The Command Line Tool to help expand your English vocabulary and familiarize you with those elusive words.
A fast and easily accessible tool for looking up English words.
In our day-to-day life, we (atleast Eleven) often encounter words whose meaning is not clear to us. We instinctively search the word up for meanings, synonyms, antonyms and what not. There are a lot of traditional ways I used to solve this problem:
- Dictionary Sites
The problem with dedicated vocabulary sites are twofold:
- the information is too overwhelming
- their is too much work to lookup
These are the major impediments I faced while working with sites such as Vocabulary.com and other dictionaries.
- Search Engines
For some time I have used many word meaning Google searches to help me get the necessary information.
However, this ad-hoc method is not a viable option from the point of longetivity since one is unable to record his progress.
Same goes for define word in DuckDuckGo.
- Physical Dictionary
- Not portable
- Save trees?
I built lexico as utility which will provide me with all the relevant information related to words while keeping track of my learnings. Hope this helps you as well!
- Meanings
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Examples
- Phrases
- Hyphenation
- Audio
- Text Pronunciations
Step 01: Grab your Wordnik API key from the Settings in your Wordnik Account. Log into your account here; create one if you do not already have one.
Step 02: Initialize the vocabulary by running the command: $ lexico init
Step 03: Provide the API key when prompted.
You will get a success message if the vocabulary was setup with no issues.
However, if you face any issues, let me know here.
Now that we have the application up and running, it's time to search for a word.
There are 2 ways to lookup a word for your convenience.
-
Run :
$ lexico add.
Enter the word when your are prompted to do so. -
Try:
$ lexico add <your_word>
The command $ lexico view displays all the words in your vocabulary with associated metadata.
The latest version of the package is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip through:
$ python3 -m pip install lexico
Suggestion: The use of a virtual environment is highly recommended.
Step 01: Fork and clone the repository.
Step 02: Change to the package folder: $ cd lexico
Step 03: Install the dependencies: $ pip install -r requirements.txt
Step 04: Install the package: $ python3 setup.py install
Step 01: Create a new branch based on the updated master.
Step 02: Make the changes and push it.
Step 03: Open up a PR against the master of this repository.
- Adding unit tests
- Import words from Kindle lookups
- Export current vocabulary in consumable format(e.g. CSV)
- Cusotmizable CLI
NOTE: The project is under heavy development and the code has only been tested manually.
So, I won't be surprised if things break unexpectedly. Do report them as issues.
The most common issue that you might face currently would be connection timeouts.