Use powerful superlatives that enhance your blogs, tweets, press releases, and manuscripts. Thus, we sought several resources to help eliminate this and developed a list of words we’re committed to using from now on.
We’re among friends, so we’ll admit that it was not only embarrassing, but downright lazy on our part to rely so heavily on “great” and other past-its-prime word choices. The overuse of words like terrific, amazing, and awesome are boring and pedestrian. To be changed or received in exchange for to pass in exchange as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.Great, excellent, amazing, awesome (our personal favorite) these are just a few stale superlatives stymying your writing.Īs the Wise, Ink team were working on our own book project, we were shocked to find the obscene number of “really greats” and “very goods” that peppered our precious book content. Syn: To barter change commute interchange bargain truck swap traffic. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind to barter to swap as, to exchange horses with a neighbor to exchange houses or hats. To shift his being Is to exchange one misery with another. To part with for a substitute to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with) as, to exchange a palace for cell. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent - usually followed by for before the thing received. exchange prisoners, employees, etc.-Ĭlick here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll give to, and receive from, one another "Would you change places with me?" "We have been exchanging letters for a year" exchange a penalty for a less severe one exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?" "He changed his name" "convert centimeters into inches" "convert holdings into shares" change over, change around, or switch over chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) "they had a bitter exchange" This post looks at a related set: words for things that are new or modern. a workplace for buying and selling open only to members by Liz Walter Last month I wrote about ways of talking about people or animals that are young.
a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication (tennis or squash) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes "after a short rally Connors won the point" the act of changing one thing for another thing "Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience" "there was an exchange of prisoners" the act of giving something in return for something received "deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable" reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money especially the currencies of different countries "he earns his living from the interchange of currency" the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help" (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop "black lost the exchange" (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value "the endgame began after the exchange of queens"
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