Just click on the VocabGrabber "bookmarklet" and the VocabGrabber will immediately start grabbing the vocabulary from whatever page you're reading in your browser. Once installed, you'll be able to use the VocabGrabber on any online text without having to copy and paste. But you can choose any combination of scores by clicking on the bars under "Show Relevance." How can I add VocabGrabber to my browser toolbar? In the top right-hand corner, click on the button next to "Add VocabGrabber to your Toolbar." Then follow the directions for your browser to install the VocabGrabber directly on your toolbar. By default, the vocab list displays words with relevance 2 through 5, leaving off the words that score only 1 and are therefore least significant. That allows us to zero in on which words are most significant for the average reader. We calculate relevance by comparing how frequently words are used in the text versus how they are used in written English overall. How can I filter my list by relevance? (And what is relevance, anyway?) All the words in your vocab list are ranked with a relevance score of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most relevant to the text. Subjects include academic areas of interest (Arts & Literature, Science, and Social Studies), names of historical figures and places (People and Geography), and words that are of particular importance for language learners at all levels (Vocabulary). The number in parentheses next to the subject name indicates how many words in the text match the subject. But if you want to focus on vocabulary in one or more particular subjects, just click the appropriate box or boxes. How can I filter my list by subject? Your list will initially have the "Show All Words" box checked. To reverse any of these orderings, just click on the name of the option again to toggle the list order. The other options allow you to sort your list alphabetically, by number of occurrences in the text, or by how familiar the words are in written English overall. By default the words are arranged from most relevant to least relevant. How can I sort my vocabulary list? Above the word list you'll see four different sorting options: Relevance, A-Z, Occurrences, and Familiarity. Or you can select "gallery" view, displaying a thumbnail image of each word's map in the Visual Thesaurus. You can also choose "list" view, which will give you the vocab list in a table, with columns displaying each word's subject areas, relevance score, and number of occurrences in the text. The color of the words is based on whether they match one of our seven subject areas (Arts & Literature, Geography, Math, People, Science, Social Studies, Vocabulary). In the tag cloud, words that appear most frequently in the text are displayed in a larger font size. In the default view, words in the vocab list are arranged by relevance (more on that below!). Want to try it out? Click on one of our sample texts to fill the box and start grabbing! How can I view my vocabulary list? After you grab the vocabulary from a text, you will see a list of words and phrases in "tag cloud" view. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. How does Vocabgrabber work? VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context.
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