"What is just knowing what a word could help feed hungry people around the world?
Well, at FreeRice it does…the totals have grown exponentially." 
- The Washington Post

By checking out your English vocabulary at www.freerice.com you can do your bit to help alleviate world hunger! Yes, for each word you get right, the website donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this www.freerice.com, a sister site of poverty.com,  So, whether you are CEO, student, housewife, whomsoever, by checking out your vocabulary levels at this website you can facilitate donation of rice to hungry human beings, enabling them to live with their heads held high.  

The vocabulary programme at  FreeRice.com can automatically adjust to a person's level of vocabulary. To start with the programme provides words at different levels of difficulty and then, based on how a person performs assigns him or her an approximate starting level. A more exact level for oneself can be decided as one plays along. When one gets a word wrong, he or she can opt for an easier level. When you get three words in a row right, you go to a harder level. This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the "outer fringe" of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.  

How is the difficulty level for each word determined? The programme keeps track of how many people get each word right or wrong, and then adjusts each word's difficulty level accordingly. So the words at the easiest levels are the ones that people most often get right. The words at the hardest levels are the ones that people most often get wrong. As more and more people play the game, these levels become increasingly more accurate.

There are 50 levels in all, but it is quite rare for anyone to go beyond the 48th level.  FreeRice.com has a custom database containing thousands of words at varying degrees of difficulty. There are words appropriate for people just learning English and words that will challenge the most scholarly professors.

And, in between are thousands of words for students, business people, homemakers, doctors, truck drivers, retired people… everyone!  Regularly visiting www.freerice.com can help write better papers, emails and business letters; speak more precisely and persuasively; comprehend more of what is read; read faster because of better comprehension; get better grades; score higher on tests like the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT; perform better at job interviews and conferences; and sell services, and products better.

How does playing the vocabulary game at freerice.com help to donate free rice to the  hungry? As you play the game advertisements appear on the bottom of the screen. The money generated by these advertisements helps to pay for the rice.

So, whenever possible do visit the freerice.com and 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, FreeRice donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. This is the the world's largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organisations in over 75 countries.

The website www.freerice.com was launched on  October 7, 2007 and the donation of free rice for the day was 830 grains. At the last count, on November 9, 2007, a total number of  1,072,025,720 grains of rice have been donated. Log on to www.freerice.com and start clicking! Thanks to you somewhere in the world, a person could be eating rice that you helped provide by checking out your vocabulary levels.