Inspiration

What do you do when you're standing around brushing your teeth? Or waiting for the kettle boil? Use the time to expand your vocabulary with Alexa. The skill will help you utilise that time by reading random words, giving you the definition and some synonyms, improving your vocabulary and word power in time thats normally wasted.

What it does

Expands your vocabulary and word knowledge.

How I built it

NodeJs backend running on AWS Lambda. Word definitions are looked up using the Oxford Dictionary API (https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/documentation)

Challenges I ran into

Mostly time

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Actually finishing!

What I learned

What's next for new words

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