Here’s a playful little trick you can use to get your creative juices going and spruce up your prose if you thinks it lacks sparkle and verve. Simply turn to your trusty thesaurus or synonym finder, dog-earred or digital, and pick a word at random. Then jot down all the words that catch your eye and appeal to your senses. This morning, I’ve picked the word, “mist” and here’s what my handy helper came up with to describe this mixture of air and water:

N.  bubble, foam, froth, head

spume, fume, lathe, suds,

spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift.

cloud, vapour, fog, haze, steam, scud,

rack, nimbus, cumulus, cirrus,

woolpack, mackerel sky, mare’s tail, dirty sky,

effervescence, fermentation, bubbling,

nebulosity, cloudiness, mantle, sparkle,

V.  bubble, boil, foam, froth, spume,

guggle, gurgle, ferment, fizzle, effervesce,

aerate, cloud, overcast, befog

Adj. bubbling, frothy, nappy,

effervescent, sparkling, fizzy, cloudy,

vaporous, nebulous, overcast,

nubiferous, nehological, foggy, brumous

Wow, what riches there are here to choose from! Wonder what “guggle,” “nubiferous” and “brumous” have to offer my readers. What a world of choices are at my fingertips — and yours. Remembering this and taking a quick ramble into the world of synonyms can help shake loose our mental cobwebs and give us fresh ways to say what we want to say as we all write on.

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