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Ever suspect that an author has a quirky Word-of-the-Day Calendar? Some really egregious, often used for Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, the word appears in the text, perhaps not used in a completely natural way, and perhaps used in a manner egregiously inconsistent with the character's native idiolect. It appears two or three more times in subsequent egregious text, in in-egregious-creasingly unlikely settings and then is never seen again. If it does get used more consistently than that, it overlaps with Author Catchphrase. This is mostly a literary trope. Although there are examples wherever a single author has a distinguishable voice (or is just plain verbose), shows and movies are usually expensive enough to produce that this gets filtered out, not to mention that TV and movie audiences supposedly have all the vocabulary of the average toddler anyhow. Compare this to Perfectly Cromulent Word, where fictitious words are inserted in an attempt to sound smart, "Burly Detective" Syndrome, where character descriptions are frequently used in place of names, Malaproper, where similar-sounding words are used in the place of others and Delusions of Eloquence, where the words do exist but are misused in an attempt to sound smart. Reviewers seem to use this trope en masse. Magic Franchise Word is when this is done by the fans. Not to be confused with You Keep Using That Word, when a character points out another character's misuse of certain words. |
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Homeworld's devs seemed to have something for the term "outskirts". Also present, though less so, in the sequel. | |
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The Tairen Soul books and "claiming". | |
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On several occasions in Girls und Panzer: Hope Dies, when Character A responds to something Character B said to them, B will be described as A's "interlocutor." It's especially noticeable considering the author's poor command of the English language. | |
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Wild ARMs 3 was localized by long-time Final Fantasy translator Alexander O. Smith. How can you tell? He is pretty much the only game translator active today that uses the word "moreover" more than once per script. | |
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FreedomToons: Talkshow host Dave Rubin is parodied as being obsessed with the word "regressive". He uses it about thirty times in a single minute. | |
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At different times while writing the lengthy Redwall series, Brian Jacques seemed to find some love in characters "saluting smartly", performing "traditional [species]" gestures (strange because these gestures hadn't been described as traditional in previous books at all), and of course the ever-mystifying word "chunnering". note "Chunnering" is slang in the north west of England, Jacques's place of origin, for ceaselessly talking while nobody is listening. | |
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The Simpsons is fond of "poindexter", an obscure term that roughly means "nerd". This extends to nerd sweat being called "poindextrose" and Bart having been raised on an Edutainment Show called Baby Poindexter. | |
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Timeline-191 does this with a made-up word ("flabble", roughly synonymous with "whine") that was eventually invented and popularized in the alternate America of the series. | |
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The Kids in the Hall did this in-universe with a sketch where a guy on a construction site constantly used the word "ascertain" and proceeds to force various conjugations of it when the foreman calls him on it and requests that he stops. The sketch ends when the foreman thanks the man for the opportunity to "delineate" the problem. Delineate appeared on the screen and the man experienced a "Eureka!" Moment through the fourth wall. | |
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Justice League episode "Question Authority": The Question tells Luthor "while my distaste for you as a human being is brobdingnagian,note From "Brobdingnag", the land of giants in Gulliver's Travels, and meaning "outrageously huge". what I am about to do isn't personal." | |
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Sam Hughes, of Things of Interest, seems very fond of the word "fractionally". | |
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An odd example: Steven Brust's narrator Paarfi of some of the Dragaera books uses the phrase "a propos" as a lead-in to paragraphs as part of his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni seems to be rather fond of referring to MechaMew2 as a "mechanical marvel". The term is even used in its promotional trading card.◊ | |
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The Legend of Drizzt: R.A. Salvatore went through a period where he eschewed all other way to say "used hand gestures for magic spell" in favor of "waggled their fingers". Waggled? That guy just lightning-ed a lich back to a briny undeath!. Also, any attack with a blunt weapon "blasts" the opponent, and characters almost never agree - they just "do not disagree". | |
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Terry Brooks loves to use "dissemble" for lie in the Shannara series. | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the word 'surreptitious' is used six times. Interestingly enough, however, it is far less present in the rest of the books. "Rent" (meaning "torn apart") is used several times, used figuratively. J. K. Rowling is probably the last writer in the English language to use "ejaculated" as an innocuous synonym for "said". She only did it a couple times, but it was memorable enough that the fandom has taken the mickey out of it ever since. (She also uses "ejaculated" in The Silkworm, the second novel in her Cormoran Strike series.) "Play a drinking game with the term 'darkly' and... die of alcohol poisoning," he said darkly. |
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In order to appear more intelligent than he really was, GOB spent an episode of Arrested Development shoehorning the word "circumvent" into conversation after learning the word from Michael. | |
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The Rebuild of Nobody Dies really likes the word "warble". | |
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In The Dresden Files characters will rarely simply have walked over to something. Characters will have "padded" somewhere. Regardless of footwear or any other factor that would influence the sound their steps make. Bare feet on a wooden floor. "Padded." Cowboy boots on marble. Also "padded." | |
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In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy, characters rarely seem to do anything "quickly," but they're constantly doing things "with alacrity." | |
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There's a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic (Neon Genesis Evangelion R, if memory serves correctly) where Rei's eyes were always being referred to as "alizarin". Alizarin (or "alizarin crimson") happens to be a deep bluish-red pigment — and probably the true color of Rei's eyes, at that. But it still looks like fanfic thesaurusitis. (There's an entire family of dyes/pigments called "alizarine <color name>". The actual compound known simply as "alizarin", though, is a pretty good match for Rei's eyes.) | |
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Whateley Universe: Diane Castle trots out some new vocab in every Phase novel. Words like: 'propaedeutic', a student's Atrocious Alias, where obscure words are the most likely to not be taken by anyone else. 'fictile', as part of the narration in Test Tube Babies, referring to the plastic of a plastic explosive. |
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The authors of Undocumented Features are overly fond of the word "sardonic", which they seem to use to describe every third facial expression. | |
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Episodes of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers would have this, seemingly having episodes based on phrases like "deja vu" and "vice-versa." | |
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The Big Bang Theory, "The Desperation Emanation": Sheldon and Amy apparently engage in this activity: | |
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Rex Stout, creator of gourmand-turned-P.I. Nero Wolfe, made a point of using a few unfamiliar words in every Wolfe story or novel he wrote; the words would usually be utilized by Wolfe himself or his business partner, Archie Goodwin. Given, however, that Wolfe likes to flaunt his intellect in true Hercule Poirot fashion, Stout may have been doing this as character development - at least when Wolfe does it. When Archie Goodwin does it, it occasionally approaches Sophisticated as Hell. Plot It Yourself has Wolfe identifying the author of a piece of text by how often particular words show up. In one early novel, all the characters are 'ejaculating' all over the place. As in, exclaiming. Very much a case of Have a Gay Old Time. In particular, Wolfe is fond of describing any fabricated story someone tells him as a 'flummery' (sometimes 'sheerest flummery' if the lie is particularly egregious). Literally, a flummery is type of dessert, but it has a metaphoric meaning of 'humbug'. (Of course, given Nero Wolfe's fondness for fine dining, perhaps it is not strange he reaches for this term.) |
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At one point during their sessions playing Player Unknowns Battlegrounds, Northern Lion and Dan Gheesling latched onto the word "acquiesce" and never let go. They also never bothered to learn what it actually means. | |
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The HD cutscene compilation of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days refers to Saïx as an "adjutant", and renders Lexeaus's title, "The Silent Hero" as the "Taciturn Stalwart". | |
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The narrator of M. John Harrison's science fiction novel Light uses the word "ruched" several times, among others. There's also 'etiolated'? | |
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The developers of Warcraft / World of Warcraft really, REALLY like the word "azure" as a synonym for blue, often in reference to the Blue Dragonflight. Mists of Pandaria's writers seem to be really interested in using "nutriment" as often as possible. |
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The characters in The Rod Squad talk like it's The '70s—because it's Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers in 1979. The following words pop up remarkably often for such a short story: variations of "hassle" (20 times, and this is a short story) variations of "boogie" and "boogey" (11 times, all of which stand for locomotion involving a dune buggy) "gritty inner city" (10 times) "Right on!" (6 times) variations of "ripoff" (6 times) |
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The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' da Rules has Cosmo or Wanda say "that's about the size of it" numerous times. | |
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Someone at Marvel really liked symbiote as a word. | |
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xkcd: Wikipedia's propensity for using specific words over and over is discussed in strip #739 "Malamanteau". | |
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Kira-Kira and other OVERDRIVE games have characters that "smile bitterly". What exactly is a bitter smile? Who knows. | |
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In A Feast for Crows, characters with uncles refer to them as "nuncle" (a phrasing not found in earlier books in the series). | |
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Almost every time the sky comes up in Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts, it's described with the word "welkin". | |
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In-universe example in Unseen Academicals. Glenda knows a lot of strange words because they're the favorite words of romance novel writers. Though she isn't sure about "reticule" and "boudoir." | |
