Fiendishly addictive site

I am getting so addicted to www.freerice.com that the same words are coming up again and again. I've facilitated a donation of 2000 grains of rice today and got my vocabulary level up to 44.

Since the site started on 7th October, they've donated 3,403,520,350 grains of rice to the hungry, all caused by people showing off their English skills!

Showing off your English knowledge to feed the hungry

There's a great site here. For each definition of a word you get right, you donate ten grains of rice to the hungry (it's done via advertising). The words get harder and harder as you go along.

I was disappointed that for years I thought "pusillanimous" meant "spoiling for a fight" when actually it means "cowardly".

But it is great fun to guess a word's meaning from its struture and letters. For example, horologe is a bit of no brainer - it means "time piece". Emesis means "vomiting" - I guessed that one.

In two minutes I have given 240 grains of rice.

UPDATE: I've got up to 440 grains of rice now, but I'll have to start supper. It's addictive.