Check out freerice.com. It’s a multiple choice vocab quiz and it’s challenging. Maybe you’ll learn a new word. For each question you answer correctly, 2o grains of rice are donated through the UN.
Cleverly, this idea came from a dad helping prep a kid for the SAT. He spent all this time building up a database of words and answers and now they’re available for us to play too! The ads build up revenue to pay for the rice. New words are added by professional lexicographers.
It’s fun (if you’re nerdy like me) and it doesn’t take a minute to speed through a dozen questions. You’re graded on a scale of 1-50 although, it’s next to impossible to get more than 48.
How well did you do?
Oooh, first time – got to 43. I think I’ll just start cheating.
I seem to hang around 35, but have gotten as high as 37. Cheating sounds like the way to go!
true story. my first word was ‘presto’. the classical music enthusiast in me answered “full of gaiety.” I clicked submit and presto! millions of starving children the world over cry out in unison: “it’s INSTANT you IDIOT”.
it’s almost as if this web site is like “we have the means to solve world hunger. but we wont. because you are an idiot.”
Guess what word I got?
Milliner.
Guess who walked around the office that day saying things like “With a sweet car like that, you must be a MILLINER!” or “If I won the lottery i’d be a MILLINER!”.
That’d be me.
milliner? but i dont even know her!
I seem to be hanging out generally in the 40-41 range.
I didn’t get any cool words like the rest of the kids. Darn it!