Just a silly posting on my blog, but not a bad practice for all of us:
Often, I will look up the synonyms for words. I do this when I'm composing content on the Ning Directory, because of our International membership and audience. I like to think of the possibilities on some words, and how they might translate - - hopefully, well. I was looking up synonyms for the word "bloating", since I had added it to THE LIST, while explaining why we ask that Ning Network Creators limit their listings to 2 per Ning Network.

I gotta say, this is my all time favorite list of synonyms.

bloated

Synonyms:

accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, arrogant, augmented, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bandy-legged, bandy, beefed-up, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, blemished, bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy, bowlegged, brawny, broadened, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, club-footed, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, deepened, defaced, deformed, dilated, disfigured, distended, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, dwarfed, edematous, elated, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, expanded, extended, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatfooted, flatulent, fleshy, flushed, flushed with pride, formal, full, fully, gassy, glutted, gorged, grandiloquent, gross, grotesque, heavyset, hefty, heightened, hiked, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, important, imposing, in spate, incrassate, increased, inflated, intensified, jam-packed, jammed, jazzed up, knock-kneed, lusty, magisterial, magnified, malformed, marred, meaty, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, moutonnee, multiplied, mutilated, obese, out of shape, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overgrown, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, paunchy, pigeon-toed, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, pompous, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pouching, proliferated, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug-nosed, pursy, rachitic, raised, ready to burst, reinforced, rickety, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated, saturated, self-important, simous, snub-nosed, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stiffened, stilted, stocky, stout, strapping, strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy, stumpy, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swaybacked, swelled, swelling, swollen, talipedic, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened, top-heavy, truncated, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed, widened, windy