Words

• Hinky
• Meta-(anything)
• Hermeneutics
• Whatnot
• Proverbial
• Hairy (to describe something difficult or anxiety-provoking)
• Bifurcated
• Kafka-esque
• Anal (to describe a meticulous person)
• Text (to describe anything other than a book)
• Milieu
• Undergraduate (used as an adjective, to describe something worthy of contempt)
• Antisocial (to describe someone retiring or reserved)
• Natch
• Niche (when pronounced "neesh")
• Everydayness
• Paratactic
• Game-changer
• Massage (in any other context than an actual, literal, spa-related massage)
• Nuggets
• Ask (when used as a noun)

Phrases

• "Caught with a hand in the proverbial cookie jar"
• "What can we pull out of this [stanza/passage/etc.]?"
• "I feel like" (to begin a statement of an opinion or observation, rather than a description of the person's emotions)
• "As it were"
• "See what I did there?"
• "Very married"
• "Stew in one's own juices"
• "Just to piggyback on what [so-and-so] was saying"
• "Roll out"