I Now Have a New Web Addiction
@bagarad (14283)
Paso Robles, California
April 26, 2017 11:48pm CST
Thanks, Ann (@drannhh). Until today I did not know about vocabulary.com. Now I can't stay away from it. It appears this is just what I need to keep my mind sharp and keep learning. I'm sure I've learned at least 25 new words today. I don't think I will ever catch up to the daily scores of others, though. I am very much behind. Those people must spend hours a day on the site to get those high scores in a day.
If I'm going to be addicted to something, I'm glad it's at least helpful rather than harmful. What sites do you spend enough time on (besides this one) to consider them addictive? Why do you like them so much?
Who else uses Vocabulary.com? What do you think of it? I love the way it teaches me new words in a number of contexts. What do you love or hate about it?
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
27 Apr 17
I need to use this one, right now I am only addicted to mylot.
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@marlina (154166)
• Canada
2 May 17
@andriaperry, If you love words, you might get addicted if you go there. Beware!
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
27 Apr 17
I have never heard of it. Sounds interesting though. Besides here, I am always working on my eBay site or other selling sites and doing research of what I might want to consider selling next.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
27 Apr 17
I should be trying to sell on eBay. It's been years, and I have no recent ratings. I hope people will take a chance on me until I can get them again. First I have to clear a workspace on the table.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
28 Apr 17
@drannhh The only games I've played weren't computer games. I played JOTTO with my mom because she loved it. I played Boggle with my nephew when I was homeschooling him. Our family liked to play UNO and SKIPBO. so I played with them and enjoyed it because of the family interaction.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
27 Apr 17
For some reason, I've never wanted to play games. I'd rather read for entertainment. It is my birthday now, but I didn't tell Facebook. I don't want people who never interact with me to feel they have to stop by on my birthday. Thank you for your wishes. There's only one person I know besides real estate and insurance agents who sometimes remembers. I'm feeling like I might be a year older.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
27 Apr 17
I am going there. I am sure I will like it there.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
27 Apr 17
@bagarad I just joined and got two wrong - shameless really. 800 points so far.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
28 Apr 17
@allknowing At the end of my second day, I have 32,435 points. I've missed lots of new words during assessments. I'm sure I've learned at least 30 new words in these two days.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
27 Apr 17
Use to be facebook... thats just full of sad posts and drama these days.. so just here now
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
27 Apr 17
I still have real-life friends and family on Facebook and very little drama. I just don't have enough time to spend a lot of it there.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
28 Apr 17
@Courtlynn Maybe your friends are younger than mine. I think us oldies don't have as much energy for all the drama as the young do. We spend it all trying to stay alive and functioning.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
27 Apr 17
@bagarad all my fb friends are real life friends and family. No strangers allowed. But lots of these people are drama filled.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
27 Apr 17
Thanks for sharing it with us! Vocabulary.com. is a great help to us,especially a native speaker of Chinese.Now I am here on Mylot ,besides China daily website.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
29 Apr 17
@bagarad Yes,Chinese is a difficult language to learn with different Chinese characters having the same sound.However I find out the same with English in this respect.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
2 May 17
@changjiangzhibin89 I don't mean the characters. It seems that the same sound can stand for different words depending on the tone or pitch you say them in. It's almost like singing. The same sound sung on a different note may mean something else. Or at least that's what I've been told.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
28 Apr 17
I admire anyone Chinese who learns English. I don't think I could learn Chinese because it's so dependent on recognizing sounds. I have a bad ear for non-English sounds. I can't hear all the sounds in Slavic languages. I have a lot of Chinese friends, but they all learned English before or after coming to America. Many were born here.
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@cmoneyspinner (9221)
• Austin, Texas
27 Apr 17
I don't use the site. But now that I know about it I can. Do you also Easy Bib. Remember when you had to turn in research papers. Did you hate doing the bibliography? I did! This tool does it for you.
Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
27 Apr 17
I have never been to this site it does sound interesting, i spend the most time on ancestry.com and newspapers.com
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
27 Apr 17
@bagarad I do alot of Genealogy so it comes with a price to get the best service.
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@LindaCPearson (2241)
• United States
27 Apr 17
Web addictios are not a good thing! Years ago I got addicted to Word Racer, an online competitive word game somewhat like Boggle if I remember correctly. I would play for hours until my hands, wrists and arms were in such agony I had to stop.
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