Definition Essay: The Power Of Words

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The ages old argument of society being soft still persists today. But this time, the focus of the disparaging comments is a little different: words. Are our words becoming soft, too? Is the need for approval so strong that EVERYTHING is posh, EVERYTHING is incredible? As it would happen, yes. And what’s more, this plushiness of speech is actually destroying itself. If everything is overly fantastic, then overly fantastic is normal. But how can we know this is real? It’s not possible for this to be achieved, however, since someone will always be more fabulous than anyone else. We need to stop overusing these words, or else they will lose all meaning.
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Often times I hear the phrase “I am literally starving right now” to convey that the person is hungry. In cases like this, people begin to lose sight of the real meaning of the word “literal.” There are conversations I have with people who, in all actuality, do not know the true definition of literal, using it only as a filler or a descriptor to worsen the scenario. This word is peculiar, however, as it seems to trend a different way of a word like pretty. While pretty in over-inflated for the positive side of things, “literally” can point towards a plethora of different degrees of positivity and negativity. That being said, literally still classifies as an “over-inflated word” since its use derives from the actual meaning of the word and leads to a very exaggerated understanding of its very basic concepts. If we continue to lose the basic concepts of words throughout our language, the English language will begin a long descent into a quintessentially grey plain of words that fail to describe

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