lambent
Adjective
Hold a meaning to study just that one · 1 on the card
Word origin
From Latin lambēns, present participle of lambere “to lick” — a flame that licks at what it touches.
Examples
Forms & conjugations
Notes
Not *lambaste*. Think lamp — a low, licking light. ✎
Every entry in the same fixed order — and every word inside it is its own lookup. Hold a meaning to put exactly that sense on the flashcard.
The whole English Wiktionary extract — every lemma, sense, quotation and inflection — is bundled inside the app as one SQLite file with an FTS5 index. Results refresh within a single frame of each keystroke, in airplane mode, on a train.
Every part of speech that shares a headword is merged into one ranked result, so muse the noun and muse the verb are one card, not two.
Prefix match over every headword. Frequency rank at right; inflected forms route to their lemma.
The Reader pulls in whatever is on your clipboard the moment you open it — headings and bold survive, because it reads the HTML flavour too — and lays it out like a sheet of paper. Then it does the thing paper can’t:
The sky had gone the colour of pewter, and the lamps along the quay burned with a lambent, uncertain light. Marguerite was taciturn at breakfast; her brother, never one to stint on conversation, filled the silence with garrulous speculation about the tide.
By noon the halyards were thrumming, and the harbourmaster — a man of famously saturnine temperament — had begun, quietly, to demur.
saturnine
Tap a marked word — an inflected form finds its lemma.
Add a word to any list from anywhere — search, reader, mid-review. A list can hold words and other lists, nested as deep as you like, and a folder behaves exactly like a list: press ▶ Study once and every word inside it, at any depth, is enrolled. Pause, reset or remove the whole subtree the same way.
Folders resolve to their whole subtree — one tap studies, pauses or resets everything inside.
Word Wizard schedules with SuperMemo-2, the same family Anki grew out of. Each card carries its own ease factor; every Good multiplies the interval by it, Hard nudges by 1.2×, and Again sends it back to tomorrow. Try it — the demo on the right runs the app’s actual scheduler.
Tapping a card asks Did you know it? first. Say no — or swipe left — and the headword is covered back up before a recall game runs. The game is keyed to the side you were asked for: a word card asks you to rebuild the meaning; a meaning card asks you to produce the word. After the reveal, a second panel works the other half, so every review touches both. None of it changes your grade — a game that fed into grading would reward guessing at tiles instead of knowing the word.
2 of 8 revealed · tap a tile for one more · 🎲
Each day gets a Mini, a Midi and a Mega, built to American convention — 180° symmetry, no entry under three letters, every square checked, one connected grid — and anchored on the words in your study pool, with a theme that follows the day of the week. Solving a clue counts as a review: producing a word from a definition is exactly what the meaning → word card asks for.
Click a square and type — the cursor skips squares that are already filled.
The second daily game is a sixteen-letter board: drag through adjacent tiles to find words. Each board is built around up to two of your study words — due cards first — and one word from the day’s theme, placed jointly so they can share tiles. If an anchor won’t fit, the board says which one it dropped rather than quietly claiming it.
There is no composite “vocabulary score”, no XP, no level. The one headline is words mastered — cards past 90 days with their ease intact — and everything else is reported in the unit it was measured in: reviews, minutes, days, solves.
Last 12 weeks
Games
| Game | Solved | Best | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini 5×5 | 41 | 0:48 | 1:52 |
| Midi 9×9 | 17 | 6:10 | 11:30 |
| Word Hunt | 9 | 2:57 | 5:14 |
Times are clean solves only — no letters revealed.