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[jack]

Freerice level 47

* I'm getting better slowly.
* It's easier if you go slowly and think about each one. It does help.
* Often you can guess what type of word. Is it a noun or adjective? Does it sound like a name?
* In fact, any tree, bird, fish, fowl, or cultural term in the list always seems to be right
* It's always satisfying when you know a word because of a book, board game, etymological conversation, or mathematical discipline etc that you never thought would come in handy. "Belike" "Rugose" "thaumatalurgical" "predicate"

Comments

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I hit level 50 once, but I've not managed to stay there - I seem to be about a level 47 person.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I level out at about 45. I was amazed to see some people sail directly to 50 (classical language knowledge was mentioned).

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think knowing Latin and Greek would be very very helpful. I've mainly got to the rarified heights of the 46+ with useful medical terms and some lucky guesses I think.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) There's quite a *lot* of guessing. I'm not sure how much is guessing about words -- which I think is quite justified being included in accounting of vocabulary knowledge -- and how much is just an artifact of the test.

And many of my guesses are based on being related to some other word, so in those cases a knowledge of roots would obviously be even more useful.

Level 45 is obviously words I've used sometimes, whereas 46+ is words I can deduce the meaning of but have never written.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I invariably get to 50 and stay there; it's got to the stage where I've learnt all the words at that level, even though I didn't know them all when I started. It really does help to know some Latin, but it helps even more to be widely read and have a retentive memory. For instance, the word "larrup" is one that I've only ever seen in one place in my life (in a poem by Ogden Nash about insomnia); I was able to deduce what it meant from the context, and, lo and behold, here it is on FreeRice, at level 50. (For the record, it means "flog".)

[d37373.livejournal.com]

I seem to be improving at about the rate I re-encounter words. Although it'a probably helping my vocabulary a little, knowing the answer because it was on freerice and I got it wrong feels like cheating.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

There is that.

(I vaguely hope, if it were to stay popular, they'd be able to expand the vocab more. Or maybe even have separate streams, awarding you a 50/50 scifi vocab, 45/50 reading vocab, 40/50 contemporary vocab, etc :))