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Simon Parkin
Better Known
How to Use the Dictionary to Find the Right Word
In your own work, do you use the dictionary to find the right word? Is it something that's useful in that sense? Yeah, I certainly have it's the difference between using it because I want to look up what a word means. It's more to go right, are there some subtleties or characteristics of this word that I could then use to expand my sentence and pull it away from cliche. And again, yeah, detecting when a particular word is becoming a cliche in your own,. you know, slim volume of words that you draw upon for your writing.
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