If you read the “another word for annoyed” post you learned of my deep, abiding love for the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus. My own writing recently brought me to a situation where I needed to find another word for beautiful. One, because beautiful just wasn’t quite descriptive enough, and two, because beautiful is the first [...]
November 26, 2011
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Depending on who you ask, the average person has a vocabulary between 3,000 and 30,000 words. Most “authoritative” books that are supposed to improve your vocabulary suggest between 3,000 and 10,000. The more education you have, the higher your vocabulary typically gets. This is not necessarily because more formal education makes you smarter, but because [...]
May 25, 2009
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