Test Your English Vocabulary Competency – part I

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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