Vocabulary Discoverer Menus

  1. Opens the Flash Card Creator with a blank set
  2. Opens the Flash Card Creator with a specified flash card set
  3. Opens the Flash Card Viewer with a specified flash card set
  4. Like the language buttons, allows you to specify which language's vocabulary to display
  5. Exit the Vocabulary Discoverer
  1. While adding a meaning, cuts highlighted text into the clipboard
  2. Copies any highlighted text into the clipboard
  3. While adding a meaning, copies text from the clipboard
  4. The Letter Tool allows you to add accented and other European characters when typing a new meaning.
  5. Use this to clear the Progress graph, the Word Map and all other indicators of the words you know (i.e. that have been ticked, see the help on the word entry).
  1. The audio options dialog provides some settings for the playback in the example sentence.


    If the fly-over setting is ticked, when the mouse pointer is above a word (or phrase which is pronounced as one sound), the audio for that word (if a track exists) will be automatically played.
    You an also set the reading speed for which a sentence is played back. You can listen to it at normal reading speed, or a single word at a time so you can develop your listening skills at your own pace.
  2. (French version only) This option will display a definite or indefinite article if available in front of nouns. This provides a natural way to learn the gender of nouns. A definite article (le or la) will be displayed when the noun starts with a consonant, otherwise, an indefinite article is displayed (un or une).
  3. The (Ergane) meanings are available for 21 languages. You can switch between them using this option.
  1. Help will display these help pages
  2. Acknowledgements for data used to build the Vocabulary Discoverer
  3. Go to the Lexis Rex web site
  4. Copyright notice
  5. Selecting this option will take you to a secure online payment system. Payment will activate the product and enable you to download the full set of vocabulary data files. Before paying make sure you test the download operation (see below). If you are behind a firewall and the test download fails there's no point paying! But you can contact us for a possible alternative access.
  6. Once you have paid you will be emailed a license key. Select this option to open a dialog where you will be able to enter the key and activate the product.
  7. See the above discussion regarding using this option to test you are able to download the full vocabulary data files. If it does fail it could be because you are behind a firewall and Internet Explorer has not been set up correctly to use a proxy. Try ensuring you can surf the web using Internet Explorer from behind the firewall. Hopefully the set-up required for IE will also enable the downloading via this software.
  8. Once you have entered your license key above you should now be able to use this option to download all vocabulary data files. For French this will also download all the available audio files.
  9. Use this option to cancel the download.