While writing, a very common phenomenon is that you know the exact definition of the word you are looking for, but cannot get the exact word out of your mouth. You babble nonsense words to yourself that start with the letter you think the perfect word starts with in the hopes that you will stumble on the correct sound to trigger your memory of the perfect word.
You know that there is only one perfect word that could possibly make your paper awesome, so you sit there talking to yourself trying to find it. When your brain is insufficient, and you feel like you are banging your head on the wall, you ask your roommate, “what is the word that means _____and sounds like ____... Help me." The next step is going to the thesaurus and trying to look up the words that are close, but that rarely works either.
The really frustrating thing is that after you choose the closest word, and after you have printed out the paper, while you are standing in front of the printer or putting the staple in the top left hand corner, you remember the word and smack yourself in the head and forget about it because in the end, the other word got the job done just the same.
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