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By Request, A List of Words I Like

Posted by: dkoupf on: September 11, 2010

Badonkadonk Pervasive Bloviate Transmogrification Phantasmagorical Evocative Provocative Bombast(ic) Chortle Gloat Hullabaloo Campy Zinger Topple Oust Warp(ed) Gem Canonicity Sabotage Conflate Insensate Revelatory Cupidity Boodle Pomp Gewgaw Sidereal Waylay Seep(age) Subsume Supplant Undermine Copiosity Cozy Snug Synchronicity Blockhead Slumber Anomaly Emblematize Heckle Lollygag Juxtaposition Liquidate Liquify Festooned Flabby Zest Kaleidoscope Quagmire Parklet Quench Bundle Monongahela Sewage [...]

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A List: Words I Don’t Like

Posted by: dkoupf on: August 30, 2010

Plethora Myriad Pantyhose Pedagogy Visage Discomfit Foodstuff(s) Leasee Indeed Quite Goodly Folks Monies Fruitful Machinic Constitutive Dish Gift Pocketbook Purse Ointment Fart Rubric Despite my animosity towards them, I still use a lot of these words. Pedagogy, obviously. Quite. Once in a while, indeed. (I think that too often it’s used just as filler where [...]

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Words on My Mind

Posted by: dkoupf on: August 4, 2010

Wordle of a draft of my project proposal

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A List: Words I Use Too Much in My Papers

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 23, 2010

Entail Thus Mere(ly) Nonetheless Might, may Not ____, but ____ Though Whenever I’ve been working on a piece of writing for a while, I feel like I’m running out of words and can’t think of any besides those I’ve already used again and again. What should I do, read the dictionary? Also, this still really [...]

Word Game

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 15, 2010

My trips between Pittsburgh and New Jersey last 6 1/2 to 7 hours. I’m always alone, except for when I bring my cat. She cries. I get really bored, staring at Route 80 for like 5 of those hours. I pass trucks. I listen to Radiohead and Girl Talk, on repeat. After every trip, I [...]

That Word

Posted by: dkoupf on: July 5, 2010

I distinctly remember writing a short paper during a freshman-year English class in college and failing to find the one word I really needed to describe the phenomenon I was trying to explain. It’s like it was always on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn’t articulate it. I thought in reading many [...]


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