The following list of sense-based words is by no means complete. It will, however, give you a good idea of the range of vocabulary for each of the major sensory systems. How many words from each category do you find familiar and comfortable? Which words do you use most often? How many additional words do you know for each category? How many of the words have meanings that apply to more than one category?
| Visual | Auditory | Kinesthetic |
| clarify | accent | concrete |
| cloud | alarm | consider |
| depict | amplify | contact |
| distinguish | ask | crash |
| envision | attune | feel |
| expose | clear | finger |
| flash | click | flat |
| focused | compose | grab |
| foggy | deaf | grasp |
| glimpse | dissonance | grope |
| graphic | growl | handle |
| hazy | harmonize | impact |
| illustrate | hear | irritate |
| imagine | listen | move |
| look | muffle | rub |
| outlook | note | scrape |
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| shortsighted | silence | tap |
| show | sound | throw |
| sparkling | static | tickle |
| spectacle | tune | touch |
| twinkle | utter | unbudging |
| view | voice | unfeeling |