Not everyone believes in synonyms. Some people are even enraged at the way they cloud the precise meanings of things.
The residents who came to celebrate Thesaurus day do not fall into either of those categories. I began with a simple word like happy and asked for synonyms. When no new ideas came popping I took the last word in the list and began a new one. After we had several lists we looked back to see which words came up often and which were unique. We talked about the man who must have spent a great deal of time determining which words were related enough to count as synonyms.
It was an interesting activity and gave me a few ideas for opposite day.
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