Inform, reason, and persuade with precision and clarity by expanding your vocabulary!

vocab.games is a suite of games and tools built from vocabulary-building best-practices.

• git clone the repo
• npm install to install the dependencies
• Get a API key from https://dictionaryapi.com/ and select the Collegiate Dictionary as the API Request
• Store your API key in an .env file with variable name: REACT_APP_DICTIONARY_KEY

Build your vocabulary in chunks of algorithmically generated, semi-related words, or choose specific words of personal interest (if you're a rebel like that).

Download your vocabulary as a JSON file. It's your vocabulary, after all.

Upload your vocabulary as a JSON file. IDGAF!

Like any good game, vocab.games tracks your vocabulary metrics and calculates a score for you to assign personal meaning to and brag about to your friends.

Play Hinky Pinky to hone your synonym-searching skills through numero-syllabic restrictions!

Did you know that "evil buddy" is a hinky pinky of "bad dude?" That's like 5 points.

Fill challenges your ability to fill-in-the-blank with just the right word.

Play Hang Man to develop your deductive reasoning and learn new words to add to your vocabulary.

• ReactJS
• HotKeys.js
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary with Audio
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Thesaurus

The Build page can be searched for words valid to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and will suggest alternative words if no word is found but adjacent-enough words are.

Hotkeys work.

console.log reports data having to do with searched words in the sessionVocabulary.

At the moment no dictionary definitions display, and users cannot add their own vocabulary data (definitions, quotes, connections) yet.