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lex·e·um
/ˈlek.si.əm/ · noun
A place of words. From lexis — word — and -eum, a place; as in museum, athenaeum.
The vocabulary app for readers. Lexeum is a curated library of the words that Brontë, Dickens and Woolf assumed you knew — each one illustrated, taught in British English, and revisited until it is yours for good.
Coming soon to iOS and Android · Your first 25 words are free
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reverie
Definition
State of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts, as if daydreaming
Example
A faint smile crossed her lips as she gazed out the window, lost in a reverie of summer days.
About
A reverie is a dreamy, half-conscious state where your mind drifts away from what is happening around you. The word carries a gentle, pleasant quality: it suggests wandering thoughts rather than focused thinking. People are often described as falling into a reverie when they gaze out of a window or sit quietly by a fire, and someone 'lost in reverie' is so deep in thought that the world around them goes unnoticed. The word comes from the French rêver, meaning to dream.
Examples
From a reverie of this kind, as she sat at her drawing-table, she was roused one morning, soon after Edward’s leaving them, by the arrival of company.
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
From the Lexeum library
gloaming · garrulous · gossamer · languor · sepulchral · wistful · furtive · soporific · garret · dappled · pallid · gaunt · knell · at sixes and sevens
You have met these words before — and read past them. Lexeum is where you stop reading past them.
How it works
Meet. Practise. Keep.
A session is about ten quick exercises — a mix of new words and reviews. Five minutes with your coffee, and the library compounds.
Practise it eight ways
Thirteen exercises per word, drawn from eight types and sequenced across your sessions — from recognising it in context to spelling it unaided.
Keep it for good
Spaced repetition brings each word back just before you would forget it. Prove it again on schedule, and it graduates to mastered.
3→
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28
days
Learning
Reviewing
Mastered
Try them
Practise reverie, eight ways.
You met the word above. These are its real exercises from the library, one of each type — the sentences, choices and explanations the app itself serves.
Every word gets thirteen of these across the eight types, spread over its sessions.
The stars seemed, to the boy’s eyes, farther from the earth than he had ever seen them before; there was no wind; and the sombre shadows thrown by the trees upon the ground, looked sepulchral and death-like, from being so still.
Inside every word
Built like a lesson, not a flashcard.
Every entry in the library is made to the same standard — the depth is the product.
Original illustration
A scene made for the word, so the meaning arrives as a picture, not a paraphrase.
British English throughout
Every headword spoken aloud, every spelling the British way — sombre, draught, smoulder and all.
Plain-English definition
The core meaning in one clear line, in the plain style of a good learner's dictionary.
A word-lover's note
How the word behaves — its shades, its settings, the phrases it keeps company with.
Literary examples
Verbatim lines from the Brontës, Dickens, Wilde — the word at work where it lives.
Thirteen exercises
Drawn from eight types that climb from recognition to judgement to production — the hardest, spelling, comes last.
Free and Pro
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Your first 25 words are free, and they get everything a Pro word gets. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing to cancel. When you have learned them, Lexeum Pro opens the rest of the library.
Free
- Your first 25 words
- Every exercise type and review
- Streaks, mastery and progress
- Cloud backup with sign-in
Lexeum Pro
- Every word beyond your free 25
- A library that keeps growing — new words added regularly
- Priced by your app store, in your local currency
- Cancel anytime