Expand Your Vocabulary - Free.

b1234

moonsugar wrote: »

Thanks OP
For those who aren't familiar, freerice.com is also a nice site.

It's a fun little [free] game to help build your vocab and for every answer you get right you donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme

Thanks - totally addictive, esp over level 20!

albionwarrior

great site and addictive

happy81

1 of my goals for 2013 is to expand my vocab so this will come in nicely. Thank you OP!

snowleopard61

trotter09 wrote: »

Any idea why lacuna is becoming fashionable? Or is it just one of those things?

Probably because there's a large one in the public finances!:D

(There was a satirical song in the 70s that began, "There's a hole in my budget, dear Callaghan ...")

ETA: Thanks OP, I've heard of this before but think it's worth signing up. I love Freerice but find it almost dangerously addictive!

Snowyowl_3

newmee wrote: »

Thanks for this. i love learning new words...trouble with me is remembering what they mean. I learn new ones often but never seem to retain them :rotfl:I'm just a doof brain I guess

If you want to remember new words it is a good idea to write them down in a list with the definitions at the side.

Try putting your new words in a sentence when you learn them and maybe draw a picture at the side as you write them down- learning words in context makes them more memorable.

So if you attach a story or idea or concept or picture to a word it will really help you to remember it.

Try it and see.

The problem will then be to drop your new words casually into a conversation.

iAMaLONDONER

trotter09 wrote: »

Someone recently pointed out to me that many adults have a shockingly limited vocabulary. Which prompted me to start this thread.

Official MoneySavingExpert insert: Sign up at Wordsmith.org to get an email containing the definition of an uncommon word every weekday. Some words you will know, some will be new to you.



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Many thanks

G6JPG

snowleopard61 wrote: »

Probably because there's a large one in the public finances!:D

(There was a satirical song in the 70s that began, "There's a hole in my budget, dear Callaghan ...")
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I vaguely remember it resurfacing in the '70s indeed, but it's much older than that: I think it's Flanders and Swann, and was at least in the time of "dear Harold" [Wilson], if not older than that.

dominos

Thanks for the freerice.com
Although it should come with a **WARNING**- totally addictive!