Consider the thesaurus
The thesaurus sucks. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!).
Consider the thesaurus
The better your vocabulary, the more things you can name, the richer your base of raw materials to hang new ideas and experiences on.
Neil Kakkar • Vocabulary as a Meta Mental Model
This is the best vocabulary test I found (of the three I tried):
https://preply.com/en/learn/english/test-your-vocab
What to expect: first, they give you a grid of 50 words, ranging from really easy to really hard. I knew probably 90% of these. But then based on what you select, it gives you a second group of words that’s at the edge of your zone, wh
... See moreDictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi
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They thought it would be particularly useful for writing in a certain voice or character, or for coming up with thematically exciting words. They wondered what kind of thesaurus would come from a corpus of nautical novels (like Moby Dick)
