improve my vocabulary

I came across the site, www.freerice.com, and this is such a helpful vocabulary builder! It gives you a word, and asks you to pick a synonym of that word, and they get harder each time you get one right, and easier every time you get one wrong. Plus, it is donating 20 grains of rice towards the fight against world hunger for every answer you get right. And no money paid! What a deal! But I have learned so many words, like soleus means calf muscle. I don’t think I am going to make entries for all of the words on there… but I will make several large entries of 20 words or so that I really like. I’m not sure when, but after a while, I am going to have someone make a quiz of words that I have on my list, and words on that site, and any words in between, and I will see how I do. When I can get above 75% on a test of about 500 difficult words or so, then I would say that this goal would be complete. =]

1. To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
2. To scold sharply; to attack verbally; to berate.

(I stole this… Im sry… I love this word!)

to go into an ecstasy; to cause to become ecstatic

The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal

keeping safe and healthy; preserving from danger

to name or call

I can understand giving a name to a dog, but who vocitates their houseplants?

i like this one☼

continued passion; an unyielding disease

with respect to; as regards

keen; deadly

plain interpretation of a thing