Vocab resources with a receptive (or input) focus ask the question "what does ... mean?" rather than "how do you say ...?".
The focus is on students' receptive skills (listening, reading) rather than on productive skills (speaking, writing), so they are less challenging for students. We want to know what they can understand rather than what they can produce themselves.
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