auria “Hussein” cortes

Earlier this week I had a conversation with a fellow writer. I read his query letter and one of the faults I found was the repetition of words. I then introduced him to a thesaurus. :-) His book is a military crime. Mine is about a young girl in Puerto Rico. Below are keywords that are relevant to both our books, along with synonyms found on Thesaurus.com.  

• Deceit: cunning, deceitfulness, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, guile, shiftiness

• Elude: burke, bypass, circumvent, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, evade, get around, shun, elude

• Thief: bandit, burglar, highwayman, housebreaker, larcener, pilferer, purloiner, robber, stealer

• Crime: deviltry, diablerie, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing

• Poor: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken

• Food: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision, sustenance, victual

• Alone: companionless, lone, lonely, lonesome, single, solitary, unaccompanied

• Psychic: elixir, medicament, medication, medicine, nostrum, remedy

• Travel: fare, journey, pass, proceed, push on, remove, wend

• Field: arena, bailiwick, circle, department, domain, orbit, province, realm, scene, subject, terrain, territory, world

• Whack: bang, clout, crack, hit, lick, pound, slug, sock, swat, thwack, welt, wham, whop

• Play: disport, diversion, fun, recreation, sport

• Understanding: empathetic, empathic, feeling, sympathetic

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