<span>Hildegard of Bingen</span> instilled her music with emotional expression by feeling the energy of her music and associating it with the text creating serenely beautiful music<span>.
</span>She was a saint of the church and was also a poet and songwriter. She was significant because she set many of her texts to music and had brilliant imagery and creative language.
Synonyms help us connect unknown words with known words. For example, one may not know the meaning of the word "nefarious" when used in this context: "The offense was more nefarious than previously thought." If we replace "nefarious" with "evil" or "wretched" the meaning is more comprehensible to those who don't know the meaning of "nefarious": The offense was more evil (wretched) than previously thought."
I hope this helps, I used nefarious as a somewhat uncommon term to better illustrate my point, and to explain why we use synonyms to learn new words. Simply put, synonyms bridge us to the unknown using the known as solid ground build from.
<span>1) Henri Matisse; (2) autobiographical art</span>
