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?
And don’t forget about “murmured”. Nobody in the Twilight books ever just Say anything, they murmur.
The word “murmur” appears no less than 349 times in the Twilight book series.