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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"

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[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".)