The well-spoken thesaurus
by Tom Heehler · first published 2011
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…Thesaurus of Words For Intellectuals - David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua, and Justin Cord Hayes 21. The Thinker's Thesaurus - Peter E. Meltzer 22. Fiske Word Power - Fiske, Mallison, Mandell 23. The Well Spoken Thesaurus - Tom Heehler 24. They Have A Word For It - Howard Rheingold and remember, as Aldous Huxley said "The proper study of mankind is books". And on that note, may I recommend keeping a couple of books…
on “Ask HN: How to become a better at writing?” ↗…contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech. That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions, ChatGPT and Gemini now surface new words…
on “Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI” ↗