Quiz: Can You Actually Define These 25 PhD Level Words?

How wide and lavish is your English vocabulary? Do you have good diction? Are you a bookworm over a couch potato? If English was your favorite subject and writing came easy to you, then you will probably ace this quiz with no difficulty. Put your vocabulary knowledge to the test with this quiz! The worst thing that can happen is that you don't pass your first time, so what do you have to lose?

Grammar and lexicon have been a subject of study for an incredibly long time. As a companion to rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome, and as one of the seven liberal arts in medieval education. Although the methods of studying language have changed dramatically in recent times, the reasons for studying have remained essentially the same.

Why should we know the meaning and grammatical use of such words? One of the most sensible answers to the question appears in a position statement on the teaching of grammar in American schools. Published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the report is refreshingly free of educational cant. Here's how it begins:

"Grammar is so important because it is the language that makes it possible for us to talk about language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. As human beings, we can put sentences together even as children—we can all do grammar. But to be able to talk about how sentences are built, about the types of words and word groups that make up sentences—that is knowing about grammar. And knowing about grammar offers a window into the human mind and into our amazingly complex mental capacity. People associate grammar with errors and correctness. But knowing about grammar also helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs clear and interesting and precise. Grammar can be part of literature discussions, when we and our students closely read the sentences in poetry and stories. And knowing about grammar means finding out that all languages and all dialects follow grammatical patterns." (Brock Haussamen, "Guideline on Some Questions and Answers About Grammar", 2002)

In addition, understanding the meaning and complexity of advanced words is extremely important to human kind. With a sufficient understanding of words students cannot understand others or express their own ideas.

Vocabulary is important across the curriculum from language arts and social studies to mathematics and science. It is intimately connected to both effective reading and writing skills, and these skills in turn are necessary for doing well in school.Research studies have shown that in most cases students have to see, read and interact with words 5-7 times before they are admitted to long-term memory.

A great example of one of the lesser-known benefits of a large vocabulary comes from a study of children. This study examined a group of children when they were 18 months old and again when they were 24 months old. Researchers found that the children who heard more words when they were 18 months old knew more words and were faster in word recognition at 24 months than their counterparts who had heard fewer words. In other words, the more words the children heard, the more words they knew; and the more words they knew, the faster they could recognize and process information. In the end, more works are better.

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