"When you catch an adjective, kill it." -- Mark Twain. Woah! That sounds drastic, yet irresistible...but maybe adjecticide isn't the answer, maybe it's improving our collective choice of words. Let's ban very, really, cute, fun, pretty, interesting, and even cool in favor of some of these gems: capacious, nugatory, tensile, panoptic, bumptious. Bumptious!