Regarding prompts. Each word has a lot of meanings in a lot of contexts. So instead of filling up the screen with 4 to 5 meanings I thought it will be better to display the first meaning and ask the user whether he wants to display the rest of the meanings. Ya it might annoy the user. I will look at more options.

I haven't referred to Net::Dict . I will look at it. The reason I have created the script is that I am not often connected to the internet so an offline dictionary will be helpful and also the word list is editable and can be used for ones purposes like a word game, flash cards, etc.

I have created this app primarily for Linux as many Windows users don't use Terminal IMO. So a CPAN distro will be nice as most Linux distros come with Perl. But I am thinking of using Cava or PAR to make it a single package.

I haven't build a package yet and I am a newbie. You can conribute to the project by building up a package if you find yourself free.