So when I hear a word I don't know now a days I'm on the computer hitting up the online dictionaries looking up said words. So I heard the word adulation, I can't remember how it was used but I'm thinking the sentence ended with excessive adulation!
Adulation: Flattery
Sentence: I find it difficult to accept compliments because I not familiar to such kindness and adulation.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Word of the day: Dream
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Main Entry: dream
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conjure up scenario
Synonyms: be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up*, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker*, hatch*, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition by Barbara Ann KipferCopyright © 2008 by the Philip Lief Group. CITE THIS SOURCEPRINT
I was trying to think of another word for 'make up' and when I see the synonyms that go with dream I think to myself...it's perfect. The 'Search for pot of Gold' synonym reminds of a poem (I threw it away dammit!) I wrote about chasing rainbows. To 'be up in the clouds'...'crave'...'long'..'lust'. Like I said, good word!
Main Entry: dream
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conjure up scenario
Synonyms: be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up*, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker*, hatch*, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition by Barbara Ann KipferCopyright © 2008 by the Philip Lief Group. CITE THIS SOURCEPRINT
I was trying to think of another word for 'make up' and when I see the synonyms that go with dream I think to myself...it's perfect. The 'Search for pot of Gold' synonym reminds of a poem (I threw it away dammit!) I wrote about chasing rainbows. To 'be up in the clouds'...'crave'...'long'..'lust'. Like I said, good word!
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