Awesome is not such an awesome word that you people need to say it all the time. Seriously, “awesome” has been blown completely out of proportion. It used to be that anything that was AWESOME was actually worthy of awe. AWE! Awe is a big thing. A bowl of Captain Crunch cannot be awesome. Your [...]
Words I Hate
Adjectives —
Category Archives: Adjectives
Morose
I think I’ve hated morose longer than any word I can remember hating.
It’s likely I first got acquainted with it while studying for the SATs in high school, but I’m sure I hated it even before I heard it. But it took me until just today to realize why I hate it.
Normally I like words [...]
Remiss
Remiss is a needy needy word, at least in modern spoken English. I’m sure at some point years ago people actually used “remiss” on its own, actually using it to describe a state of carelessness or negligence. In fact, this definition lives on in its very useful offspring, remission.
But today, people do not say “remiss” [...]
Sanguine
This word does not deserve to exist. In the US, everyone learns it when studying for the SATs. It has no other usefulness in our language than tripping up vacuous high school juniors. And that’s a pretty shitty life for any word.
The problem with this word is that it sounds nothing like its meaning. Here’s [...]
Necessary
I am quite serious when I say no other word in the English language gives me so much trouble for spelling. I hope I am not the only idiot who cannot fucking spell this word. And it’s not like this is “wankel-rotary engine” (which I confess I probably use MORE), this is NECESSARY. The word [...]