There are a couple of great resources online that I wouldn't be without... I remember asking my mother about the spelling of something when I was a kid (eons and eons ago) and scratching my head when she handed me out 80 pound dictionary and told me to look it up. I couldn't figure out how one could look up something if one didn't know the spelling in the first place. If you need a definition OR if you're not sure of the spelling of a word...you can take a try, and they'll give you suggestions, plus, of course, they'll give you the definition, so head to the
dictionary for that...
But...yes, I'm one of those folks that rambles before getting to the point...

in an effort to teach...

...so, yes, there is a point... Affiliated with that same site, there's a
thesaurus. Wonderful things, those are, whether in book form or online. So, if you were to put in the word "shovel," you would get all kinds of good things, including the following:
bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, delve into, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, elevate, enter, excavate, exhume, fork, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, hollow out, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth