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education and vocabularies, attempt to display their learning in every
story they write. Simple, familiar, everyday words, those that every
reader knows, are always the most forceful and clear, and hence the most
fitting. The following is a list of words which young writers are most
commonly tempted to use:

accord _for_ give
aggregate _for_ total
appertains _for_ pertains
apprehend _for_ arrest
calculate _for_ think, expect
canine _for_ dog
casket _for_ coffin
commence _for_ begin
conflagration _for_ fire
construction _for_ building
contribute _for_ give
cortege _for_ procession
destroyed by fire _for_ burned
donate _for_ give
elicit _for_ draw
hymeneal altar _for_ chancel
inaugurate _for_ begin
individual _for_ person
obsequies _for_ funeral
participate _for_ take part
per diem _for_ a day
perform _for_ play
purchase _for_ buy
recuperate _for_ recover
remains _for_ body, corpse
render _for_ sing
reside _for_ live
retire _for_ go to bed
rodent _for_ rat
subsequently _for_ later
tonsorial artist _for_ barber
via _for_ by way of

=173. Force.=--Force demands that one's words be emphatic. Unfortunately
a reporter cannot have readers always eager to read what he writes. If
he had, his readers would be satisfied with having his words merely
accurate and clear. Instead, they demand that their attention be
attracted, compelled. The words must be fitting, apt, fresh,
unhackneyed, specific rather than general. The spectators gathered in
the field must not be _a vast concourse_, but _ten thousand persons_.
Nor must it be _about_ ten thousand. The _about_ should be omitted. A
specific _ten thousand persons present_ is much more effective and,
being a round number, is a sufficient indication that no actual count
has been made. In all cases where there is a choice between a specific
and a general term, the specific one should be used.

=174. Trite Phrases.=--Interest requires one also to seek originality of
expression, to avoid trite phrases and hackneyed words. Embalmed meats
and kyanized sentences are never good. Yet one of the