This is a simple program I’ve written to help with vocabulary homework. Find it here on my GitHub.

I’ve written it in Python as the webbrowser library is relatively easy to use.

You basically input words and terminate input with the word “end”. A tab will open corresponding to each input word on your defailt web browser. I used the Merriam-Webster dictionary as it’s interface is clean and definitions are well presented.

I don’t know how efficient this is compared to the conventional method or if it is even worth it but it’s a hobby of mine and I hope you’ll appreciate it (especially Mr.K.P’s students :P)

Sample Input:

input

Sample Ouput:

output

For newbies

You can run this program on any pc as long as you have python installed.

Follow these steps:

  1. Download and install Python from here (I used Python2’s syntax so download Python2.X.X)

  2. Download the .py file

  3. Double-click on the file and it should run

I know these steps are quite long but I will soon work on a simple windows application for the program which would not require Python. Contact me if you run across any problems.

I will update this post when I will write an .exe application for the program. Stay tuned :)

Update:

Two tabs per word, one on merriam-webster and one on oxford web dictionary

wordfinder_1.2

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