Well, how about the New KJV? Can you pass this vocabulary test even with a few of my "helpful hints"? Let's see.
The vocabulary of the New King James Version, along with some "helpful hints".
Abase, abashed, abode, adhere, admonish, adversity, aground, algum, alienate, alighting, allays, allotment, alloy, aloof, alms, amend, amiss, annihilated, anise, antitype, arbitrate, apprehended, archives, armlets, ascertain, asps, attire, austere, backbite, banishment, baths (not to get clean), bdellium, befalls, beggarly, begetting, behemoth, belial, beseech, betrothal, beveled, birthstools, bittern, bleat, booty (not modern slang), borne, breach, brandished (not drunk), bray, bristling, buffet (not a restaurant), buckler (not a belt), bulrush, (not a stampede), burnished, butress (not a chair), calamus, caldron, capital (not a city), carcasses, carnally, carrion (not luggage), cassia, caulkers, centurion (not a 100 years), chalcedony, chalkstones, chaste (not pursued by a runner), chasten, (not related to previous chaste), chrysolite, chrysoprase, circumspect, cistern (not feminine of brethren), citadel, citron, clamor, cleft, cloven (not a spice), commission (not money), commonwealth (not shared money), compound (not a barracks), concede , compulsory, conciliation, concubine (not a tractor), congealed, contemptuously, confederacy (not the South), contingents (not same as large land masses), corban, coriander, countenance (not adding up ants), couriers (not an hordourve), covert, crags, crescents, crest (not the top of a hill), cropped (not food), cubit, custodian (not the one who cleans the school halls), curds, dainties (not effeminate), dandled, daubed, dappled, dayspring, denarii, deposed (not relaxing after a foto op), deride (not same as dismount), despoiled (not really, really rotten), diadem, diffuses (not to disarm a bomb), dilapidation (not the act of standing up), dispensation, disrepute, dissipation, diviner (not a grape grower), docile, dragnet (not a detective drama), dregs, drachmas, dropsy (not clumsiness), dross, dryshod, eczema (God bless you), edict, edification, elaborate, embellish, emitted, enigma, enmity, entrails (not a short cut), envoy, eventide, epistle, ephod, exorcise (not jogging), expiration (not a date on a carton of milk), faction, fallow, famish, fare (not average and not money), fatlings (not piglets), feigned (not passed out), festal, fetched, fidelity (not good sound), figurehead (not a statue of a head), filly, flanges, foreskin, fostered, fowlers (not a baseball term), fuller (not less empty), furlongs (not cat tails), gad, garland, garrison, gaunt, gecko, graven, Hellenists, hew (not a man's name), homers (not baseball), hoopoe (not a garden tool), immutability, indignant, insolence, insubordination, intervene, itinerant, jackdaw, jeopardy (a TV show, but what does it mean?), jubilation, kors (not a brand of beer), laden, lamentations, laud (not Boston pronunciation of lard), lusty, mail (not a letter), mammon, matrix (other than the movie), mattock (not a TV lawyer show), mercenaries, mina (not a type of bird), mite (not a bed bug), moorings, nativity, offal (not terrible), offscouring (not dandruff), omnipotent, onager (Job 39:5 - you won't believe this one!) oracle, pangs, papyrus (not a fruit), paramours, parapet(not a dog and a cat), penitents, perdition, phylacteries, pilfering, pillage, pims, pins (not like needles or bowling- has to do with a chariot), pinions (not a type of nut), plaited (not dishes), platitudes, potentate, potsherd, poultice (not chickens), Praetorium (not a place to pray), prattler, principality, prodigal, proconsul, prognosticators (not people who put things off till later), propitiation, pslatery, prow, pulverize, pyre, quadrans, quiver (not to shake), rampart (not a piece of a truck), ravenous, ravished, raze (not to lift up), reconciliation, recount (not to double check your arithmetic), rend, renown, reprisal, retinue, rifled (does not have to do with guns), rivulets, rogue, salute ( does not have to do with the army), satiate, satraps, scruples, sepulcher, shamefaced, shards, Sheol, shod, shuttle (not a type of bus or spaceship), siegeworks, sistrums (not an affectionate term for your sisters), skiff, soothsayer, spelt (not anything to do with spelling words), straits (not the opposite of crookeds), superfluous, supplanted, tamarisk, tares, tarries, temperate, terebinth, terrestrial, tetrarch, throng (not a skimpy bathing suit), timbrel, tittle (not the name of a book), tresses, usury, vagabond, vassal, vehement, vermilion, verdure, verity, vestments, waifs, wane, wanton (not desiring something), warp (not to bend), wend, wield, winebibber, woof (not a dog or stereo), wrought.
Harder Words in the NKJV (provided by Sam Gipp)
Reference____________AV 1611____________NKJV
Gen 9:9 _____________seed___________ _____decendants
Gen. 18:1____________plains________ _______terebinth trees
Gen. 35:4____________oak___________ ______terebinth tree
Lev. 4:11 ____________dung________________offal
Dt. 15:7______________coney_______________rock hyrax
Dt. 28:50_____________old_________________eldery
Josh. 22:24___________children______________decendants
Jud. 8:13_____________sun was up___________Ascent of Heres
Ruth 4:5______________raise up______________perpetuate
1Sam. 13:21___________file_________________pim
1Sam. 16:16___________evil_________________distressing
1Sam. 22:6____________tree_________________tamanisk tree
2Sam. 6:5_____________cornet_______________sistrums
1Kg. 10:2_____________train_________________retinue
2Kg. 12:5_____________breach_______________dilapidation
Ecd. 2.3______________give_________________gratify
Isa. 13:12_____________man_________________mortal
Isa. 28:1,4_____________fat__________________verdant
Isa. 34:14_____________screech owl___________night creature
Jer. 19:3______________evil_________________catastrophe
Jer. 36:6______________mouth_______________instructions
Dan.1:17______________learning_____________literature
Dan. 6:2_______________princes__________________satraps
Hos. 4:13______________elms___________________terebinths
Matt. 21:15____________displeased______________indignant
Matt. 23:25____________excess_________________self-indulgence
Luke 7:1_______________much__________________earnestly
Luke 8:31______________ended__________________concluded
Luke 12:14_____________the deep________________the abyss
Luke 21:5______________divider__________________arbitrator
John 2:10______________gifts____________________donations
John 4:12______________worse__________________inferior
John 9:8_______________cattle__________________livestock
John 10:41_____________before__________________previously
Acts 5:7_______________did____________________performed
Acts 5:14______________more___________________increasingly
Acts 10:1______________band___________________Regiment
Acts 27:21_____________quick sands_____________Syrtis sands
Rom. 10:12_____________difference_______________distinction
2Cor. 5:2_______________house__________________habitation
Titus 1:6_______________riot_____________________dissipation
Titus 1:6_______________unruly__________________insubordination
So you see, besides the very serious textual matter, the modern versions also have words hard to be understood. Try giving this list of words as a vocabulary test and see if your son or daughter, or even yourself gets a passing score.
There is a huge battle going on today about the Bible. We are headed for the falling away, the apostasy, which will occur before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in glory and judgment. This is the most biblically ignorant generation of Americans ever, in spite of, or perhaps, BECAUSE OF the modern versions.
The explosion of multiple-choice, conflicting modern versions has encouraged the student to pick and choose his own preferred readings and has created a tendency to treat every Bible lightly and to look upon none as the final words of God.