Found - Inspiration
Jaidra
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I discovered something wonderful when I opened my thesaurus tonight. I found inspiration. Hundreds of fasinating word combinations jumped out at me from the page headers in the index. Words like “Legendary Letters”, “Makesure Manager” and “Mottled Muddle”.
I just wanted to share a few of the headings that caught my eye. since I had fun reading through them and dreaming up all sorts of interesting ideas. Hope you catch something that inspires you too.
legendary - letters
letter writer - lie in wait
lie low - likely story
likely to - lip
loner - lose ground
macadam – maiming
make sure – manager
managerial - maraud
measurement – mellow
misrepresented – mock
monastic – moralistic
mottled - muddle
nail down - naughty
nausea - negligence
negligent – news media
no choice - nonfulfillment
nonfunctional – notable
on time – opposed to change
opposer – organisation
organizational - outbrave
overeager – oversight
oversimplification pack
package - palpitant
paralytic - partaking
part and parcel – passion
passionate – patron
pebbled – percentage
perceptible – person
personable - phlegmatic
phobia - picnic
pinched - pity
pivot – platitude
plethora - point
point-blank - poop
LOL!!! no joke
pooped – postgraduate
posthaste – praise
praise the Lord! - premium
premonition - prevalent
prevaricate – privy council
prize – program
programming language - propitiate
propitious – provision
purify – put into words
queasy – race against time
read someone like a book – reception
red – reform
reigning – remedial
remedy – replace
replacement – reserve
revealing - riddle
ride – riot
rocket engine – root out
run into – sacrifice
sacrificial – sanctioned
sanctity – savor
savory – schedule
scheduled - scrape
scrape by – scum
scum of the earth - secretary
Seceratary of the Treaury - seizure
seldom – semblance
semen – sequester
set conditions – severe
severity – shaken
sheathe – shock
shock absorber – shotgun
shotgun wedding – shush
shut – signal
signal flag – sing song
sing the blues – skew
sodomy - somewhere
somewhere else – South America
stag – standing room only
stand in the way – status
stereoscopic – stir up
stretch the truth – stub
sublime – sudden death
surrepititious – sweep
sweeper – sympathetic
tangent – tear
tear apart – tendancy
tender – that’s the ticket
tilt – toast
touch and go –train
trained - trechery
type A – uncalled for
ungrateful - unmarked
vary - verve
while away - widget
I just wanted to share a few of the headings that caught my eye. since I had fun reading through them and dreaming up all sorts of interesting ideas. Hope you catch something that inspires you too.
legendary - letters
letter writer - lie in wait
lie low - likely story
likely to - lip
loner - lose ground
macadam – maiming
make sure – manager
managerial - maraud
measurement – mellow
misrepresented – mock
monastic – moralistic
mottled - muddle
nail down - naughty
nausea - negligence
negligent – news media
no choice - nonfulfillment
nonfunctional – notable
on time – opposed to change
opposer – organisation
organizational - outbrave
overeager – oversight
oversimplification pack
package - palpitant
paralytic - partaking
part and parcel – passion
passionate – patron
pebbled – percentage
perceptible – person
personable - phlegmatic
phobia - picnic
pinched - pity
pivot – platitude
plethora - point
point-blank - poop
LOL!!! no jokepooped – postgraduate
posthaste – praise
praise the Lord! - premium
premonition - prevalent
prevaricate – privy council
prize – program
programming language - propitiate
propitious – provision
purify – put into words
queasy – race against time
read someone like a book – reception
red – reform
reigning – remedial
remedy – replace
replacement – reserve
revealing - riddle
ride – riot
rocket engine – root out
run into – sacrifice
sacrificial – sanctioned
sanctity – savor
savory – schedule
scheduled - scrape
scrape by – scum
scum of the earth - secretary
Seceratary of the Treaury - seizure
seldom – semblance
semen – sequester
set conditions – severe
severity – shaken
sheathe – shock
shock absorber – shotgun
shotgun wedding – shush
shut – signal
signal flag – sing song
sing the blues – skew
sodomy - somewhere
somewhere else – South America
stag – standing room only
stand in the way – status
stereoscopic – stir up
stretch the truth – stub
sublime – sudden death
surrepititious – sweep
sweeper – sympathetic
tangent – tear
tear apart – tendancy
tender – that’s the ticket
tilt – toast
touch and go –train
trained - trechery
type A – uncalled for
ungrateful - unmarked
vary - verve
while away - widget
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I just wanted to mention that the list I posted above was taken from the page headings in the index of Roget’s International Thesaurus, 5th Edition.