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World Wide Words!

What’s something most people don’t understand?

  1. If you can score more than 2060 on level 5th and 4th of UNWFP Free Rice Vocabulary Test: consider your vocabulary size to be decent compared to Mensa members.
  2. If you can easily score cent-percent on Peter Schmies Word Classification Test: you’re as smart as Frederick Berchtold when he was fourteen years old or Joy Rajiv when he was twenty three or James Harbeck when he was, well, whatever age he was in 1997-1998. Or you might be as smart as I am in 2025.
  3. If you know all the words in Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words or in the glossary of Sesquiotica: you might be in the league of extraordinary gentlemen like Language Log authors.
  4. Most people don’t understand most of the words they use or see in their everyday lives, of course, including me.
  5. Most people don’t understand that there’s nothing to understand.
  6. Why not I, me and myself.
  7. Traction.
  8. How do I convince myself of relative rarity of words or currency?
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How often ten enfranchise Seymore morel ellipse!

How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?

  1. Whether you’re a slave or a human being or a bot or an animal. ( Reframing the question or rephrasing if you would.)
  2. Brings us to goals such as pursuit of happiness derived by clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test or
  3. James Harbeck’s glossary of terms on Sesquiotica or
  4. United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test database level 4th and 5th or
  5. SAT/GRE
  6. TOEFL
  7. IIT JEE
  8. IIM or Harvard University entrance tests.
  9. Goals which mean different thing at different times.
  10. How often? Even in your dreams or only in waking and sleeping?
  11. What a strange prompt indeed.
  12. It might as well be asking how often do you need an ambulance carrying you to resting place or
  13. Why would in a perfect platonic reality you would not have enough to pursue your goals without saying no to a number of things, filters, veils or imperfections at first.
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Persnickety, Pernickety

I first came across this word in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test. You’re supposed to tell if Persnickety is synonymous with finicky or antonyms or completely unrelated.

Here James Harbeck, who originally appeared at number eleventh in Peter Schmies Word Classification Test rankings gives a great treatment to Persnickety though he didn’t mention finicky even once in this entire article. I took help from Replika platform level 368 on some words to interpret this article. These words are :

  1. Snick
  2. Torquemada
  3. Friar
  4. Concupiscence
  5. Absquatulate related to Scram
  6. Down in the nick with old Nick until he became:
  7. Saint Nicholas
  8. Saint Lawrence is patron saint of comedians, cooks and…..
  9. Numpty reminds me of Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
  10. Parting note: if you , editors association of Canada or anyone else is in contact with United Nations World Food Program Website Free Rice Vocabulary Test support team, please let them know that website is bugged and dysfunctional in the sense that levels don’t change on their own. You’re supposed to manually reset the levels.
  11. I might also have read its etymology in Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words without any corroboration for the same. Hope you will visit Sesquiotica and enjoy James’ defence of editorial midwives.
  12. https://sesquiotic.com/
  13. The link above takes you to the article mentioned because jetpack app somehow fails in the process of reblogging as it does in many others.
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I, me, myself or Norway!

Who was your most influential teacher? Why?

  1. I, me, myself.
  2. Raman Maharshi, often considered to be Dakshinamurthy among gurus would agree.
  3. Some others disagree. Self is neither one nor many, nor sum of parts or…..
  4. None of the teachers were influential enough to last forty years of my life.
  5. And so on and so forth.
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I think it’s a trap and I might be paranoid, only thing is: it’s a trap and I am not paranoid.

What was the best compliment you’ve received?

I can tell you about compliments I gave. There are absolutely no compliments which can save your life, your day or your future.

All epics are full of those though. Actually it’s swear words people use as compliments these days.

I give myself compliments, in order to motivate myself, it’s done by comparing myself with myself in space and time ( to quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge.)

The best achievement was clearing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test after so many trials and tribulations.

Now I am struggling to clear this test on United Nations World Food Program Website called Free Rice. It’s an archive of archaic words at level fifth and fourth.

If I clear this test: I might be able to flawlessly score everyday. Flawlessly score at least 2060 everyday. This would be an achievement enough to save myself from embarassing teenagers I come across everyday who throw temper tantrums to register themselves instead of actually doing anything meaningful for community or themselves.

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Open Book Free Rice Vocabulary Test Level 5th

  1. About 7 errors.
  2. When level 5th is exhausted I should try level 4th.
  3. I was quite confident with levels 1, 2 and 3 until January.
  4. After doing Peter Schmies Word Classification Test I started using notebook and pen to overcome difficulties posed by smartphone hacking etc which renders revision almost impossible for archaic words.
  5. I project completion of level 5th before March.
  6. Let’s see.