Today at work I was talking to a co-worker, and we were lamenting using the same words over and over. The particular word that prompted the discussion was "awesome", as in "You went for a hike yesterday? That's awesome" or "That shirt looks so awesome on you". I am definitely guilty of overusing "awesome" and a few other words as well ("incredible", "totally", and "hilarious", are ones that come to mind). At one time I had a pretty decent vocabulary, but in recent years I have become overly reliant on a pool of words that doesn't do the world around me justice. My co-worker and I joked that it would be fun to try to identify five words that we use more often than we'd like to and make a 5 word thesaurus to carry around. I'm going to do just this, so please don't judge me if I tell you "What a magnificent blue shirt you have on today" or "I'll bet the dawn hike you went on was breathtaking". Plus, I can dust off my old thesaurus... after all, it is the expanded edition for the 1990s!
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