13 of my favorite misused or over used words
- Adage ~ an old saying illustrating some universal truth
- Analogy ~ particular resemblance between things otherwise unalike
- Anecdote ~ an interesting or amusing story
- Banality ~ overused, common and lacking originality
- Cliche’ ~ something that has become overly familiar or commonplace
- Epitome’ ~ the perfect representation ~ quintessential
- Euphemism ~ a polite word or phrase used in place of an offensive one
- Hackneyed ~ common place, pedestrian, dull from overuse
- Insipid ~ lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate or challenge
- Metaphor ~ a figure of speech comprised of a word or phase that transfers its meaning to to another use as a means of illustration EX: drowning in paperwork
- Platitude ~ trite remark often spoken as original though
- Quintessence ~ the purest essence of something
- Vapid ~ stale, lacking liveliness
Quintessence is such a pretty word! One of my faves, but little used, words is epitome. Enjoyed your T13
I love a good cliche’!
SJR
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What a fun list. I love words when they’re used correctly and have to laugh when people make the equivalent of malapropisms. Interesting how what they mean to say just isn’t how it comes out.
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What a great list!! At least it was unique , interesting, and NOT Vapid.
Great TT.. I guess I need to step up my vocab a bit.. 🙂
Those are some great words. There are certain phrases that certainly do it to me, like “At the End of the Day”.
Great TT, mine’s up!
I used to use ‘insipid’ a lot!!! Now you got me goin’ on it again. LOL
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Quintessence is a beautiful word. I broke down and used at as a character name because I liked it so much. *Grin*
Happy TT
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Vapid makes me laugh…that’s how my brother-in-law described most of my husband’s ex-girlfriends. Hehehehehe!
Great list!
Quintessence is music in its own right. Great words.
I use some of these too. Nice list. Have a great TT. 🙂
I’m with Nicholas. I use all but vapid in my day to day vocabulary. Happy TT.
I love word lists. Happy TT!
I’m glad to say I use pretty much all of those fairly often, except possibly vapid. But I will now!