I'd love to say the words I want are on the tip of my tongue, but they aren't. I've been writing about a steamy jungle, and I feel I've run out of vocabulary to describe the place and its atmosphere. How many ways are there to say 'tangled', 'humid', or 'green'? I feel I've used every one of them at least half a dozen times, which is five times too many.

Resorting to Roget's Thesaurus hasn't helped. I searched under the headings 'jungle', 'foliage', 'tangle', 'greenery' and more, but only one...


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