Study vocabulary and help end world hunger at the same time! Anyone interested in English, from a beginning level student to a professor in linguistics, can participate.
Check out the site called Free Rice. The way it works is, you are given a word with 4 possible synonyms. If you click on the correct definition, you donate 20 grains of rice - for free! The rice goes to the United Nations World Food Program.
From a database of thousands of words, the game automatically adjusts to your level of vocabulary. "If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word." The highest level is 50. Mine was 43. What's yours?
Warning (posted on the site): This game may make you smarter! And you'll end up making a contribution to those in need.
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Science news: Climate change cheating at Paris, atmospheric red flags —
important as COP29 approaches
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Not that this will actually affect anything undertaken at COP29, starting
with the hypocrisy of it once again being held in a petrostate, this time,
Baku...
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1 comment:
"Free Rice" is fun—and addictive!
I intended to simply try it out for a few minutes, but ended up accumulating over 9,000 grains of rice—and noting a number of very unusual words, some of which were vaguely familiar, most of which were totally new. It was amazing how many of them I guessed through a process of elimination!
I'll be going back to this site for sure!
Dennis in Phoenix
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