Over Thanksgiving weekend, I discovered a cool new site, via my aunt by way of my mother. It’s called FreeRice.

The site gives you a vocabulary quiz that is quite hard — my best level was a 46 — and featured words like “scintilla,” “veld,” and “decollate”. Word difficulty increases with every question you get right. For each correct answer, the site donates 10 grains of rice to a starving country via the UN — site advertisers foot that bill.

FreeRice’s sister site, Poverty.com keeps a grim death toll of people dying from hunger each minute.

Do something that’s good for your vocabulary and for the starving — check it out.