Word Of The Day!

Word Of The Day!

Displays one new vocabulary word each day, it's definition and an example sentence from around the web.

What is Word Of The Day!?
"Word Of The Day!" is a handy Chrome extension designed to enhance your vocabulary skills. Every day, it introduces users to a new word, accompanied by its definition and 1-2 example sentences pulled from various sources on the web. The extension does not update over weekends. It's gone through several versions, with improvements made to UI, font, color choices, data handling and fixed issues like spacing and broken links.
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Stats
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.00 (19)
Version: 1.5.1 (Last updated: 2014-09-04)
Creation date: 2014-09-04
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://api.wordnik.com/
Size: 79.78K
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Summary

Word Of The Day! displays one new vocabulary word each day and it's definition, along with 1-2 example sentences from around the web.

Note: Vocabulary words do not update over the weekend.

v 1.2 changes: minor bug fixes, font and color updates. v 1.3 changes: design/UI updates. v 1.4 changes: fixed word spacing and broken links. v 1.5 changes: Updated data handling

Please comment with feature/improvement suggestions! :-)

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Helps in learning new words
  • Intuitive and simple UX
  • Supports multiple accounts
Cons
  • Cannot change the time of new word appearance
  • Does not have a pronunciation feature
  • Doesn't store previous words for review
  • Doesn't always work
Most mentioned
  • Request for more words per day
  • Need for a pronunciation feature
  • Option to change the time of new word appearance
  • Need for history or list feature to revisit old words
Recent reviews
been using this across multiple accounts my grandson loves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Madeleine Meyers Madeleine Meyers, 2022-07-29

It would be even better if you could see a list of all the words you've seen on the extension so far! So far great though!
by jbota jbota, 2020-07-23

Great job but can you please put at least 3 in a day it would easy to gain more knowledge quickly....
by Sara Richard Sara Richard, 2020-03-19
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Safety
Risk impact

Word Of The Day! is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Word Of The Day! has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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