What's embarrassing for me about the hundred word game is how easy it is to play it.

The game is to take an English dictionary and write down a hundred words with their definitions that I don't know the word or it's a word I know that has a whole other definition I never heard of.

I write down the word and the shortest possible definition to help me remember, as I'm a zillion time more likely to remember things I write down.

I don't write down things like Latin words for medical conditions or plants, but rather real words (what I call real words) that I might possibly read or write.

It is so easy to find a hundred words I don't know. I blush at how easy it is.

It's easy to again and again find a hundred words I don't know.

It feels more useful to play the game with a smaller, college-size dictionary because it makes it more likely that I might run across the words again.

Learn words and humility in one. Not bad.

It's not like I remember all hundred words, but some stick and then when I read them, I know what they mean, instead of making a guess fuzzy or wrong, and instead of skipping them without thinking about it.