"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!
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