Improve your vocabulary

Ajarn Philip · Post by **Ajarn Philip** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:09 pm

I got stuck on 99 for a while, but slipped up with the word 'barefaced'...
:tomcat:

Ajarn Philip · Post by **Ajarn Philip** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:34 pm

Mid A 15 wrote: Come on lads look lively!

Best I can manage is 47, I'm afraid.

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 4:34 am

Mid A 15 wrote:Looks like the Hertford girls are setting the early pace with 47 and 50.

Come on lads look lively!

I'm up to 50. I think I'll quit while I'm ahead. Otherwise, this could go on all night... :/

lonelymom · Post by **lonelymom** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:36 am

Well, you are all much cleverer than me then. I got to 1000 grains, but only had a vocab level of 39. I was disappointed, then remembered it is all about the grains!

I think my conscience is going to make me addicted.

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:29 pm

lonelymom wrote:Well, you are all much cleverer than me then. I got to 1000 grains, but only had a vocab level of 39. I was disappointed, then remembered it is all about the grains! I think my conscience is going to make me addicted.

I've only got 40 and 41!

Like you say though it's the grains that count!

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:50 pm

I got to 46 - once!
Was promptly demoted to 41. At that point I gave up!

Has anyone counted 100 grains of rice yet??

Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:39 pm

I got to 4870 grains, but have got to get on with other things, so have stopped midway! I hope that's a bowlful anyway!

Munch

lonelymom · Post by **lonelymom** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:02 pm

Well, I did manage to get above 39, but then, like everyone else I got knocked back by two wrong answers in a row. I should have given up while I was ahead, but I was going for the grains!

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:44 pm

mountebank? what kind of a word is mountebank?!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:04 pm

A quack or charlatan, a snake oil salesman

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:22 pm

demonstration of why the Hertford lot are leading the field !

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:36 pm

I well remember seeing a 'snake oil salesman' in full flow in a market in Borneo (it may even have been snake oil he was selling!) The before and after photos were grisly and graphic. His elixir would apparently cure all - especially in the love department. He had a large crowd getting out their money.

Back to the vocabulary, I'm now giving 500 grains at a time and regularly at 50 but I haven't got any higher yet!

michael scuffil · Post by **michael scuffil** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:28 pm

MKM wrote:I've got as far as 50 (670 grains of rice) briefly.

Same here, but then I am a professional translator. I keep falling back after 50 too.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:59 pm

I read the small print and you cannot get higher than 50! I find their concept of difficulty strange but perhaps that is a reflection of my eclectic vocabulary!