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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"

Date: 2007-11-30 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.