Like Words? Have Lots of Time?

I've discovered a spot where I can spend even more online time than at Ravelry, I think. It's the vocabulary game at the Free Rice website. I made it to level 50! (and promptly fell back, but eventually made it again, and fell back). Oh, and advertising revenue from the site all goes to support the United Nations World Food Program. I checked that claim out on Snopes, and it seems to be perfectly legitimate. And it is supposed to improve your vocabulary. So play without guilt. (Except for all that time not accomplishing anything here at the home front.) Forget all the altruistic motivations, though. I just want bragging rights.

Edited to add: Here's how it works. A word is posted with four possible words that mean the same thing. You pick, and if you are right you move up. The words keep getting harder. It's a pretty quick trip to about level 45. After that it gets dicier. You can tell that it originates in the UK: bosky, fen, copse, furze, gorse. It also helps if you have read Tennyson or Mallory or other medieval-y things: samite, oubliette, surtout, demesne, salver. There are also many words taken from the French. And Italian. And those scientific ones that at least you can sometimes get a clue from the Latin root.

Of course, you have a one in four chance by just guessing, and even better if you can do process of elimination. A stated purpose of the site is to help people improve their vocabularies. I guess it works. I just learned that "thrasonical" means "bragging". I'm not sure when I'll be able to work that into a sentence, but I'll be ready when the occasion comes up.

Oh, and credit where credit is due: I found this on Cheryl's blog.