Word-ness.

[elwen]

Found off of a Facebook group: FreeRice.com donates 10 grains of rice for each word you match correctly with its synonym. The futility of donating 10 grains a click is rather striking, but I have to admit it is addictive to test my word-ness. I think I'm stuck around level 42, though -- every time I get up to 43, I get the next one wrong and drop back down again.

ETA: I've gotten up to 47 and have hovered around there for a while on occasion, but more often when I get there I get smacked with 6 words in a row that I don't know and drop back down to 41. D:

Comments

[nendil.livejournal.com]

Well what do you know, a "dovecote" is, indeed, a cot(e) for doves.

And I know more of the words at level 39 than at 38. ¬_¬

[nendil.livejournal.com]

Also I am amazed at how many I'm getting right purely by guessing and intuition. Probably a 80% or higher success rate.

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's how it's been for me, too. Maybe I absorb something from reading about all the PIE roots in Word-of-the-Day emails after all. :o

But yeah, I got up to 46 on a streak of words I knew, and then promptly dropped back down to 39... methinks they need to work on their sorting algorithm, or just gather more data for it.

[ctrl-a.livejournal.com]

Well what do you know, a "dovecote" is, indeed, a cot(e) for doves.

And "avuncular" means uncle-like. I always forget that. It's such a stupid-sounding etymology. Kind of like how "vinegaroon" is a scorpion that shoots vinegar-smelling fluid. (We won a game of Balderdash with that word, because the real definition sounds so ridiculous.)

[superpan.livejournal.com]

Yay Freerice. My vocab is terrible, so I've decided to play a bit everyday and whenever I have time.

[ling84.livejournal.com]

The first time I found that site, I think I got up to 300+ grains easily, exercising all of that unused GRE vocab. I must've been on an amazing streak that night, since I was averaging level 45/46, and I'm a damn techie. :)

[musicsword.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got on a good streak and hit 45/46. It may just be too addicting for my own good -_-