Look up vocabulary
Look up a word while reading and optionally save it as a vocabulary card.
Before you start
- An open text in the reader — Open a text
Steps
- Right-click (or use your device’s equivalent context action) on a word in the source text. In English Primary Language mode, you can also hover a highlighted original-language word.
- Wait for the lookup tooltip to show a definition or gloss.
- Click Save if you want the word in your review library.
What happens
- Lookup does not add a card until you click Save.
- The tooltip lists the dictionary form under Lemma and its grammatical role in this sentence under Used here as — for an inflected word, the heading shows the form you read with the lemma beneath it.
- If the word is already in your library for this text, the tooltip may show it as already saved (Saved / already in library).
- Saving creates a card you can review in Play.
Troubleshooting
- “Could not look up this word”: try again, or pick a different token (punctuation-only selections are not lookupable).
- No Save control: wait for the lookup to finish loading.