Cross-platform dictionary and vocabulary building command line tool

Pyvoc

Use it to improve your english vocabulary, brush up some word meanings or as a simple command line dictionary.

Jump to:

• Installation
• Usage
• Groups
• Examples
• todo

Installation

Install it using pip. Just run:

pip3 install pyvoc

Usage

After installing pyvoc, run pyvoc word to automatically create necessary config files in your home directory.

• Fetch meaning of word

pyvoc word

• Fetch meaning of word and add it to vocabulary group:

pyoc word -a

• Take quiz of 20 questions from vocabulary group 101:

pyvoc 101 -q 30

read some more examples

➜ pyvoc -h
usage: pyvoc [-h] [-a] [-g G] [-r] [-q QUIZ] [-l] word

command line dictionary and vocabulary building tool

positional arguments:
  word                  give meaning of WORD

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --add             add WORD to vocabulary group
  -g G                  {optional} group no.(1-50) to add the WORD to
  -r, --revise          revise a vocabulary group (WORD is group number).
  -q QUIZ, --quiz QUIZ  starts quiz, WORD is group no. and QUIZ is no. of
                        questions
  -l, --list            list all user made vocabulary groups

groups

pyvoc lets you add words to vocabulary groups, which you can later revise or take quiz from.

• 100 groups of 60 words are reserved for the user.
• pyvoc incrementally add words to groups 51-100, if group number is not provided.
• you can specify a group from 1-50 using [-g] option. (helpful when you want to organize some words yourself)
• 3 refined, custom groups of 800 words each (words taken from GRE and SAT preparation websites) already present.
• these groups are 101, 102 and 103.

Examples

add word to a specific group

pyvoc word -a -g 5

Fetch meaning of the word and add it to vocabulary group 5. Use this option to organize words however you like.

for example

• alphabatically
• words from books you have been reading
• parts of speech
• increasing difficulty

revise a group

pyvoc 51 -r

revise word meaning of vocabulary group 51(if present) in random order.

show group list

pyvoc word -l

Fetch meaning of word and lists all group numbers along with their size.

todo

• [ ] make the code more pythonic (continuous process)
• [ ] add options to revise by pattern a particular group. (like all the words starting with 's')
• [ ] show the word-meaning user got wrong at the end of quiz.
• [ ] add option to show all the words added by the user to groups.
• [ ] increase the number of custom groups
• [ ] also show custom groups in [-l] option