Consider the thesaurus

Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi

This is the best vocabulary test I found (of the three I tried):

https://preply.com/en/learn/english/test-your-vocab

What to expect: first, they give you a grid of 50 words, ranging from really easy to really hard. I knew probably 90% of these. But then based on what you select, it gives you a second group of words that’s at the edge of your zone, wh

Dean’s Thesaurus: 1,000 words to save us from extinction (logo: dinosaur)

The thesaurus sucks. You can always tell when a writer is using a thesaurus and random words are substituted to sound smart. The problem is the thesaurus has a bad architecture. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!). Since we don't have a hierarchy of "core words" and "s

Imagine a “situational thesaurus.” Instead of just unpacking related words, you unpack all the contexts that a word can apply. Examples:

• addle — social media, work, disinformation (dilution from quantity)

• faustian — VR / AGI or e/acc, finance, cloning, influencers, adderall, steroids

• platonic — solids, relationships, education, leisure, cognition