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lexicow shows you one academic English word at a time — the kind of word that decides TOEFL and IELTS scores. No lists, no flashcard decks, no streaks to maintain. One word, one page, one small interaction.

The interaction is the point. On each page, the word's meaning is acted out by the page itself: tap the scene under disperse and the dots scatter; touch the page on ephemeral and your mark fades away. Research on vocabulary acquisition consistently finds that words tied to an experience are remembered far better than words tied to a translation. We give every word a tiny experience.

Below each word you will find a real definition, three natural example sentences, synonyms, and a short note on how that word typically behaves in TOEFL and IELTS — where it appears, which collocations examiners reward, which traps to avoid.

The vocabulary is drawn from the Academic Word List and from words that appear repeatedly in past exam materials. Use the arrows (or your keyboard's ← → keys) to walk the list alphabetically, or switch to random and wander.

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