You've probably heard that a thesaurus is your greatest tool as a writer. It can stop you from using the same words too often. It can enhance the impact of your text be refining your meaning. It can also help you change the way your different characters speak from each other.

You should, however, be careful with the synonyms you choose. If you choose the wrong one, you can completely change the meaning behind a line or paragraph. A good rule of thumb is to keep a dictionary handy along with your thesaurus to double-check any words you don't commonly use.

Below I've started to rewrite the first book in the Warrior Cats series, Into The Wild, replacing every word with synonyms that exist in the Apple Dictionary. This can easily show the ridiculousness of going overboard with your thesaurus, especially when you aren't being mindful of the synonyms you choose (It's also fun to do!).

Fighters

The Predictions Start

Into The Uknown

Introduction

Fifty per cent of a satellite’s shine was supported by even granite rocks, making them go round grey. The quietness existed smashed at most through the wavelet of aqua from the prompt dark watercourse together with the murmur of saplings inside the wood on the far side.

There had been a mixing within the silhouette, along with from each of every side agile black forms crawled furtively above the boulders. Unsheathed nails shone in the middle of the satellite illumination. Cautious organs of sight lit up similar to amber. With at that time, while on condition that functioning a completely quiet gesture, the animals jumped over at every one alternative, as well as immediately the stones had existed living accompanied by grappling, shrieking felines.

At the middle of the hysteria of hair in addition to talons, a huge pitch black tabby held a bracken-hued tom to the floor including pulled up his skull victoriously. “Oakticker!” The tabby tom snarled. “You be brave enough to chase within the bounds of our area of land? The Sunninggoolies have a place with ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies!”

“Following tonight, Tigerunguis, this has a tendency to live a moment ago as one more WaterwaySept blood sports earth!” The bracken-shaded tom snapped back.

A notice yowl moved nearer from the seashore, high-pitched also worried. “Glance not here! Additional WaterwaySept soldiers be alive forthcoming!”

Tigerunguis went round to discern smooth damp torsos gliding not at home of the H2O beneath the crags. The soaked WaterwaySept fighting men leaped quietly up the seaside too threw themselves into fight lacking still putting an end to Adam’s ale by vibrating it from their wool.

The pitch dark tabby stared angrily towards a lower position at Oakticker. “You may bathe the same as otters, yet you besides your servicemen carry out not be located within the confines of these woods!” He hauled backwards his lips furthermore made visible his fangs just as the pussycat strived under him.

The despairing shriek of a ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies she-pussy moved up over the din. A sinewy WaterwaySept tom had restrained the hazel combatant level in contact with her stomach. At that moment he pounced in the direction of her nape accompanied by a mouth up to this time dribbling from him going swimming to the other side of the stream.

Tigerungius perceived the call moreover allowed Oakticker to move. Accompanied by a powerful jump over , he bumped the foe fighter off from the she-puss. “Fast, Mousehair, sprint!” He commanded, prior to turning in contact with the WaterwaySept tomorrow who had menaced her. Mousehair clambered to her feet, grimacing from a laceration extending far down in her shoulder, and hurried from here.

At the back of her, Tigerunguis expectorated with fury even as the WaterwaySept tom cut open his snout, Gore visually impaired him fir a moment, yet he thrust ahead anyway and submerged his fangs into the back lower limb of his foe. The WaterwaySept kitty screeched together with striving to be unencumbered.

“Tigerunguis!” The yowl arrived from a soldier accompanied by a hindmost part as scarlet as fox wool. “This is futile! There exist excessively numerous WaterwaySept fighting men!”

“No indeed, Vermillionbackend. ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies have at tendency at no time to exist defeated!” Tigerunguis cried backwards, jumping to Vermillionbackend’s district. “This is our area of land!” Lifeblood had been welling on every side of his wide pitch black snout, and he vibrated his skull restlessly, scattering scarlet droplets onto the cliffs.

“ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies are bound to hold in great respect your courage, Tigerunguis, nevertheless we cannot pay for the mislaying of some further of our serviceman,” Vermillionbackend encouraged.”Skybluecelestialbody would not at any time suppose her combatants to brawl opposed to these not possible likelihoods. We have a habit of possessing the possibility to take revenge for this beat.” He encountered Tigerunguis’s glowing coal stare stably, at that point raised off along with jumping onto a rock at the border of the saplings.

“Withdraw, ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies! Retire!” he yowled. At one occasion his fighters struggled and tried hard from her from their rivals. Hawking with growling, they reversed in the direction of Vermillionbackend. For a ticker strike, the WaterwaySept kitty cats glanced bewildered. Had being this conflict secured so effortlessly? At that time Oakticker yowled an overjoyed shout. While in a short time they caught him, the WaterwaySept soldiers embossed their power of speech as well as connected their second in command howling their success.

Vermillionbackend gazed towards a lower position of his fighting men. Accompanied by a jerk of his appendage, he presented with the gestured the ThunderclapGroupOfFamilies kittens plunged downwards the distant border of the Sunninggoolies, at that point vanishing into the conifers.

Tigerunguis came behind rearmost. He paused at the boundary of the woods and took a quick look behind one at the vital fluid discoloured battleground. His countenance had existed stern, his eyeballs angry incisions. In this days he vaulted over following his gens into the still woodland.

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