What's Another Word For Synonym?

One thing I've discovered about working in non-profit is that basically everyone you work with has a great sense of humor. They're all pretty wacky and fun. Since I'm up at the front desk and have several offices off to the side, I am not only the literal water cooler location, I get to see and hear what's going on in the offices around me a lot of times too.


As the resident English major, I occasionally have coworkers ask me to do things like whip up text for a flier or check over their emails for grammar and punctuation before they send them off.

So the other day I was working at my front desk and one of my coworkers calls out from her office to my left:

Her: Hey! Sarah! How do you spell leery?

Me: Like, wary? Or hesitant?

Her: Oh, yeah, that's better. I'll use hesitant.

*pause*

Her: You're like my personal, uh, synonym box!

Me: ...Thesaurus?

Yeah, that may be the most perfect conversation I've ever had. (Well, second, but that's another story :)

Oh, and no need to look up synonyms for sexy, because you'll get this:

Write on!

Sarah Allen

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