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Plethora

Here’s a weird one where I hate the word, but I actually like it in its archaic form. In case you’ve been living in a cage in your uncle Harry’s basement, subsisting off sewer rats that venture too close to your putrid, pus-spewing, gangrenous foot, which you fractured trying to escape but were thwarted by [...]

Posted 29 October 2010 † Christopher § Getting Attention § Nouns § Pretentious § Redundant § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (2) °

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. I hated “morose” from the womb. I could hear my mother using it, mostly while [...]

Posted 29 September 2009 † Christopher § Adjectives § Sounds too Much Like Meaning ‡ Comments (0) °

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. [...]

Posted 28 March 2009 † Christopher § Adjectives § Doesn't Match Meaning ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: