The Scenario
You're the content manager for a B2B SaaS company and you've been asked to build a glossary of 120 industry terms — a resource page that'll live on the marketing site. You have all 120 terms in column A of an Excel workbook. The glossary entry for each term needs a definition and a list of antonyms. The plan was to write the definitions by hand, but the project scope expanded last week and now the glossary is supposed to launch alongside the feature release in six days.
You're not a dictionary. You should not be spending this week transcribing definitions.
The bad version:
- Look up the APIVerve dictionary endpoint documentation, figure out the correct query parameter for word lookup, and test it against a couple of terms.
- Write a script that loops over 120 words, handles multi-word terms correctly, parses the response to extract the primary definition and the antonyms array, and writes both to the appropriate columns.
- Run the script, fix the 14 terms that returned no antonyms, and paste everything into the workbook in the right order.
Six days is not a lot of runway when the enrichment pipeline alone takes half a day to build and debug.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads your term list and, through its built-in APIVerve integration, it can look up the dictionary definition and antonyms for each word and write both into the columns you specify.
Fetch dictionary definitions and antonyms for every term in my glossary sheet and fill in the 'Definition' and 'Antonyms' columns
What You Get
- The Definition column filled with dictionary definitions for all 120 terms.
- The Antonyms column filled with antonym lists for each entry.
- Terms that return no antonyms noted rather than left blank, so you know which entries need a manual addition.
- The glossary is ready for copy editing without having involved a developer.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some terms are multi-word phrases, not single dictionary entries
For each term in column A, if it's a single word look up the definition and antonyms from APIVerve; for multi-word terms, write "Compound term — manual definition needed" in the Definition column and leave the Antonyms column blank
You also want synonyms alongside antonyms
For each word in column A, fetch the definition, antonyms, and synonyms from APIVerve and write them into the Definition, Antonyms, and Synonyms columns respectively
Some terms are duplicated in the list
Deduplicate the terms in column A (mark duplicates in column D), then look up the definition and antonyms from APIVerve for each unique term and write to the Definition and Antonyms columns
Full glossary-build pipeline
Trim and lowercase all terms in column A, deduplicate (mark extras in column D), look up definition and antonyms from APIVerve for each unique term, write definition to the Definition column and antonyms to the Antonyms column, and flag any term where no definition was returned with "Needs Manual Entry" in column E
Cleanup, deduplication, and enrichment run as one request — the pipeline doesn't need multiple passes.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your glossary workbook with terms in column A, then ask SheetXAI to fill in the definitions and antonyms from APIVerve. You might also want to scrape App Store metadata for competitor apps or browse the full APIVerve integration overview.