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AngelUndercover
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16 Apr 2008, 9:13 am

My highest score so far is 47.

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reika
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16 Apr 2008, 2:59 pm

SleepyDragon is our current record-holder with a score of 53.
I am currently stuck at 49 and can't seem to go any higher.
I'v fed a village for the day by now.

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16 Apr 2008, 4:04 pm

I got 900 grains today honor of the cafe's 900th page. I will be back at it tomorrow. And I've had an uncontrollable urge to sit and count out how many grains of rice are in a cup. That would feed a meal to 4 people.

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lau
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16 Apr 2008, 5:22 pm

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Rats. I've only just discovered the "OPTIONS" - or I'd be showing the 5,000 grains of rice from yesterday, too.

I swiftly went downhill, after the above, to a mere 47 at 3,000 grains.

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reika
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17 Apr 2008, 2:39 am

Finally broke past 50. Wanted to get it up here now before my level goes back down. I could't get the whole picture up. When I "copied" it over to here I got only the words

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animadvert = censure quondam means:
timid
former
concise
hypercritical
VOCAB LEVEL: 51
YOUR BEST LEVEL: 51

Fuzzy
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17 Apr 2008, 6:49 am

47/47

Tomorrow I break 50!

deathchibi
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17 Apr 2008, 9:24 am

my top was 41 my lowest was 29 the ending score was 37

i think most of my class would not get past the first 1000

i think i went well.

lau
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17 Apr 2008, 11:30 am

CORRECT!
replevin = seizure of goods

1. razzia means:
2. Italian horse race
3. gravel path
4. raid
5. Italian pasta dish

VOCAB LEVEL: 54
YOUR BEST LEVEL: 54

You have now donated
7860 grains of rice.

And... I have no idea what this one is... I'll guess at "gravel path", I think.

I expect to be back down around 47, shortly.

I'm not sure I'll ever manage the full 55. So far, I've been lucky. I guess well.

PS. I was wrong. It was "raid". Back to 53.

==============
Down to 50, with...
Please try again. Your donation
total is 12920 grains of rice

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darkstone100
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17 Apr 2008, 7:37 pm

my top was 35
and I "donated" over 1200 pieces of rice.

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reika
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19 Apr 2008, 11:47 am

Still can't get past 51, but I will, I'll probably feed a continent in the process. But I'm determined.

lau
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19 Apr 2008, 2:52 pm

If the "level" numbers were to happen to have a decimal point in them, the maximum level 55, read as meaning 10^5.5=316,228 would be quite close to the number of entries in the 2nd edition of the OED, which is 291,500.

Time for today's attempt at guessing my way to the big one...

(NB. I'm sure it ISN'T what I was suggesting above, as it has been retrying some words I had already got right once. It has now stopped testing MY vocabulary and is testing how well I have learnt ITS vocabulary. I learn quick.)

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gismo
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20 Apr 2008, 8:15 am

At first I wondered whether freerice was real, until a saw the press section. It's amazing...

blessedmom
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20 Apr 2008, 8:31 pm

News stories about FreeRice:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... b=Specials

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm

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spudnik
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20 Apr 2008, 10:05 pm

I am at 9820 grains of rice. Tired of clicking on it try to get 10000 tomorrow
Was playing this back in February

reika
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25 Apr 2008, 10:24 am

I refuse to let this thread die.

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