Vocab generator

Creates a list of definitions, synonyms, and sentences from some given vocab words. Use with care and proceed with caution.

Setup

• Create an account on the Oxford Dictionaries developer console

• Add your API credentials to enviroment variables:

Variable name	Value
OXFORD_APP_ID	your app id
OXFORD_APP_KEY	your app key

• Use PIP to install the requests package

pip install requests

Example output

Vocab 31-40 – Alex Wohlbruck – Feb 21, 2018

1. Covert (Adjective)
not openly acknowledged or displayed
secret, furtive, clandestine
"- US Federal Law prohibits the unauthorised disclosure of a covert agent's name."

2. Stealthy (Adjective)
behaving or done in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard
furtive, secretive, secret
"I hear his soft footsteps, stealthy like a cat, stepping out of the bathroom, carrying the emptied tin bowl with him."

3. Surreptitious (Adjective)
kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of
secret, stealthy, clandestine
"Thanks to e-mail, the modern workplace is a hive of covert communication and surreptitious sociability."

4. Clandestine (Adjective)
kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit
secret, covert, furtive
"I agreed to act as though our affair were a secret, a clandestine drama to be hidden from the rest of the world."

5. Allay (Verb)
diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry)
reduce, diminish, decrease
"Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain."

6. Alleviate (Verb)
make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe
reduce, ease, relieve
"If it alleviates social problems later then it's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned."

7. Assuage (Verb)
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
relieve, ease, alleviate
"They may have over-eaten, in their desperation to assuage their hunger, or drunk themselves silly."

8. Appease (Verb)
pacify or placate (someone) by acceding to their demands
conciliate, placate, pacify
"The only thing that it can do now to appease the people would be to resign."

9. Mitigate (Verb)
make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful
alleviate, reduce, diminish
"Politics is meant to mitigate the misery to which our inborn condition consigns us, not add to it."

10. Mollify (Verb)
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone)
appease, placate, pacify
"Realising he has raised a red rag, he mollifies his provocative stance."