Have fun and benefit a food charity...

[matriarch]

Go to http://www.freerice.com

and play the word game. You can have fun (I warn you, it's addictive), and do good. Correct answers donate rice to the United Nations, and you can actually see how much rice you are donating.

The wife pointed this out to me, thought I'd pass it on, knowing how addicted we all are to words.

'Auntie'

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Missed this one:

sesquipedalian = using long words

 

[matriarch]

For a bit of extra fun, how about posting on here, any really good words...unusual, funny, strange......

 

[cloudy]

I got to vocab level 45, and stayed for awhile.

This word got me, but I love it:

shillelagh = cudgel

 

[matriarch]

I got to vocab level 45, and stayed for awhile.

This word got me, but I love it:

shillelagh = cudgel

I'd have got that one, but some of the others had me stumped.

I'm at 41....taking a break before I drop back down to 38. And I've already donated 10 bowls of rice, for a half hour's playing.

Take a look at the total since the site opened a little over a month ago....

1,072,025,720 grains of rice, or, divided by 100 (grains in one bowl), 10,720,257 bowls.

Ten freakin' million bowls of rice.

That's amazing!!

 

[matriarch]

I love this one........

bumbershoot = umbrella

Who'd have thunk it.

 

[matriarch]

cordiform = heart shaped

bathos = triteness

febrile = feverish

besot = stupefy

donjon = castle main tower

tendentious = biaised

mulct = swindle

 

[starrkers]

It's got one of my favourite words

"extirpate"

 

[matriarch]

It's got one of my favourite words

"extirpate"

...........and it means????

 

[starrkers]

...........and it means????

Sorry I was all excited and forgot that bit

means destroy.

Just came across "scofflaw" meaning repeat offender. I thought that was cute.

 

[matriarch]

Sorry I was all excited and forgot that bit

means destroy.

Just came across "scofflaw" meaning repeat offender. I thought that was cute.

Are you finding it as addictive as we are? I keep telling myself, just a couple more, then I'll get on and do something else......but half an hour later, I'm still there!!

 

[matriarch]

gynandromorph = hermaphrodite.

Wow!

 

[starrkers]

Are you finding it as addictive as we are? I keep telling myself, just a couple more, then I'll get on and do something else......but half an hour later, I'm still there!!

Yes I am. Having to force myself to stay away!

 

[starrkers]

exenterate = disembowel

Now, I MUST got and shut the chooks in or the foxes will get them!

 

[matriarch]

Ooh, ooh..........I love this one:

pettifogger = unscrupulous lawyer.

 

[matriarch]

omphaloskepsis = navel-contemplation

 

[matriarch]

viviparous = producing live offspring

 

[matriarch]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLL

They just had 'abstruse'...........if I'd gotten that one wrong she'd have had my head!!

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

I donated 2000 grains of rice last night more to come tonight.

i surprised myself with some of the words i knew...forgot to come and add the ones i didnt here...

 

[glynndah]

Okay. Why am I getting all the ones concerning bodily functions?

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

tintinnabulation- ringing

!!!!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Bumpity.

I can't get past vocab level 45.

 

[oggbashan]

I enjoyed it even if I disagreed with some of their definitions and spelling...

My complete OED agrees with me. (No. I didn't use it when doing the test)

Og