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		gweinberg on Feb 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ways to avoid using the word 'very' Or it might be useful to do te exact opposite: analyze your writing to determine where you are using obscure words when there are common words which mean the exact same thing.

dllthomas on Feb 17, 2014 [–]

That is not quite the exact opposite, as they draw from different corpora. Both would be interesting and quite possibly useful.

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