It's an online vocab quiz. Watch your score increase in right bottom corner as you get more words right. From the site:
Click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance...
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This is the first time I played. I donated 1010 grains of rice by doing so. My score in the bottom right got as high as 40. (It's not 40%, it is some kind of vocab level.) You have to play just a little while to get a ranking.
Be sure to click on the links at the top of the page to read about Free Rice and what they do. In the FAQ it explains that when you play, the rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their advertising at FreeRice, these companies support both learning (free vocabulary for everyone) and reducing hunger (free rice for the hungry). The website makes 0 profit from this.
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I only played for like 15 minutes before my nap. I got like 330 grains. When I have more time to kill I'll do some more. Thanks for sharing the game Paula!
Wow, thanks everyone! Collectively we make a larger contribution.
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Yeah. So, how many grains of rice are in an average bowl of rice?
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I got up to 750 before it timed me out...Im working in between words...I guess it didnt like me taking so long. But man is that addicting.
I sent it out by email to almost everyone in my address book, so if you got it from me by email...sorry to overlap Paula.
Thanks for sharing this with us Paula.
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No worries about the overlap! I'm glad to see it go out to others and when I get it again in an email, it just reminds me to donate rice, and get smarter in the process!
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I get a lot of them right just by looking at parts of the word and knowing what the root of the word means, or the suffix, etc.. and also by eliminating words on the list that I know have a different meaning. I've learned a lot too, as sometimes when I get one wrong, I look at the right answer and realize that I should have known that. I think the more you get right in a row, the harder they get. Something like that.
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I look at the word parts, too. I recognize some of them from science classes... but a bunch of them I recognize because my grandmother used them. But some of them you just have to know (or guess!).
Iris, you just know them cause you know everything!
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One of the words I got was "Geek". No kidding. I got it right, hehe. I know Iris would get that one too.
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I just took a few minutes and donated 800 grains of rice.
They changed it a little..
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