Check out FreeRice.com for an addictive vocabulary game with a twist: the more you play, the more rice is donated through the United Nations to help end world hunger.FreeRice is a not-for-profit organization, but they do place advertisements at the bottom of the web site as you play the vocabulary game. Funding from the advertisers is what pays for the rice that gets donated.
An added benefit, according to FreeRice:
After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words.
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My highest score is currently 33. Please post your score!
Ha! 37 and 1,000 grains of rice! Thanks for the new addiction!
YL
YL --
I'm racking my brain trying to figure out who you are! Do I know you?
Tom
This is adictive. My high score sits at 41, but today I couldn't get past 38.
Geez. I'm a writer, and I couldn't do any better than 35. My husband, on the other hand, is apparently a wordsmithing genius. However, he can't spell addictive. :-)
Your Lurker.....
YL
Ah-ha... I should have known it was you...
Word•smith-noun-A skilled user of words.
I might be a genius, but using wordsmith and genius together is redundant.
A genius is defined as: a person of great intelligence, who shows an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work.
And wordsmith is described as: A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. An expert on words.
The two are not the same thing. Therefore, not redundant.
Perhaps we should call a truce.
You're the one who referred to me as someone who "shows an exceptional natural capacity for intellect" and "an expert on words." And now you want to argue with me?
Perhaps "genius" was the more appropriate word for me. While I might be "an expert on words," I'm certainly not "fluent," "prolific" or a professional.
I just hit 43. Call me whatever combination of superlatives you want!
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