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The vocabulary is very helpful. However, as an app, it has so many failures and shortcomings it’s almost impossible to use anymore. Not once, but twice it has completely lost hundreds of cards of progress that I had to go back and spend forever redoing. If you accidentally answer wrong or tap past a word you don’t actually know, there is no going back and you have to wait until that card pops up again randomly (and if you know it but answered wrong once, you have to answer it right 3+ times for it to register that you know it). You have no control over the order of the words or any options to view the word lists; you get them randomly, one at a time. If you want to go back and review a few words from a set, you have to also go through the 47 words you know 3+ times each to find those few words you want. I’m seriously considering just taking the time to manually enter these words into a quizlet set so that I can get the vocabulary words with an actually good digital flash card system.

The fact that all these cards are available for free and can be reviewed with no distractions makes this app five-stars, but this app has some issues that keeps me from giving it that rating. Developers, please add a button that allows me to review every card, one after the other, in a deck in a randomized order. At the very list, add a feature where you can see a list every word in a deck. I get so frustrated by the current card randomization algorithm. Once a deck is learned and I go back to review it, sometimes I’ll miss a few. But when I revisit a deck, I want to review ALL of the cards in the deck. Something happens where if I won’t see every card. I’ll get to a point in the revisit where I’ll just keep getting the same cards, and when I come back at a different time or day, then I’ll start seeing some new cards. I’d really like to be able to just go straight through the cards, and if I miss one, maybe shuffle that back in to the rest of the remaining stack until it is “learned,”

I recognize the words from all sections of the test. You need to learn these words. There’s a definition, part of speech and each word is used in a sentence. Each time you look at the word, then you see the definition, then you tell it if you knew it or not. Even after you say you know it, the word stays in rotation in order to review. It isn’t a set rotation, so you don’t start predicting the words. The words are in groups of about 50 words. You have to work on them one group at a time, but you can work on any given group at any time. If I see the same words too much in group, I’ll switch over to another group. This helps me internalize the words better. The only suggestion I have is the option to see all your words, preferably grouped by unseen, learning, reviewing or mastered. It also might be a good tool to have matching games with it. Either matching definitions or synonyms or even antonyms. This would be good practice for the select two words section. Thanks for your help Magoosh!