prerequisite
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A thing that is required as a prior condition for something else to happen or exist.
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Lexome captures the words you meet in your real reading, then writes you a short story every day that puts them to work — in the field you actually operate in. Same reading habit. Different result: the words you look up become words you own.
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A thing that is required as a prior condition for something else to happen or exist.
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1 of 3 · Save a word in under two seconds
Highlight a word while you read. Lexome enriches it and saves it to your vault — without leaving the page.
What arrives every morning
A short story written for your field, using the words you saved this week. You don’t review them. You read something worth reading, and they come back on their own.
The memo landed on a Friday, which was itself a signal. For months the desk had treated the merger as a foregone conclusion — a prerequisite for the quarter’s numbers rather than a question still open. Then the regulator’s letter circulated, and the confluence of a softening market and a hostile filing turned certainty into something the partners no longer wanted to disseminate in writing. Leverage, it turned out, cuts both ways.
Dictionary tabs and flashcard apps train you for a loop: look up, skim the definition, close the tab. Within a day the word is gone. No compounding. No system. Just repeated lookups on the same vocabulary, year after year.
That friction adds up — roughly 15 hours a month spent re-learning words you already met, with nothing to show for it.
How fast an unreviewed word starts to fade. The forgetting curve isn’t a discipline problem — it’s how memory works without reinforcement.
Estimated time a heavy reader loses each month re-looking up words they’ve already met.
Words that compound when nothing you look up connects to how you actually work.
You don’t forget words because you didn’t try hard enough. You forget them because you met them once, in isolation, with no reason to keep them. A word you meet again — in a sentence you actually wanted to read, about something you actually do — has somewhere to live. Not more repetition. Better context.
ISOLATED DEFINITION
PARADIGM (n.)
A typical example or pattern.
Easy to dismiss. Easy to forget.
YOUR CONTEXT
“When the board approved the pivot, it wasn’t a tweak — it was a paradigm shift. The confluence of timing and traction gave them leverage nobody could ignore.”
Memorable because it’s built from words you captured.
Ctrl + Shift + D on desktop, or share from any app on mobile — under two seconds. Nothing to install mid-sentence beyond Lexome itself.
Every word you encounter becomes a row in your personal corpus: searchable, dated, and ready for review — not scattered across tabs and screenshots.
Every morning, a short story written in your professional domain, built from the words in your vault. You don’t sit down to review — you read something worth reading, and the words come back on their own.
From the builder,
I built Lexome because I had this exact problem: words I cared about, reading I took seriously — and every tool treated me like I was memorizing for a quiz.
I want something that respects how professionals actually learn: through context they chose, at the level they operate. So I’m building it in public — architecture, tradeoffs, mistakes included.
If that transparency matters to you, you’ll know what you’re backing.
If your ideas run ahead of the words you can deploy in English, Lexome closes that gap — without infantilizing drills or generic word lists.
You lead in English every week. Grammar isn’t the issue — precision is. You need the vocabulary that signals authority in board decks and client rooms, not textbook filler.
You read papers and cases at a high level, but your expressive range still lags behind your analytical one. You want language that matches your intellectual standard.
You’re fluent in your domain’s jargon in another language — but in English, you still reach for the same safe words. Lexome grows the vocabulary that matches your expertise.
I’m opening Lexome to a small first group — enough to get it right before opening it wider. If that’s you, leave your email and I’ll reach out.
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