A series of posts for lovers of words. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at different aspects of the world of words to stimulate curiosity and enhance creativity. This week’s words: Rabid, Paradox, Quite, Needless to say, Tarab, Rabid - Roget’s thesaurus lists the following headers for this adjective: furious, frenzied, …
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Looking for the Best Word? Tip #65
A series of posts for lovers of words. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at different aspects of the world of words to stimulate curiosity and enhance creativity. This week’s words: Pace, Metaphor, Merge together, Know the ropes, Opia. Pace - Roget’s thesaurus lists the following headers: synchronise (vb), long measure …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #64
A series of posts for word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Go, Isocolon, Most unique, Caught with his/her pants down, Contronym: Go: belongs to an odd …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #63
A series of posts for word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Kaput, Erotesis, Absolutely necessary, Cross that bridge when you come to it, Anecdoche. …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #62
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Industrious/Indolent, Epizeuxis, In close proximity, Keeping up with the Joneses, Saudade. Industrious/Indolent: …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #61
A day late: sorry, my Mac was undergoing repairs. Now fixed! A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Fight …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #60
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Abstract, Epanalepsis, Kind of, Afraid of his own shadow, Pihentagyú. Abstract: (this …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #59
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Menace/Reassure; The colour blue/gold/red, etc., Flog a dead horse, Desenrascanço. Menace - …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #58
A series of posts for word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts examine different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. You need to know this post was scheduled prior to my annual break from all things digital, so …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #57
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. Please be aware this post was scheduled prior to my annual break from all things …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #56
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Ambitious/Apathetic; Consonance; Advance planning; Down to earth. Ambitious - Roget lists these …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #55
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the world of words in the hope of stimulating your curiosity and enhancing your creativity. This week’s words: Help, Incredibly, A word to the wise, Shinrin-yoku, Contronym: Help Help: belongs …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #54
A series of posts for all word lovers, offering help for writers and language learners. This week’s words: Important; Congeries; Hopeful optimism; Heard it through the grapevine. Important - Roget lists these headers: crucial, fundamental, necessary, and important. Under the sub-heading ‘important’ are a further 84 alternatives, including weighty, big, earth-shaking, critical, radical, …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #53
Help for writers and language learners. This series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Gabble, Left, Chiasmus, Genuinely, and, Gilding the lily. Gabble - Roget lists these headers: ululate, empty talk, speak, stammer, and be loquacious. Under the sub-heading ‘loquacious’ are a further 68 alternatives, including talkative, …
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #52
Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Fabricate, Fairly, Desbundar, Facts of life. Fabricate - Roget lists these headers: compose, produce, imagine, fake. Under the sub-heading ‘fake’ are a further 24 alternatives, including forge, plagiarize, trump up, rig, spin, …

