So if I understand correctly you can learn new words and the souls will activate these words. I just killed a dragon and when it died it looked like I absorbed the soul but it didn't unlock any of the words I have.
I noticed some dragons actually have a name so do certain dragons unlock certain words?
Best Answer
Dragon souls can be saved, so don't worry that the effort in killing the dragon is lost.
Please note that you need to discover additional shouts if you have learned/activated all your current words, this way you can use your saved dragon souls on the new words of the new shouts.
In order to learn new shouts, you need to find all these word walls; you can get a quest to the next:
To actually learn a new shout, once you have discovered the word wall and have a dragon soul to use, you need to manually activate it in the shouts menu. Select the shout and press the Activate button. It should be shown on your screen, but I believe the buttons are:
R on PC
X on Xbox
□ on PS3