Visual Thesaurus is another web tool that shows dictionary and thesaurus entries graphically in a web format. Visual Thesaurus is a paid service, however users can try it out for free. After you type in a word into the search box, results will show up in a web. Words are color coded by part of speech. If you click on one of the words in the web, search results for that word will be shown. Synonyms are connected to the searched word by gray lines and antonyms are connected by red dotted lines. The search results for the word "find" is shown to the left.
VocabGrabber a free tool on the Visual Thesaurus website. This tool analyzes a piece of text shows the results as a word cloud. Users can then sort the text by relevance, alphabetically, number of occurrences, or familiarity. You can also show words in certain subject areas such as geography, people, math, science, etc. If you click on any of the resuts, you can see related words in a web format. The image below shows the results for Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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