I didn’t think Nate Bargatze was that old.
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His kids are all retirement age. His son’s job for decades has been running his charity. I think Howard did some good things in Ukraine but also some bad things elsewhere when I read up on him.
There was some guessing in grandmaster. After a while I kind of hacked out their algorithm for coming up with answers. I did know almost all the words leading up to grandmaster and had heard of maybe 40% of the grandmaster words.
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“only”
That’s was fun. I got 93 right and also said 73k vocab.
But I was noting as I went. There were 16 I didn’t know. Although some I had a vague sense
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Got 95/100 (but guessed in a few more spots), 75k words. Probably an overestimate since many of the “hard” words were French
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WTF, there are 100 questions? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
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And it takes three clicks to get to the next word!
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Not too bad for a 2nd language! 
I gotta admit though midway I used a trick that I got aware of when I recently designed single-choice exam questions with the help of AI (that made me edit the answers heavily), and I noticed it seems to work here, too. And it did most of the time when I didn’t know something. 
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What was it?
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I let others try it first before revealing. 
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All the grandmaster questions could be whittled down to 2. Usually the format is:
- Thing that sounds like the word
- Another thing that sounds like the word
- The actual thing
- The opposite of the actual thing
They really should have an “I don’t know” option if the goal is to gauge our vocabulary.
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Is it still that you can figure out most words if you know Latin and Greek roots?
A lot of leftists out there
