Tonight Josh was working on his homework and on his spelling word list was a new column for "synonyms". Josh pronounces it more like "cinnamon" but gets the idea that it is a replacement for the word.
He got through the first seven words, including "both" in which he came up with "two". The next word was "four". He put it into a sentence, and nothing popped as an option. I told him about "quad" and he wasn't impressed. Then I told him about a thesaurus... how it was a book of synonyms. So we went online, typed in "four" and read through the word options. "Square" and "quadrangle" were the only ones I had heard of. Then Josh started to laugh uncontrollably... he saw the one he was going to write on his homework... "preantepenultimate". And that's how we learned about synonyms.
He got through the first seven words, including "both" in which he came up with "two". The next word was "four". He put it into a sentence, and nothing popped as an option. I told him about "quad" and he wasn't impressed. Then I told him about a thesaurus... how it was a book of synonyms. So we went online, typed in "four" and read through the word options. "Square" and "quadrangle" were the only ones I had heard of. Then Josh started to laugh uncontrollably... he saw the one he was going to write on his homework... "preantepenultimate". And that's how we learned about synonyms.
