Most of vocab belows are from The Element of Style Illustrated.
Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
… Full of belief, sustained and elevated by the power of purpose, armed with the rules of grammar, you are ready for exposure.
- surefooted
The longest way round is usually the shortest way home, and the one truly reliable shortcut in writing is to choose words that are strong and surefooted to carry readers on their way.
- peril, mutilation
You do so at your peril, for it is the language of mutilation.’
- cartridge
People in business say that toner cartridges are in short supply…
- portentous
Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure, executive walk among toner cartridges, capariosons like knights.
- coinage
- bedevil
- insinuating
The trouble with adopting coinages too quickly is that they will bedevil one by insinuating themselves where they do not belong.
- cinch
- plight
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