tenuous[ˈtenjuəs]
weak, fragile; easily broken
Synonymsfragile, weak
ExamplesThe truce is tenuous at best.
KYW is a dictionary that keeps you from forgetting what you have already learned.
Save words, share packs and go on improving your language – KYW brings them back at the right intervals.
In KYW you see the definition and type the word yourself. That way you check whether you can recall it before the right answer is in front of you, instead of merely recognising a familiar word once the card is turned over.
A slip of the finger is not ignorance, though. KYW reads the answer letter by letter and tells a misspelling apart from a genuinely wrong word.
Before you learn something new you have to be sure the old has not been forgotten, so in KYW the words in the feed come in a set order. First you review what you have started to forget, then you learn new words, and after that you can go on strengthening the weak spots. Within each stage the order is set by an algorithm that takes your results into account.
The words whose time has come. Get one wrong and it comes back at the end of the run, not in a month.
First the introduction: the words are shown together with their meaning, then you try to reproduce them. They enter the schedule only after you finish a clean round.
Working through the misses, and words taken early. This stage does not end by itself – you close the session.
Packs let you organise your dictionary the way that suits you. A finished pack can be shared by link – with friends, with students, with anyone it might serve. Packs from the shared library you can take, edit and learn from.
Words from an article about a truce: clear in the text, never there in my own speech.
The truce between the two sides remains , and officials that a lasting settlement is still far off. Talks have been twice over the same question: who pays. Both delegations are to move first, and the negotiations have reached a .
Words from the books you read, from your profession, your travels, your studies, conversations and series. Over time such a dictionary reflects not an abstract level of the language but your own experience.
How KYW grew out of a personal problem → For a classThe syllabus moves on, and the vocabulary of a finished unit stays in that finished unit. A pack built once brings it back on its own – no separate revision lesson needed.
More for teachers → For a teamEvery company has a language of its own: its industry, its terms, its counterparties. That English cannot be bought ready-made – it is collected in-house and handed to the people who work in it.
More for companies →Building a dictionary takes no manual routine. Take a list of words, a textbook page or a fragment of an article, hand it to a chatbot together with the ready-made KYW prompt, and get structured card data back: definitions, examples, transcription and whatever else you need.
And once the dictionary exists, AI stays useful – not for making cards one by one, but for working on the whole dictionary at once. Export it and give the model any task: unify the definitions, fix mistakes, group the words, fill in what is missing or change the structure. Then load the result back into KYW.
Statistics show how your dictionary changes over time: what has settled, what needs attention and how much reviewing lies ahead. You see not only the result, but how you got there. Watch the number of words you genuinely know grow.
Pick a language and a level – we will assemble a trial account with a ready dictionary and statistics. Everything inside works like the real thing. Progress is not saved: your own words live only in your own account.
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