I’m currently reading The Duke and I and the author is constantly using the word “acerbic”. I had never heard of the word before now and had to google the definition. The word has shown up so much that I’m tempted to go through the book and count its appearances lol.

Have you noticed any authors having favorite words that they use page after page?

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    Fonda Lee uses the word “nonplussed” in her green bone series what felt like a lot for a less common word.

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    I quit reading Lee Child because of a repeated fascination with " I said nothing " . Like not repeated four or five times…it felt like he was several hundred words short of a word goal so he added " I said nothing " into the manuscript to fill the gap.

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    I’m guilty of variations of “incredulous” when people don’t believe something.

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    I am reading The picture of Dorian Gray, and have noticed that the word conscience pops up very often. I don’t know if it’s a commonly used word I didn’t know what it exactly meant before. It may be a commonly used term but English isn’t my first language.

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    James Luceno, Darth Paleguis, and the word genuflected. I’m not sure if I ever heard it before this book, but it sounds so fancy I kind of want to incorporate it into my speech, lol.

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    If you you took a shot every time William Faulkner uses the word “recapitulation” you’d be almost as drunk as William Faulkner