A “Pure” Letter to My Grandchildren

Dear Grandchildren: O.K. children, turn off your radio or television set for a few minutes. I want you to put on your thinking caps those with the built-in ear plugs to shut out outside sounds which might distract you. I want you to join me in thinking of the words pure, purity and purify. Ready? The word pure has very many synonyms (shadow words) that I find- some twenty nouns, fifty adjectives and ten adverbs. That turns out to be quite a rich word, don’t you think so? Some of them are,...