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Some people believe that Eminem's song "Discombobulated" was written because, if you search for "words without rhymes", 'discombobulate' is suggested in Google's top answer. (He rhymes it with "Miss, you ovulating?") | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Gary Gygax put a noticeable stamp on the first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons books. "Dweomer," "geas" and "weal" win for obscurity; "notwithstanding" for frequency. Also "former" and "latter." He also loved (i.e., used all the time) Latin abbreviations (e.g., e.g. and i.e.), even really academic ones, (e.g., Ibid. and Op. cit.) placed in ordinary text (Ibid.) The first edition Dungeon Master's Guide is full of these. When reading the "Fiend Folio", a monster handbook dealing with fiends you will stumble over the word emaciated many times. Maybe these fiends don't get enough to eat. The retroclone ‘‘Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea'' (based on 2nd Edition but published in 2012) uses the same obscure abbreviations (q.v.), British spelling, the archaic Old English ligture æ even in places where it makes no sense, and the author apparently used search and replace to replace every instance of "between" with "betwixt". And it's especially jarring because the rest of the text is otherwise obvious modern American English. This might all be a play on the original book's style. |
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Joe Abercrombie of The First Law uses the words "squelch," "grimace" and "dour" at least once a chapter. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, while being tried by the Queen of Hearts, Sora delivers the line "This trial is a farce!" which is not only an unusual word choice for the game but also defies Sora's portrayal as the Idiot Hero. This choice of words carries over to the re-enactment of this scene in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. | |
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The Four Gospels: Depending on the translation, St. Mark's favorite word is "immediately." The Greek is "εὐθύς" or "εὐθέως" (euthys/eutheos) which appear over forty times in a work roughly the length of a modern short story. | |
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The stories in The Nowakverse, another Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fanfic Verse, makes a lot of use of two particular words. One is "byronic", referring to Widget and including Widget referring to herself as a Byronic Hero quite a number of times. The other one is "pelagic" which tries to refer to cats' behavior but doesn't mean what the author thought it means. Needless to say, the author didn't spare this when he MSTed his own fic. | |
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Several characters in the The Lord of the Rings fanfic The Captain and the King are extremely concerned about Gondor's "weal." | |
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In Transformers: Prime, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Ultra Magnus all use the word "paramount" as an adjective within the span of roughly a half-season. | |
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Parodied in the Death Note fic The Human Whose Name Is Written In This Fanfiction: | |
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Daniel Handler parodies this through A Series of Unfortunate Events, using a big word then providing a definition that probably isn't accurate, but which does give a decent sense of the meaning intended for the situation, usually prefacing these definitions with the phrase "a word which here means...". It's funny if you know the word already, and educational if you don't. Everybody wins! | |
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Done in-universe in an episode of Boy Meets World where Eric has an actual word-of-the-day calendar. Unfortunately, the episode deals with relationship issues and the word of the day is "estranged". For the whole week. (Paraphrased:) | |
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The MSTing of The Eye of Argon lampshades it: | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, he seems to repeatedly make certain word choices with Anglo-Saxon or similarly archaic roots: He uses "jape" and occasionally "jest" instead of "joke." In A Dance with Dragons the word 'leal' for 'loyal' seemed to be on every other page. A ridiculous situation is always a "mummers' farce." Actors and non-musical performers are only called "mummers." His use of reversed numbering, such as "five and forty" instead of "forty-five." In A Dance with Dragons, the phrase "Ramsay in his wroth" is used frequently in the Reek/Theon chapters. Actually quite funny since "wroth" is being used to replace "wrath" and "wroth" means "angry" rather than "anger." He likes to use the phrase "must needs" instead of just must or need. He uses "raper" instead of "rapist." "Holdfast" instead of "fortress." "Words" rather than "motto". "Craven" as a noun much more often than "coward." Vomiting is only ever "retching" (which is confusing, since that usually means to gag without actually puking). |
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Though certainly not a particularly bad offender, one of the later arcs of the Pokémon fic Latias' Journey uses the word "piscene" a few times for some reason. | |
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The English translation of Knight of Lolicon really likes the word "fulminating". Possibly Justified in that the translation, while readable, is mediocre at best, so it may sound more natural in the original Spanish. | |
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Brave New World considers everything "pneumatic": an overstuffed chair cushion is a "pneumatic chair"; two women ask each other if they are "too pneumatic" the way normal women ask if an outfit makes them look fat; a character even mentions how "pneumatic" Bernard's semi-girlfriend is - after having sex with her. It's a Real Life period thing. For a while during that time "pneumatic" was a common word (at least among Sci-Fi writers) when referring to women with large breasts and hips. Similar to words like "built", "stacked", "full-figured", "shapely", "voluptuous" and "zaftig". The Demolished Man even refers to plastic surgery as "pneumatic surgery" when referring to a woman who had her breasts enlarged. | |
