A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Roy Peter Clark
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  1. Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

  2. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.

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