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abjure

I urge your watchers, your seminar attendees, to abjure this habit

—p.115 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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nominalization

Buried verbs, which I was taught are called nominalizations, are turning a verb into a noun for kind of BS-y reasons.

—p.93 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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schlemiel

the person that's trying it is kind of a schlemiel

—p.54 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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solecism

characterized by crummy, turgid, verbose, abstruse, abstract, solecism-ridden prose

—p.47 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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abstruse

characterized by crummy, turgid, verbose, abstruse, abstract, solecism-ridden prose

—p.47 The interview (23) by David Foster Wallace
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