Become vocabulous with random word definitions on your shell.

.bashrc

# Needs jq. brew install jq.

random_word_def() {
  local random_word wordnik_for_word show_definition
  random_word() {
    perl -e 'rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <>; print $line' < /usr/share/dict/words
  }
  wordnik_for_word() {
    curl -s http://api.wordnik.com/v4/word.json/"$1"/definitions'?api_key=a2a73e7b926c924fad7001ca3111acd55af2ffabf50eb4ae5'
  }
  show_definition() {
    jq -r '{ "null":"?", "noun":"n", "verb-transitive":"t.v", "verb-intransitive":"i.v",
             "preposition":"prep", "verb":"v", "adjective":"adj",
             "phrasal-verb":"pv" } as $short |
             .[] |
             "\(.word), \($short[.partOfSpeech // "null"] // .partOfSpeech).: \(.text)"'
  }
  wordnik_for_word $(random_word) | show_definition
}
 

# if running interactively,
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  [ -f ~/.word_of_the_day ] && fold -s ~/.word_of_the_day
  ( random_word_def >| ~/.word_of_the_day & )
fi