Words you don't need to use : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Also appears in: 12/31/07, May 24, My words of the day, Marketing Words

Also appears in: fashion terms, Novopharm, Power Verbs, 104 POWER VERBS, First Words, Social & Semantic Web, create, direction, process, marketing, Wedding

promise

Also appears in: Twilight Words, augur, auspex, anticipate, Obama's Inauguration Speech (VocabGrabber), The Highwayman, ari99, Hope, Feelings

gift

Also appears in: nice spider diagrams, MicroEdge, GIFTS-Monterey, Interesting Words, spider diagrams, short words

message

Also appears in: Words from Latin, Pledging allegiance through engagement, 7.20

impact

Also appears in: creativity, impact, ideate, AWL Headwords

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???? Gift is a dollar word, and Endowment is a ten cent word, or for that matter any of the other alternatives???

I hate when gift is used as a verb! Create is a good word, much better than make. I can make a doll house from a pattern but to create one means that it is all my own design and has never been done quite this way before.

I would add "impact" when used as a verb. And "impactful" which I just loathe in all circumstances.

I don't think any of these words are "dollar" words except maybe utilize, which often can (and should) be replaced with use - a very effective "ten cent" word. I agree that some of these words may be misused or overused, but that doesn't make them words I don't need to utilize...er, use.

I hate it profoundly when "grow" is used as a transitive verb!

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