Today’s English
May 8th, 2017
If you wanna avoid repeating same words several times in your speech and writing, you gotta use a thesaurus that will also help you employ apt words relevant to the context. You know, the word thesaurus comes from a Greek word “thesauros” meaning “treasure”. It’s really a treasury of words – a reference book listing words with similar meaning. The most widely used thesaurus in the world is Roget's Thesaurus. Roget is a British doctor who resigned his profession for publishing the world’s first thesaurus in 1852 with 15000 words. You can also go for oxford thesaurus, Webster’s thesaurus or Collins thesaurus if you feel that thesaurus.com has many irrelevant words. The following may give you an idea of using thesaurus:
1. Creative – innovative, inventive, experimental, original, expressive, productive, talented, resourceful, visionary, gifted, ingenious, quick-witted, inspired.
Our students are so creative. They have the highly inventive mind. This is because of the experimental teaching methods by our teachers. Their projects are original and stand testimonies of the expressive power of their profound analytical study. (And so on)
2. Angry – furious, hit the ceiling, boil with anger, furious, provoked, become enraged, hot-tempered, outraged, wrathful, in a frenzy, infuriated, wild, hot under the collar, up in arms, steamed up, ratty, eggy, hot, stormy, fiery, lose one’s temper, go bananas, hit the roof and so on.
If you want to say that somebody is angry with you, how many alternatives are supplied by thesaurus!
Why do you boil with anger? / he is up in arms now./ when you are steamed up, you don’t think rationally./ she lost her temper at his silly behavior.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
- Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
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