Test your vocabulary

Took an online test where my English vocabulary was estimated to be around 18,500 words. That’s not so great. Words like abcond, trundle, parsimonious, legerdemain, are beyond me safe passive knowledge. I decide to learn new vocabulary again. English language new articles online offer material, so do English language novels.

I repeated the vocabulary test, where almost the same words were tested, again I didn’t know the almost exact same words (e. g. sham, bawl, discomfit, disjunctive, adumbrate, extol, grouse), but this time, I only reached an estimated vocabulary of 15,100 words. Hm.