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The parody sets for Magic: The Gathering have cards that lampshade a few words they use a bit much. | |
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Oceanborn by Nightwish, with "Stargazers" as the most obvious example. Granted, Tuomas Holopainen was barely 19 when he wrote that stuff. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: Steven Erikson seems to have his seasonal favourite words from book to book, though 'potsherds', 'detritus', 'must needs', 'efficacy', 'desiccated', 'burgeoning' and 'pate' (nobody has a scalp, only pates) span the entire length of his main series. 'Egregious' pops up quite a lot in Toll the Hounds, and other words of the season include 'equity', 'mien', 'sunder/asunder', 'lass', 'misshapen', 'febrile', 'billowing', 'gelid', 'crepuscular', 'singular', 'despond' and 'hoary'. And characters have the tendency to growl, drawl and scamper about instead of talking and walking. | |
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It seems that GRRM bought himself a dictionary of uncommon words between A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows. All of a sudden, King's Landing is building galleas and dromonds. | |
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My Immortal: Those limpid tears. Statistically Sexily. |
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"Concatenate" and variants on the word often in Iron Council. It only comes up a few times, but it's an unusual word, so it stands out. | |
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Dave Grohl has admitted that a few lyrics in the Foo Fighters' first album "aren't even words", so in a cross with this, the lines seem like anything that came to his head: | |
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Mervyn Peake, author of the Gormenghast "trilogy", used the word "qualm" to mean "shiver or ripple, as of delight' and, oddly, "prank" to mean "blotch or spot, pick out, color, highlight". Also, the Tower of Flints is a blasphemous finger of stone pointing at the sky. | |
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On Critical Role, Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer has a distinctive vocabulary when he describes new places and creatures, no doubt gained from a childhood reading old Dungeons & Dragons books—note the entry in Tabletop Games above. He's especially fond of "sigil" (which he didn't even pronounce correctly until the show's audience started getting on his case about it) and "entity". | |
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Ambush Bug: ADVANTAGEOUS! | |
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L. M. Montgomery obviously discovered the ellipsis punctuation mark sometimes between writing the first Anne of Green Gables, going from not using it to using it thousands of times in the sequels. Montgomery thought the punctuation sign was something more akin to an emphatic comma or am em-dash, and so would drop them everywhere. | |
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Gameknight999: Gameknight999 is referred to as the User-that-is-not-a-user a lot. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 sourcebooks have a tendency to describe weapons in terms of their ability to carve through "flesh, armor and bone alike". | |
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In Unsounded the word "moiety" has shown up several more times than would be expected (zero, really) in the comic and in accompanying materials. | |
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The entire Doctor Who fandom has a perennial love affair with the words "gravitas", "pantomime" and "nadir". | |
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It seems practically blasphemy NOT to describe Yugi's eyes as "amethyst-colored orbs." The Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction-writing fandom was particularly fond of its overuse of the word "orb." Dear GOD, it was fond of it... | |
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Kinoko Nasu's works, whether it be on behalf of the translators or himself, will always feature "with murderous intent" as a description. And that's not mentioning the sex scenes and mollusks. | |
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Bernard Cornwell, in the Sharpe series and elsewhere, likes using the word "flensed" in the context of battle wounds. Wounded people frequently "mew" instead of the more common whimpering, groaning etc. | |
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R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse: "Marmoreal" crops up maybe ten times a book, particularly because many scenes are set in marble palaces, catacombs or ruins. "Hooked," used abstractly as a verb and adjective to describe something clinging in a violent or unpleasant way, such as muscle on a creature's physique or a smile on a face. |
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The Twilight series contains many of these, which is understandable since Stephenie Meyer is an English major and her narrator strives to seem sophisticated. Stephenie Meyer's favorite words are "Adonis," "incredulous" and "chuckle." Seriously, characters sometimes "chuckle" (insert adverb here) several times on a single page. Apparently "chagrin" as well, if you believe this fanfic Likewise, "sparkle", "dazzle" and their similes. Case in point: "He was both dazzling and dazzled". "Scintillating" as a much-needed synonym for "sparkling," as in "Edward's scintillating arms". It's correct, albeit archaic, usage. In modern English, it's more usual to use the word to mean "witty". The word's original and literal meaning is "to emit sparks." |
