Buttress Vocabulary

Strengthen your vocabulary while reading things on the browser.

Buttress Vocabulary: Enhance Your Reading Skills

"Buttress Vocabulary" is a Chrome extension that allows users to easily look up definitions and pronunciations of words by double-clicking them. It tracks your daily word lookups, making it a useful vocabulary builder. Unlike other apps, it focuses on relevant words you've encountered, facilitating easier memorization in context. Plus, your privacy is assured as the extension does not access your lookup data.
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Extension stats

Users: 513
-17
Rating: 4.27
(15)
Version: 3.1.1 (Last updated: 2024-05-29)
Creation date: 2019-10-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 450.56K

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Extension summary

Coming across new words is easy and even knowing its definition. However, memorizing the words that you read doesn't come naturally. You have to work on it.

This extension will ease this job.

It lets you see the definition of a double-clicked word along with its pronunciation. However, this is not a striking feature as couple of other apps do it right now.

You can quickly see all the words that you have looked up each day. Apart from a dictionary app it is also a vocabulary builder. Like other apps it doesn't inundates you with so many words that you have never seen. Memorizing the words for which you have a context will be much easier.

WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE WORDS YOU LOOKUP!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • saves list of vocabulary
  • useful in building vocab
  • saves time
Cons
  • bug with white-out UI
  • slow pop-up dictionary
  • incompatible with Dark Reader extension
Most mentioned
  • pop up dictionary taking too long to display
  • white-out UI bug
  • saves list of vocabulary
User reviews
doesn't recognize a lot of words if they are written in a form different from the basic one, past tense specifically, makes the extension unusable
by An Chill, 2024-07-29

many words can't be selected by double-clicking.
by Arc Lin, 2023-08-28

Please update for security and add another futures.
by M Sotoudeh, 2023-06-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Buttress Vocabulary requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Buttress Vocabulary is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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