If You Know These 21 Words, Your English is GENIUS LEVEL!

I gave up part one

Apparently there are lots of us geniuses on this channel.

Please don’t tell me “bigly” is on the list!

Non native speaker here. This is the first quiz from you where I actually learned 3 new words. So thanks.

OMG Als ein einfacher non-speaker mit 10 Jahren Englisch Unterricht in der Schule (Abitur mit Grundkurs Englisch) finde ich Trost darin, dass selbst meine Freunde mit Leistungskurs Englisch Level oder sogar Studium kommen nicht auf diesen Level.
By the way: 2 / whatwasit?

This one was definitely tougher. Although I guessed correctly at three of them, I outright didn’t know only ‘labile’. Well done. 👍

Where are these words used? Not in America at least! Got around 50%, but wondering if the host can identify where these words are used.

18 out of 21 correct! Though on question 15, while I knew you meant a trite statement, my Chemical Engineer brain desperately wanted "bromide" to be a salt of hydrobromic acid. 🧪

Also, speaking of tricky words, keep an eye on question 7—"otherworldly" lost its middle “l” in the answer key! I’m starting to think this entire genius-level test is just a massive ruse designed to live up to your surname. Very clever, Mr. Wiles. (LOL)

So I grew up in Europe and moved to the United States in 1969 as a young adult I just took the test and I missed five of them. I found this very interesting.

I got half right, which makes me a half -wit. 😅

I scored a B. I'm okay with that.

I graduated in 1965 with an English degree and have been reading since I was 4, I got all the words correct but had to guess at fainéant.

Those are some crazy made up words 😂 I did poorly, but surprised hirsute ended up in level 2 … that was one of my 7th grade vocab words and my mind can still see it written on my paper (I’m 66)

14

Answered all of them

I knew 19 of these - you stumped me with corruscate and faineant

7:47 it means to HENRY

Missed Fainéant. I'm pretty good at these things. I like words, it bummed me to miss one.

Ebglish is just a bunch of made up mumbpe jumble. Any Joe bliw can make up any words for any meanings. Most of these words will never be used in day to day conversation. Just useless words.

Anyone reading this, if you haven't repented yet, please REPENT, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Lord Jesus have mercy on you❤

"Halcyon days" is different than a "Halcion Daze."

Too easy - come on folks its ENGLISH 101

I managed just 14.

I would appreciate you including the root of the word and/or where it originated after you give us an example of use.

18/21

I knew 20 of the 21

lotta liars & good guessers in these here comments

I got a C! 🙁

15/21 😒

Though...in my defense...
my IQ dropped to 118 after the TBI. 😞
Very frustrating.

78 years old and got 20 correct. I didn't even have a good guess for faineant.

21 out of 21. But I'm no genius. Just fond of words. And I have G&S to thank for a lot of them. "You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee." Rode a horse!

I got all but two. It's back to summer school for me. :( This is humiliating.

My IQ has just been batterd.

21. Thank you.

Two of the words in the third section have never been used in my lifetime. I would know if they had been because I was taught at the age of 7 to write down any word that I did not know the correct definition; then I had to look the word up and write the definition out longhand. Then I had to use the word (written) in three sentences. Before today I have never seen or heard the words labile and faineant. I guessed the correct answer for labile and had no answer for faineant. All others were answered correctly.

I'm 79 and just got 21. Thanks.

Your under title covers the answers!

These videos are a running commentary on the degradation of American education over the past 80 yrs or so. When I graduated from the 8th grade of an ordnary New Jersy school run by Cathoilc nuns, my classmates and I were reading books containing these words - and knew what they meant. Those Catholic grade schools, with theirrt, emphasis on high standards are gone. The public schools that replaced them are even less effective at education than they were bsck then.

The result is, this a nation of high illiteracy made worse by people who lack critical thinking skills.

Seriously? This makes me a genius?

OK..

20/21😊

Did he mispronounce the word lithe?

15/21. Tough quiz but thoroughly enjoyed the challenge 👍

Just "DISCOVERED" you❗️
English is my second language, and I am fluent in Spanish, too.
I just celebrated my 70th birthday! We moved from México to E.C. Indiana when I was 10, without knowing a word of english, but carried an english-spanish dictionary with me all the time (I was not placed in ESL). I answered all 21 correctly 🎉 BROMIDE almost tricked me, but realized it really is not an alkaline chemical !!!
Sometimes I surprise myself 😊

Except for six words, I learned the rest of the words from my teachers before I graduated from high school...and I attended only public schools that were not particularly known to be exceptional. Four of the six words that I didn't learn before graduating from high school, I learned in college. And the two that I've never heard of before, I was able to guess correctly by the process of elimination, since I knew the definitions of the other words in the questions that they were in.
I'm surprised I got all the questions right because, although I received good grades, I didn't get straight As, nor had any remarkable academic accomplishments.
Did I just get lucky to have had great teachers? Or, has the quality of the education system gone down?

I missed 3. I must be slipping

I missed 6. Second language English speaker, the first being Dutch. I consider myself a quite advanced speaker of English to be honest, so it was definitely a challenging quiz!

The etymology of histrionic - when describing overly dramatic behavior centuries ago, hysteria was the root and histrionic meant relying heavily on historic facts and imagery in language (written or spoken).
Sadly, this history is all but forgotten today.

Vacillate, Élan and Fainéant are all borrowed from French.