WordShot: Learn Words Everyday

The word of the day, with its dictionary source. Five new words a day, in a few minutes: the definition, an example, where it comes from and which dictionary it is taken from. And the ones you did not know come back when they are due. Did you know melancholy comes from the Greek for black bile, the humour once blamed for the mood? That usufruct is the right to use someone else’s property without being able to sell it? That there is a whole family for the words that belong here, like gumption? HOW IT WORKS A small deck is waiting for you each day: the new words and the ones due for review, in one pile. One card, one word. Tap it and it opens. Swipe right if you already knew it, left if it is new to you. A few minutes and you are done. ALWAYS WITH A SOURCE Every entry says which reference dictionary it comes from and under which headword. No rushed definitions and no pub-quiz etymologies:…