Thursday, June 11, 2020

Thursday Thirteen

Here's a quick list today.  Thirteen words to use instead of "very."  There are dozens more, of course, but these are my top 13, partly because most suggest an oxymoron.

1. awfully - She is awfully pretty.
2.  clearly - You clearly don't see the problem.
3.  significantly - Your point is significantly unimportant.
4. completely - This project is completely unfinished.
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5.  extraordinarily - This project is extraordinarily bland.
6.  unusually - That reaction to this news is unusually common.
7.  infinitely - The chances of rain today are infinitely low.
8.  especially - That show was especially boring.

9.  fantastically - The performance was fantastically dreadful.
10. notably - The professor's speech was notably inconsequential.
11. seriously - Those jokes are seriously funny.
12.  exceedingly - This year's performance review was exceedingly mundane.
13. enormously - The crowd was enormously small.
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6 comments:

  1. we used to eat junk food while watching the Biggest Loser, another oxymoron. I like exceedingly mundane. LeeAnna

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  2. Hi,
    great Thirteen....have a great day!

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  3. I think the best way to deal with "very" is to simply drop it. Adverbs in and of themselves are expendable in most cases.

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  4. The fact that so many of us can't manage the language is tragically humorous.

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