: Re: Tips for expanding my vocabulary? Looking back through my texts, I noticed that I often use a lot of the same words and resort to using quite a basic vocabulary. I was wondering if there

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In addition to the reading or using a dictionary or thesaurus, you can also look at various Words of the Day. Depending on what you are reading, these may expose you words you may otherwise not encounter. A quick Google Search for 'word of the day' showed sites like Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, WordThink, NY Times, The Quotations Page, and Wordsmith.org having this feature.

Edit: I could only enter a single link when I first posted as I had just recently joined. Here are some other useful sites.

Visuwords - This online graphical dictionary is a flash app that graphically displays related words. You can enter the starting word or have it select a random word.
Merriam-Webster - This part of the M-W site allows searching for a word in a picture or diagram. This would allow you to see other related parts of an object. For example, if searching for 'tread,' one link may also identify the bead of a tire. Another link may also identify the riser of a step.
write rhymes - This will let you find words that rhyme with the selected word.
OneLook Reverse Dictionary - With this site, you describe a concept and it provides a list of related words and phrases. For example, when searching on 'characteristic of a forest,' the first word in the returned list is sylvan.

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