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I know what you're thinking right now... you wish you could do two things at once, such as expand your vocabulary and donate food, right? Of course that's what you want, and I have just the site for you! http://www.freerice.com Check it out! For each word you get right, the site donates 10 grains of rice to help the cause against world hunger!
(I liked this pitch so much I copied it from here)
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Hmm, I just guessed gimlet=auger. That's news. I made it 22 times straight, missing pennate = winged. Earlier I got 20 straight. It has a decent vocab list, and goes up and down appropriately to keep it challenging.
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The words are really easy or really hard for me . Probably because I am only 18 and haven't even heard of some of the words, due to my limited experience on this planet.
Edit: Well, most are really easy, but occasionally (every 10 or so) there is a hard one.
Edit2: Alright, so it is really really easy then I get to level 30 and it gets harder for me. Damn you, limited vocabulary.
Edit3: Decided to start thinking about the origin of the word, and I am doing much better. Up to level 40, so far.
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I got to 47 with a few singular misses, then missed three in a row. Most of the time I ranged between 43 and 45.
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I would feel bad, but then I remember that I am surrounded by authors, law students, etc.
I hope that by the time I have learned Latin I will do better. Try again in a few years, when I am not a mere freshman. Well, I suppose I'll continue to do it to help starving children.
I don't understand why we should have to get vocab right to have the UN help people... isn't that kind of arbitrary? Why not just... help?
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Every time you click the ads at the bottom change and the revenue from the advertising goes to buy the rice.
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A lariat is a lasso... I learned two other ways to say lasso today. I don't know how I would have survived without this knowledge.
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Forty-seven on the first try. I will admit to haveing guessed a couple of times. Latin helped. But, there were a few Saxon words there, and one nonsense word from good old Glibert and Sullivan.
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They seemed to have left the 'n' out of internment. For a minute there I thought that there was some bizarre word I had never heard of and then came to my senses and realized that it was more likely an error.
However, I still can't seem to get above 43.
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I got to level 48. All those crossword puzzles landed up getting someone a bunch of rice. It is also helpful to have some medical vocabulary.
I pity the guy who has to sit there counting out grains of rice, though. Seems easier to measure it by weight or volume, no?
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Got to 45 with only one mistake. Not bad for a non-native speaker . However, when chosing what "chanticleer" could possibly mean the whole thing went white on me. I think I broke something with my clever answer.
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D'oh. I knew what it meant, but not how it was spelled. Well, there goes my master of all discourse credentials.
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Thanks esl. Now instead of working on writing my progress review, I am donating rice. I beat Noeman's coworkers, but am on the low end for the hatrack group.
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Isn't a chanticleer just a fancy way of saying a "dirty, rhyming song used to annoy fans of the opposing team at a football game"?
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A chanticleer is a rooster. Before Rutgers' mascot was the "Scarlet Knight", it was the "Chanticleer"... this was pre-1955. I'm very glad they changed it.
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Or probably more accurately, "clear singer" in old french. The name of a rooster in numerous French stories and folk tales. I seem to remember a Esop's Tale type story within Canterbury Tales, from there into English meaning Rooster.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I tend to stay in the mid- to high-40s. I guess that's pretty Hatrack-typical.
No wonder I like you all. We speak the same language.
I don't know; I mean, we might be experiencing selective reporting. I don't think we can necessarily infer that "Hatrack-typical" is in the mid-to-high-40s given that most of those who choose to report their scores are at that level. There might be plenty of Jatraquerios who are getting lower scores, but simply not reporting. And who knows if we are all reporting accurately.
That said, Hatrack rocks, I love you all, and I'm sure we really are better at vocabulary than all those other forums. At least on average. For some definition of average.
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I can hang at 42-44. I don't last long at the 45-47 level-- they start whipping out all of these bizarre animals I've never heard of. Latin roots don't help much with those.
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I only had 3 years of Latin, but it helps me plenty, as does the "root word" study we did in 9th and 10th grade. We learned not only Latin but Greek, French, and atypical roots. That, combined with a fair amount of medical terminology knowledge, makes it easier for me to figure out words both in and out of context. It's definitely something I'll be doing with my kids.
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I'm pretty pleased about how much my geology class helps.
I kind of take the Latin and Anglo-Saxon stuff for granted, but the geology is nice, as is the medical stuff.
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My girlfriend and I went up to 45 but probably average at about 43. There's a lot of guessing involved when we played.
Miro, I searched before I posted. Somehow the other post didn't show up. And sorry about the crazy linking. It's edited out.
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