Word: thesauruses
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...fertile fields from which learning grows. By the way, I didn’t find that quote out there anywhere—in that form, anyway. But a quick search for “learning from your mistakes” indicates that a few minutes with a simple thesaurus yields a phrase pretty similar to mine...
...prevailing wisdom among undergraduates, readers are more likely to think that clear, concise writers are more intelligent. The study was published last year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. According to Oppenheimer’s paper, almost two thirds of the Princeton students polled admitted to using a thesaurus when writing an essay “to give the impression that the content is more valid or intelligent.” Harvard students, too, confess an attachment to their thesauri—in moderation. “If you use a thesaurus, it’s obviously going to make...
...know why they?re all crying, right? A farewell, losing, stress and, well, the whole point of daytime chat shows and Starting Over is to exhaust a thesaurus of synonyms for "closure." But there are flavors of sadness and specific qualities of joy, let alone a whole basketful of motivations for tears...
...comprehensible without a dictionary or thesaurus, you are disappointing me. Avoid words less than four syllables in length. Frequent use of words and phrases like “reify,” “false dichotomy,” “discursive construction” will leave little doubt of your superiority in the minds of the less gifted...
...soothing ripple effect and look good enough to lick. There's a widget that tracks your chosen stock prices, a widget that translates any word into one of a dozen languages, widgets that converts currency, weights and measures, and a widget that searches the entire Oxford American dictionary and Thesaurus (which also ships with Tiger). Widgets do all the workaday stuff of the web-local weather, flight times, Yellow Pages-without you having to boot up a browser or remember a web address. Dashboard starts with 14 widgets; the idea is that amateur programmers will create hundreds more once Tiger...