Saturday, November 17, 2007

Complementary Pilaf

Test your vocabulary at FreeRice.com - ten grains of rice are donated to U.N. food programs for every correct word.

So addictive.

2 comments:

Kevin said...

Great website link, Eileen. Definitely addictive. I kept playing until I got to 2000 grains. My vocab level topped out at 48 (which the FAQ says is the de facto top, despite going to 50), but generally was in the 44-46 range.

I have to say that the site is fairly biased towards obscure British words, so it's an advantage if you know British. Plus if you know a lot of medieval words, it's also an advantage. Plus there were a decent amount of words which I didn't think were particularly English, but if you knew the Romance languages you could get. When did "cordillera" become an English word?

Btw, is there a reason you called your post "side dish rice" rather than "free rice"?

eileen said...

Hah! I meant to write "complimenary" as in "free", but I guess I'll leave it as a side dish.

I noticed a lot of science words, like "quiescent" and "pyrexia" that were easy for me, but perhaps more obscure for the general population.