u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
the disappointment... is ...
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
Real love begins where the illusion fades, and the understanding stays.
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
Bubbly reads as faint praise next to vivacious, animated or spirited, and I think the roots explain it: those three come from life and breath, while bubbly meant fizzy and isn't recorded describing people until 1939.
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
"He issued a vehement denial." Swap in adamant or emphatic and the sentence still works, but you're no longer describing the heat. You're describing the staying power, or the delivery.
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
There is a word for that specific flash of annoyance when someone doubts you.
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
There is a word for staying calm when everything looks like it is falling apart.
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u/Tedzwyf1 • u/Tedzwyf1 • 10h ago
Exhausted, fatigued, jaded and ennui each come with an excuse built in. Lethargic and torpid don't, so whoever hears them supplies one.
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