On a Whim

I have nothing else to do so far today, so I'm going to look up words associated with things I can see on a thesaurus webpage and see if they have weird synonyms. Sound like a blast? It's not. But it's better than nothing. Here we go!

catalog: synonym - guiding light

Isn't that a soap opera? Is it a catalog full of TV shows? I'm confused.

kosher: synonym - Christian

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letter: synonym - poison-pen

A letter is something that gets sent to your house, usually on paper. It is not, contrary to popular belief, an awesome-sounding spy weapon.

marker: synonym - scepter

I spent so much time helping kings get their markers back from the Bowser kids in Super Mario Brothers 3, it's not even funny.

office: synonym - salt mines

Other undesirable workplaces, such as a sewage plant or a trash dump, do not appear on the list. I think someone at Roget's was a little bitter about a previous occupation.

scarf: synonym - raven

One's a piece of clothing. One is a bird. Am I missing something?

staple: synonym - gravamen

I had to look this one up. It means "the part of a charge or an accusation that weighs most substantially against the accused." Now, I know, this is probably a synonym for a different definition of staple, but still. I don't have any idea how a word used to describe foods you should eat every day could possibly be associated with a court room.