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by lowatt 1412 days ago
Nice app. Keep every word queried in a list and revisit them to enhance memory. This is exactly the same way I expanded my English vocabulary 10 years ago.

My simplistic solution was a command-line script which googles "define {word}" and extracts the definition into the console. The query history is appended to a text file (partitioned by date) saved in Dropbox.

Someone tried to use it in an Alfred workflow. Don't know if they made it or not. It seems it's hard to query google in a script now.