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Old 01-29-2008, 10:37 PM
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Default Free Rice: Do Good and Learn A New Word

This is a nifty (wow, am I a 70s girl or what??) website where you can take a free vocabulary quiz and if you get it right, 20 grains of rice will be donated to those less fortunate than you through the World Food Programme. You start with a simple word and it gets progressively more difficult. I was able to get several words correct and I know YOU can, too!

http://www.freerice.com/index.php
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I donated 640 grains of rice.

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Old 01-30-2008, 05:37 AM
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And this is a legit site also. I did this over the summer when I first heard about it, need to make it my homepage or something so I do a little every day.

My word of the day
harlequinade = buffoonery
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Did 2000 grains
 
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I work for the State; 6K at one sitting..
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Old 01-30-2008, 06:33 PM
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And this is a legit site also. I did this over the summer when I first heard about it, need to make it my homepage or something so I do a little every day.

My word of the day
harlequinade = buffoonery
Or a pantomime by Harlequin
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