
著名暢銷書作家Jeff Goins曾對寫作時遣詞造句提出以下的看法:
Words are the lifeblood of your writing.They’re what you use to build credibility or diminish it.
精準地用詞是寫作的生命線,如果所用詞不能精準地表達我們所要表達的意思,則這種寫作是低效而不可信的。英文中有些詞是所謂的「weak word」,顧名思義,就是在表達意思時這些詞都疲軟乏力。為使我們的寫作更加精準而高效,我們要儘量避免使用所謂的「weak word」,其中用得最濫的一個詞是very, 這個詞並不能表達足夠的信息,我們可以使用下面的詞進行替換,這裡列出45個供大家參考。
very afraid-terrified
very angry-furious
very bad-atrocious
very beautiful-exquisite
very big-immense
very bright-dazzling
very capable-accomplished
very clean-spotless
very cold-freezing

very clever-brilliant
very conventional-conservative
very dirty-squalid
very dry-parched
very eager-keen
very fast-quick
very fierce-ferocious
very good-superb
very happy-jubilant

very hot-scalding
very hungry-ravenous
very large-colossal
very lively-vivacious
very loved-adored
very neat-immaculate
very old-ancient
very poor-destitute
very pretty-beautiful

very quiet-silent
very risky-perilous
very roomy-spacious
very rude-vulgar
very serious-solemn
very small-tiny
very strong-unyielding
very stupid-idiotic
very tasty-delicious

very thin-guant
very tired-exhausted
very ugly-hideous
very valuable-precious
very weak-feeble
very wet-soaked
very wicked-villainous
very wise-sagacious
very worried-anxious

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