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by the_florist 724 days ago
The timeless elegance of Caslon.

Features to discover vocabulary are on the drawing board. In the short term, a “word-a-day” feature will recommend five words per week, but the time-tested method for a rich vocabulary is reading, so the long-term ambition is a built-in ebook reader, where saving words would be frictionless and context-aware.

In the meantime, you can browse the index, which is biased toward uncommon words:

https://flowery.app/words/a%2E%2E%2E

The ellipsis is a general operator that searches by prefix.

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Okay, thanks a bunch. I work a lot with students studying for the SAT and GRE, and something like this could be very useful for them.