Can’t find the right word?
There may be times in your writing when you just can’t find the right word. Yes, you could right click and use the synonym/thesaurus option in Word, but there is a more exciting option out there.
Visuwords is a great online tool which helps you to not only understand the meaning of a word, but to see the relationships between words. As mentioned by Judy O’Connell (Hey Jude), it is a great visual tool which will have immense appeal to many – and for many different reasons.
Being easy to use and fun to play with, it should prove wonderful for anyone facing a writer’s block. Students might also like to use it to collect ideas for a brainstorm at the beginning of an activity e.g. defining the term ‘journey’ for HSC English Area of Study.
And developing writers could use it to broaden their vocabulary – much quicker than compiling a long list of words to use instead of ‘walk’! Even hobby or sports fans could use it to review the areas to cover when discussing their favourite. Try typing in ‘cricket’!
Many thanks for the alert, Judy!
Try it out and let others know how you have used it.
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