVEL 3	LEVEL 4
	.
1	belfry	aquiline	aneroid	ablegate
2	bigoted	besiege	archive	algorism
3	bulge	botanist	beriberi	balsam
4	explosion	bronze	burlap	bergamot
5	hatchet	cauldron	cornice	bisque
	.
6	impact	cosmopolitan	echinoderm	brevier
7	impatient	diverge	ecology	circadian
8	javelin	gorge	henry	decuman
9	kangaroo	import	interfacial	deemster
10	landmass	interpose	laconic	elixir
	.
11	outlaw	lateral	linden	isomorphous
12	package	nebulous	maelstrom	jeton
13	parallel	nook	maxilla	misogamy
14	pirate	phantasm	medusa	noumenon
15	prowl	porous	mufti	obelisk
	.
16	referee	primitive	myrmidon	parataxis
17	reign	rampant	paradigm	paregoric
18	slant	renown	paragon	rachitic
19	software	restive	prolixity	schizophrenia
20	solo	taboo	redolent	sexagenarian
	.
21	terminate	territory	resurgent	syncretism
22	unique	tradition	séance	tanager
23	vivacious	urban	timbre	tanagra
24	waste	venereal	topology	urticant
25	weary	yeoman	vellum	velleity

 

TABLE 3

	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2	LEVEL 3	LEVEL 4
	.
1	abyss	adaptable	aclinic	bezel
2	ballad	capsule	babbler	corrugate
3	bole	daub	banshee	demitasse
4	canoe	denary	calculus	gault
5	canyon	embargo	eczema	hypnotism
	.
6	external	exterminate	gargantuan	illation
7	influx	furtive	gratuitous	jejunum
8	judo	garbage	hertz	keelson
9	lame	hub	hiatus	knap
10	ledger	infrastructure	homologous	lachrymal
	.
11	limpid	initiate	lamina	leat
12	magazine	jaded	languor	limnology
13	martyr	kaleidoscopic	largo	martingale
14	nexus	liberate	leverage	mithridatism
15	patriot	limelight	literati	mittimus
	.
16	patrol	lizard	medial	myopic
17	penetrate	memento	neurology	newton
18	pillage	mutual	obloquy	occipital
19	rental	naturalize	pantheon	perforate
20	resort	oblivion	patois	petrology
	.
21	riddle	obvious	pellagra	prunella
22	swerve	password	refulgence	rabid
23	vanish	rhythm	savoury	ratline
24	varnish	stoppage	triolet	umbilical
25	yoke	stratagem	valetudinarian	zoosterol

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