Reverse Dictionary #7

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Most of us learn the majority of our vocabulary by repeatedly hearing or reading words in a meaningful context, not by looking words up in a dictionary. The challenge here, then, is to connect a dictionary definition to a word the quiz taker has probably already learned through context and repetition. This series was never intended to be more gimmicky than that.

I would find the “last-letter-linked-to-first-letter-of-next-answer” approach impractical. Occasionally, it has come to light that multiple words with similar meanings have the same first letter. Those situations are usually easy enough to address with unlinked words, but could potentially result in a nightmare of redesign with words linked by letters.

Another series of themed word quizzes is under consideration, but this series was never intended to be anything but random. In fact, I use a random word generator to supply the answers for each quiz in this series.

Even after spending time thinking about it, I struggle to see how alphabetizing random unrelated words would make the quiz easier, more challenging, more interesting, or more desirable to take. If you can convince me there is value in alphabetizing the answers, I will consider it for future quizzes in this series.