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Words is a multilingual offline dictionary

Words is a multilingual dictionary activity for the Sugar environment.

Words activity is relatively easy to use. There are four text boxes; one for typing text, one gives synonyms, one gives you the translated text, and the last gives you the meaning of the translated text.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/sugarlabs/words-activity
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Developer: Chris Ball, Madeleine Ball, Sebastian Silva, Rafael Ortiz, Reinier Heeres, Gonzalo Odiard, James Cameron
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Words in action
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