What's on the vocabulary wheel
The twelve entries are all single-word adjectives that describe character, manner, or habit. Here's the full list: articulate, benevolent, candid, diligent, eloquent, fastidious, gregarious, humble, industrious, judicious, keen, and laconic. They sit at roughly the same difficulty level — useful for upper-primary through secondary vocabulary work — and none of them are so obscure that a dictionary isn't enough to unpack them.
Because each entry carries the same default weight, every word has an equal chance of being selected on any given spin. If you want one word to come up more often — say, to give extra practice on a word the class struggled with — tap the entry in the editor panel and raise its numeric weight above 1.
Classroom uses for the vocabulary wheel spinner
Cold-call definitions
Spin the wheel, and whichever word it lands on becomes the target. The student whose turn it is gives a definition in their own words. If they get it right, spin again for the next student. It keeps the pace quick and removes the predictability of going down a list.
Sentence construction
Spin twice: the first result is the vocabulary word; the second gives the sentence's subject (if you've swapped in character names or nouns). Alternatively, keep the wheel as-is and challenge students to write one sentence that uses both the word that won and the word just before it in the spin history — both are logged under the wheel for reference.
Synonym and antonym challenges
The word laconic is essentially the antonym of eloquent, and gregarious sits in natural contrast to humble. Spin to a word, then ask students to supply a synonym or antonym before moving on. The adjacency of meaning across this set makes it well-suited to that kind of paired thinking.
Swap in your own word list
The default twelve are a starting point, not a fixed set. Open the editor panel next to the wheel, clear the existing entries, and paste your unit's vocabulary words — one per line — into the bulk-import area. The wheel rebuilds instantly. If you teach multiple classes at different levels, you can do this at the start of each period. Note that changes aren't saved between visits, so keep your word list somewhere you can paste it back in quickly. For other ready-made classroom tools, see the classroom hub.
Hiding words mid-lesson
Once a word has been covered, hit the eye icon next to it in the editor to hide it. Hidden entries stay in the list but are skipped during spins, so you won't land on a word the class has already worked through. This is more flexible than deleting entries, because you can unhide everything at the end of the lesson for a full-class review spin. The Remove Winner toggle below the wheel does something different: it permanently deletes the winning entry after each spin, which works well for one-pass elimination games.