I Just Might Throw My Dictionary Away

Over the past week I’ve been up to my eyeballs in writing reports and anyone who is used to tossing out tens of thousands of words in a short time span knows that after awhile, a traditional thesaurus or online synonym resource can feel awfully limited. Enter visuwords.com, a refreshingly useful online resource that functions as a sort of graphical dictionary/thesaurus. What I found particularly useful is how it uses diagrams to illustrate word relationships that actually helped me break out of the tunnel vision writing style instigated by marathon writing sessions…

If that weren’t enough, it’s simply fun to use; so much so that I have to consciously check that I’m not getting carried away with it and lose track of time. If you’re a visual oriented learner, visuwords is for you so to all the professionals out there who get tired of using the same old bag of terminology but relish the idea of using MS Word’s synonym feature about as much as getting a physical from Dr. Mengele, add visuwords.com to your favorites.

P.S. Don’t forget to double-click suggested words – it’s fun watching the screen explode in an array of suggestions!