Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Thing 11: Synonyms

Creative: innovational, groundbreaking, resourceful, fresh, cool, originative, formative, inferential, structural, novel.
My favorites:
Innovational=being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before


Originative=having the ability or power to create



Skeptical: leery, wary, cynical, unbelieving, doubting, questioning, incredulous, disbelieving
My favorites:
Incredulous=not disposed or willing to believe


Leery=openly distrustful and unwilling to confide


When I am typing or writing a paper I will use my computer’s thesaurus a lot. If I am having a hard time coming up with a word or even if I have a word but I want a different one similar to it, I use my thesaurus. I have never had problems, such as using a word that doesn’t actually work in the context of a sentence. Generally before I use a word I look at its definition to make sure it’s what I think. I don’t use words that I don’t know their meaning.

I am definitely going to add this website to my “favorites” because I can see myself becoming a “word nerd”. Here are a few words that I decided to search for and their synonyms:


talk: discussion, lecture, speak, spill, blether, prattle


happy: fortuitous, pleased, glad, felicitous, expansive, cheerful


Some of the connections seem to be right on, others seem to be not quite what I was looking for. Overall I highly recommend using this kind of a sight next time I am writing/typing a paper.


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