Few things are more impressive than an expansive vocabulary, so why not use it to your full advantage? New & Noteworthy app, Vocabology, not only enables, but encourages this. Vocabology brings you Words of the Day from multiple sources, including Urban Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and more, and even from multiple languages. This means you can constantly show off your mastery of the English language while demonstrating your worldliness with inflections of Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, and French jargon. The app encourages full absorption of your newly acquired lingo by allowing you to partake in timed quizzes, save words as favorites for later revisiting, and create your own sentences with the words that can be shared and saved as well. The app also allows you to conduct automatic web-searches of the words so you can have even more background information to boast as you casually slip them into conversation. Your friends, family, acquaintances, coworkers, peers, and everyone else you may talk to will start to wonder when and how you became so verbacious, but they don’t know the secret: you have Vocabology in your back pocket.

Gone are the days when ordering a cup of joe was simple. Now you’re faced with an overwhelming amount of options for coffee types, drink styles, preparation methods, add-ins, leave-outs, flavor profiles, the list goes on-and-on. And God forbid you order something passé, or worse, you mispronounce it. Fortunately, there’s an app to help guide you through café confusion and introduce you to the exciting and enticing realm of espresso. If you’ve been daunted by the condensed coffee form until now and not understood how a macchiato, mocha, and mochachino differ, then Spro has the savvy you need. Straight from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, Spro delivers instructions on how to craft 14 different espresso-based drinks. This is useful if you dare to make it yourself, or if you’re simply curious about what goes into various concoctions. Furthermore, Spro gives you the correct pronunciation of each drink name as well as the history behind each drink, so you can at least feign the requisite knowledge and sophistication when indulging in your beverage. Spro also inspires your palate with their Drink of the Week and encourages espresso explorations with their Create-A-Drink tool, which enables you to combine various ingredients and see what happens. Whether you’re simply curious about the myriad options available at coffee shops, you are trying to enter the world of espresso, or you are a seasoned coffee snob, Spro is guaranteed to trigger your tastebuds.

Love the benefit of reward, loyalty, and membership cards but hate having to lug them around with you everywhere you go (or worse, being caught without one when you need it)? With CardStar on your iPhone, this conundrum is cured. CardStar enables you to enter all card information for regional and national merchants, including but not limited to grocery stores, gyms, pharmacies and specialty stores, so that you can access all your frequents through the app with one click. Furthermore, you can check in with Foursquare integration, access Groupons, and take advantage of save-to-card grocery coupons from Zavers, and use the app to discover even more deals and promotions from your various merchants of interest. Finally, CardStar makes accessing your favorite locations even easier by providing you with merchant and contact information as well as store locators. Get rid of the plastic but not the rewards; CardStar makes loyalty even better.