LESSON 2. TASK 4: THESAURUS

The word I looked up in Thesaurus was INCOME. The information provided by Thesaurus is a short definition of the word and a list of synonyms. The number of synonyms can be sorted by order of relevance, by the complexity of the term, by the length of the word. It also allows to select those terms that are most common. One could also check thether some of these words are used in an informal way.
In order to select the right word to use instead of income, I would sort by relevance and select those common terms. In this case, the most appropriate synonym and the one most used instead of income is earnings.
Below you can find the results of using Thesaurus to look for synonyms of Income: