English Vocabulary with Meanings
Every English word from the Akshara word game with its everyday meaning — the same reviewed definitions players see at the end of each level.
This is the complete playable English vocabulary of Akshara, with the same reviewed definitions players see in the game. The interesting work here was sense selection: scholarly dictionaries order senses in ways that baffle players — "at" leading with a unit of Laotian currency is a real example — so more than twelve thousand entries were re-glossed to their everyday meaning, and every definition passes the same family-content gate as the words themselves.
The full account is in From raw dictionary data to meanings you can actually use.
A taste of the vocabulary
- aaa
- an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
- angola
- a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean
- balloon
- large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
- bmi
- a measure of someone's weight in relation to height
- bust
- an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
- clasp
- the act of grasping
- crave
- plead or ask for earnestly
- des
- synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen
- durban
- a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean
- factory
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- foreign
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- govern
- direct or strongly influence the behavior of
- heinz
- United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
- income
- the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
- knock
- the act of hitting vigorously
- locus
- the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions
- mayan
- a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya
- mri
- the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
- off
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- payoff
- a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
- postwar
- belonging to the period after a war
- rating
- act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
- rome
- the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
- seating
- the service of ushering people to their seats
- skating
- the sport of gliding on skates
- spotted
- having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture)
- swan
- stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- tijuana
- a Mexican city just to the south of San Diego on the Lower California peninsula
- tyne
- a river in northern England that flows east to the North Sea
- wallet
- a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money