Question

1. A thesaurus is best used to _____________.

Answer 1

1. The correct answer is B. help find a word that means the same or a similar definition as another word. Thesaurus is a kind of dictionary that contains synonyms (words with the same or similar meaning) or antonyms (words with opposite meaning). It doesn't contain definitions, but only related words. To find definitions, you would have to look in a dictionary.

2. Using synonyms can help make your writing more interesting. A text can often become oversaturated with the same word repeated many times, at the expense of nice flow and style. So, sometimes it is better to come up with adequate synonyms and use them. By looking for synonyms, we can find a more vivid and imaginative word than the one we had in mind.

3. A table can help us organize thoughts and ideas. When put into a table, information and thoughts become easily accessible and comprehensible. It helps us organize them, deriving the essence and the most important parts out of a text. A table is, basically, a way to visualize thoughts, which also makes them easier to memorize.

4. The "view side by side" feature would be useful in editing or comparing two different documents, so we don't have to minimize and maximize them all the time. We can create tables, search for words, or use the "search and replace" function perfectly well without using the "view side by side" feature. But when it comes to editing and comparing, it is extremely helpful to see both documents at the same time and compare them directly.