I need a good word?

Question

I have this assignment where I need to choose a word and write an essay on it. These are the 3 main things I have to do.
Any ideas for a good word to use????

Choose any word which could be better used or should receive more attention or is wrongly used or could be differently used.

Present several dictionary definitions of the word and briefly discuss the range of meanings ascribed to the word.

Present the etymology of the word and any implications or inferences related to the way the word might be understood or used.

Answer 1

Love
overused, misused, and misunderstood

Answer 2

Deprecate: to call down curses upon, to anathematize. A "self-deprecating" person curses his own existence, saving a priest or his wife the job. What is meant is usually "self-effacing" or "self-depreciating."


Plethora: An abundance, yes, but a special abundance. One that is not only excessive, but also unhealthy. "A plethora of things to do" is not a positive statement about an amusement park. A Denver Post business reporter wrote of DIA that it had a "plethora of shops" and enjoyed a "prolific Continental Airways." Did he really mean that it had an unhealthy excess of shops, and that Continental made lots of little airlines? His vocabulary is too large for his writing skill.

Ensorcelled: This excellent word was used by a witchfinder in 1541, and again by Maureen Dowd in 2001 in the newspaper, where the reading level is supposed to be age 11. I had to go to the Oxford Universal Dictionary to find it; it is not in Johnson, Oxford Concise, Funk and Wagnalls or even in Roget's Thesarus, so it is definitely a rare word, used every 500 years. It means bewitched, and the connotation is probably rather sinister (I do not know for sure, of course), but Ms Dowd used it for spice, rather than communication. Incidentally, using Roget's to make your writing seem educated is dangerous, unless you are as skilled as Maureen. A reader informs me that this word appears rather often in fantasy literature, so Maureen isn't its only user.

hope it helps some

Answer 3

Why not try the common word "Love"??... It is the only word widely used by guys but very few really understood...

Answer 4

evolution
evolution is a great word to do an essay on.

Answer 5

Here's my ideas:

-Drugs (not like to take them but help people not to do it)
-Diabetes
-Anorexia

Answer 6

copious

Answer 7

FREEDOM

Answer 8

money

Answer 9

Sodomy