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taffydavid 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

No, absolutely not, and that's my point. A real test would be having to type the definition, or pick from ten options

GolfPopper 3 months ago [–]

I think that picking the correct (or most correct, which is trickier) use of the word in context (out of, as you say, many options) might be a good way to test for receptive vocabulary.

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