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thret on July 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Estimate your English vocabulary size

40,300 and I am astounded that there were words I hadn't seen before.

Funambulism is my new favourite word.

pbhjpbhj on July 17, 2011 | [–]

I wonder if any that got it did so because they recognised the word from prior usage? Or instead did they recognise the Latin form and guess it.

By rights a funambulist should be a John Cleese impersonator ...

MaysonL on July 17, 2011 | [–]

Yes, funambulist, and sparge. 42K

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