I did not know misfeasor which is kind of a cool word.
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87%. More significant (to me) however, is that I didn’t say ‘yes’ to any non-words. Feelin’ good about that.
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94%
First go was 86% because I treated it like a race and missed words like “repudiate” which I not only know, but have used a lot. I got 0 made up words both times, but I was a little over-cautious about words like “technologic” which trip up my spell-check when I use them and I wasn’t sure how “strict” they were being about what an English word was.
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Yeah that is probably what kept me from doing better… One of my misses was ‘balanceable’ which is one of those well looks like it should be as it is a valid suffix but lets just go with no.
Then there was ‘crackman’ which is old slang for safe cracker and I had never seen that one before so went with no.
The others were some even more obscure/oddly spelled words that I really waffled on. But hey I am happy with 91% on the first go.
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Oh wow, I’m proud of/for you! High five indeed.
Not falling for the nonwords is great. 
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I thought the literary types WERE the elite?
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I’m just complaining that 93 percent just isn’t that special once you enter the rarified halls of boingboing.
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I’ve subscribed to A Word A Day almost as long as I’ve had email. It often offers interesting backgrounds on words whose meanings I already know.
Sometimes I browse through the Oxford English Dictionary for the same reason.
A lot of other places I wouldn’t admit that for fear of seeming weird. Here, though…
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‘Foody’ got me. I know ‘foodie’ is a word, but food-y? Why yes, yes it is a word. An adjective describing something that is…food.
English. I hate you.
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BAH.
“Fluidextract” is not a word, it’s two words. Stupid doctors don’t know how to use the space bar.
Laiths is just as good an English word as all the Greek words they gave me. Scotland forever!
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77% (77%, 0%)
Considering that a week-long class trip is all the time I have ever spent in an English-speaking country, I guess that’s ok.
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shooped. I can see the pixels.
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Lol, made a screenshot without removing the highlight (tried to copy first). And closed the tab before I saw my error. And thought f* it. It’s not that an important issue/topic, just fun.
And btw, shouldn’t I’ve made it a better score? 
But hey, aren’t it a lot of pixels, the best of them?
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Yeah, I got 91% but I listed “kroner” as not an English word. Because it’s not, really? But then I realized half the words were all Greek or Latin composites anyway so I guess it was more “is it a real word”. And I accidentally hit “yes” on “cowows” which I know isn’t a real word lol
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Powwows for cows, obviously.
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96
Then I whipped up a little script to grab the test word, cross-check against Trump’s last 500 tweets and a batch of transcribed speeches, and click Yes/No…
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Obligatory:
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I am in disbelief that ‘unbelief’ is a real word. Unbelievable!
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