Paul Whybrow
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This quiz is in today's Independent. There's some rather obscure words in it, none of which I recall seeing in books.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/how-good-is-your-vocabulary-take-the-quiz--WJvE3MG0Xl
I managed to get 8 out of 14 right, though this was by a combination of lucky guesswork, some semantic knowledge and, with question three Winkspink some local knowledge, as a Wink is a Cornish word for something...
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/how-good-is-your-vocabulary-take-the-quiz--WJvE3MG0Xl
I managed to get 8 out of 14 right, though this was by a combination of lucky guesswork, some semantic knowledge and, with question three Winkspink some local knowledge, as a Wink is a Cornish word for something...