"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays." (Dead Poets Society 1989)

• altruistic
• fester
• schadenfreude
• oxymoron
• paradox
• flibbertigibbet
• ambivalence
• concise
• resilient