Vocab fun

Ganked from noah_brand…
Free Rice allows you to test your vocab skills and give away free rice.

For every right answer, 10 grains of rice are donated to combat world hunger.

I don’t do well with the language side of things but I was able to keep my vocab skill between 38-42. After about 30, I am guessing at about half of the ones I get right. Of the ones I know it is more because I have see the question word and the answer word in the same context, not that I know specifically what they each mean. But that still means that my vocab is doing pretty well considering how poor my English skills are (I am a pervy Math fancier after all).

9 thoughts on “Vocab fun

  1. I averaged around a 43.

    Some of the questions were easy if you understand word-forms. When it’s obviously an adjective, and there’s only one adjective in the list…

    Some of the questions were worthy of “Says You.”

    1. mind you, thinking it over, 1000 grains, not words–realized on the way home from work that I had forgotten to clarify that.

      something about a ride home waiting for me downstairs…*grin*

  2. Nifty link. After 720 grains of rice, I bounced between 39 and 44 rating. Plus, somebody gets to eat tonight (or, rather, in an unstated amount of time in the future).

  3. I donated about 1300 grains of rice. Final score before I got too many oddball words in a row and frustrated was 45. Some of their words are very odd, others I only know because I read historic fiction. I’ve never heard “pannikin” before!

  4. I donated 1600 grains of rice. I averaged 45 in the first several rounds, and by the time I got above 1500 grains, I was averaging 41.

    Interesting list, they had a lot of groups of regional slang. I identified Australia, Scotland, Ireland, and England. I couldn’t separate the French words by region.

    Sparrow

  5. One thing to consider: they start repeating words eventually. I got up to, I dunno, 1700 grains of rice, maybe more, and I saw some words twice. So,if you keep playing, you’ll eventually learn more and more of their word pool.

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