About the theme

Temperature Words is the descriptive vocabulary — warm, cool, freezing, boiling, balmy, scorching, sweltering, blistering, frosty, glacial, tropical, polar. A theme that runs the thermometer top to bottom, with the long descriptive compounds (sweltering, scorching, blistering, oppressive) anchoring and the short ones (warm, cool, mild) hiding. Heavy on the soft consonants of weather-talk.