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Neal Shusterman really likes to use the term 'boeuf' to describe strong people or military personnel. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: Referenced in-universe in "The Survivor." Bruce the Rottweiler apparently has been looking at his master's "word-a-day" calendar to spruce up his vocabulary. He tries to use the word "anomaly" in his description of Mittens's barbed witticisms, but goofs the word up. This leads to a Chain of Corrections which confuse things all the more, until Alastair the Welsh Corgi lampshades the calendar's usage and finally gets the word right. | |
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A video commentary of a Mega Man 3 run by The Megas ends up on this topic. Can be found a few seconds after the nine-minute mark. This is extra hilarious when it comes up again at the beginning of Part 6. |
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Perdido Street Station contains a remarkable number of things which are "jagged" or "jags" of some material, as well as "inchoate". | |
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An English translation of The Count of Monte Cristo. There are around seventeen uses of "singular" in one chapter. | |
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Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle: Nobody ever camps out, they "bivouac." (It isn't even used correctly half the time, as "bivouac" refers to a strictly no-tents-no-nothing military operation and not just setting up bedrolls and a fire in the woods.) | |
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F.A.T.A.L. has ample amounts of atypical alliterations applied in appellations of accidental alchemical aftereffects and articles. | |
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Worlds in the Myst games are often named using using obscure but descriptive words like Selenitic ("resembling the moon", or "made of gypsum"), Rime ("a layer of ice formed when fog freezes"), or Riven ("split into multiple parts") - Myst itself is named for the root of "mystic" and "mystery". Later games named worlds in the invented language of the D'ni, but the practice would be revived in the series' spiritual successors Obduction ("the act of pulling a cover over something") and Firmament ("a strong support, foundation, or structure", or "the heavens, portrayed as divine architecture in religious poetry"). | |
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Star Wars Legends: Troy Denning's "efflux". Michael Kaminski, in The Secret History of Star Wars, uses "inevitable" and "inevitably" way too much, and often incorrectly. |
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The Ciaphas Cain book Duty Calls: May create an allergy to the word "scuttling" (as in "scuttling horrors", "scuttling movement", "scuttling noises" and everything else related to Tyranids) in its readers. Absolutely anything out of the ordinary (but especially things relating to Hypercompetent Sidekick Jurgen) can be described as "preternatural". |
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"Abomination" in Lilo & Stitch. He's a killer Space-Dropbear! He warrants it! "Imagine, if you will..." also gets used several times in the original film's DVD commentary. | |
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Possible example in Super Paper Mario X: Child found the word "rigmarole" hilarious and she got Link to bring it up without making it seem awkward. | |
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The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All: In a fan translation, Mitsuki, a music lover who seems to be of average intelligence, describes her uncle's record store as "moribund" in Chapter 15. | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries seem to use "singular" Once an Episode. | |
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In the 1990s, almost every other story featuring Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager called his blue eyes "cerulean". Cerulean eyes in story after story. Worst part: cerulean is a specific shade of blue, and his eyes aren't that shade. | |
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In A Dance with Dragons, suddenly no one is ever right anymore. Instead they're "not wrong." | |
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In Breaking Bad, Walt insists that Jesse 'ameliorates' their current situation. | |
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Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative". The joke was that he'd just learned the word and was using it to impress people. | |
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Artemis Fowl: Orion Fowl seems to have a thing about bivouacs. (A Running Gag?) | |
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Kingdom Hearts: In Kingdom Hearts, while being tried by the Queen of Hearts, Sora delivers the line "This trial is a farce!" which is not only an unusual word choice for the game but also defies Sora's portrayal as the Idiot Hero. This choice of words carries over to the re-enactment of this scene in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The HD cutscene compilation of Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days refers to Saïx as an "adjutant", and renders Lexeaus's title, "The Silent Hero" as the "Taciturn Stalwart". |
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In Friends, Joey does seem to pepper his speech with 'acrimonious' after he gets a word-a-day calendar. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the word 'surreptitious' is used six times. Interestingly enough, however, it is far less present in the rest of the books. | |
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More excusable than some, Tad Williams came up with the Greek-derived term 'pentecount' (referring to a unit of fifty) for Shadowmarch. He used it frequently. | |
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Wikipedia: Wikipedia falls victim to it occasionally, too. See here, with the word "calcimine". This is common enough with some words that xkcd made fun of it. The Other Wiki seems to like using "characteristic" to describe odourants. A chemical never just has a smell, it has a "characteristic" one, though if the Wiki feels it's overused that word it might use "distinctive" instead. |
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