Feed the Hungry w/Your Vocabulary
Snipped from FreeRice.com.
Don’t have enough money to donate to all the starving children in the world? Well, instead of money, how about smarts? Are you smart enough to feed the hungry? Here is a site that allegedly feeds the hungry with rice that you win during a game of vocabulary skills. I have no clue if this is actually real or not, but it is quite fun and educational. Try it out, and you can flaunt your vocabulary level and how much rice you have earned in the comments section below.
Here is a small portion of the article:
Click on the answer that best defines the word.
If you get it right, you get a harder word. If wrong, you get an easier word.
For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance… (more)
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I got a couple of hard ones right off the bat and got a low score of 32. I ended the game with 820 grains of rice and a level of 33. I obviously need to bump up my vocabulary skills. There are some words that I don’t think are even in use today. Anyways, have fun!
Alright, I tried it again to see if I could better my score, but damn it, the highest I got was 35 on my Vocab Level. I earned 1030 grains of rice for the hungry though!
180 g, / 37 level.
Another great charity site is AIDtoCHILDREN.com. It donates money to children in need through World Vision.
AIDtoCHILDREN.com is a dual-purpose site for building an English vocabulary and raising money for under privileged children in the most impoverished places around the world.
Check it out at http://www.aidtochildren.com