Aspirant.

Authoress Beat, use defeat.

Bagging, use capturing.

Balance, use remainder.

Banquet, use dinner or supper.

Bogus.

Casket, use coffin.

Claimed, use asserted.

Collided.

Commence, use begin.

Compete.

Cortege, use procession.

Cotemporary, use contemporary.

Couple, use two.

Darkey, use negro.

Day before yesterday, use the day before yesterday.

Debut.

Decease, as a verb.

Democracy, applied to a political party.

Develop, use expose.

Devouring element, use fire.

Donate.

Employe.

Enacted, use acted.

Endorse, use approve.

En route.

Esq.

Graduate, use is graduated.

Gents, use gentlemen.

Hon.

House, use House of Representatives.

Humbug.

Inaugurate, use begin.

In our midst.

Item, use particle, extract, or paragraph.

Is being done, and all similar passive forms.

Jeopardize.

Jubilant, use rejoicing.

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Juvenile, use boy.

Lady, use wife.

Last, use latest.

Lengthy, use long.

Leniency, use lenity.

Loafer.

Loan, or loaned, use lend or lent.

Located.

Majority, use most.

Mrs. President.

Mrs. Governor.

Mrs. General.

Mutual, use common.

Official, use officer.

Ovation.

On yesterday.

Over his signature.

Pants, use pantaloons.

Parties, use persons.

Partially, use partly.

Past two weeks, use last two weeks.

Poetess.

Portion, use part.

Posted, use informed.

Progress, use advance.

Quite, when prefixed to good, large, etc.

Raid, use attack.

Realized, use obtained.

Reliable, use trustworthy.

Rendition, use performance.

Repudiate, use reject or disown.

Retire, as an active verb.v Rev., use the Rev.

Role, use part.

Roughs.

Rowdies.

Secesh.

Sensation, use noteworthy event.

Standpoint, use point of view.

Start, in the sense of setting out.

State, use say.

Taboo.

Talent, use talents or ability.

Talented.

Tapis.

The deceased.

War, use dispute or disagreement.

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STILTS

Avoid bombastic language. Work for plain expressions rather than for the unusual. Use the simplest words that the subject will bear.

The following clipping, giving an account of the commencement exercises of a noted female college, strikingly illustrates what to avoid:

"Like some beacon-light upon a rock-bound coast against which the surges of the ocean unceasingly roll, and casting its beams far across the waters warning the mariner from the danger near, the college, like a Gibraltar, stands upon the high plains of learning, shedding its rays of knowledge, from the murmurings of the Atlantic to the whirlwinds of the Pacific, guiding womankind from the dark valley of ignorance, and wooing her with wisdom's lore, leads creation's fairest, purest, best into flowery dells where she can pluck the richest food of knowledge, and crowns her brow with a coronet of gems whose brilliancy can never grow dim: for they glisten with the purest thought, that seems as a spark struck from the mind of Deity. There is no need for the daughters of this community to seek colleges of distant climes whereat to be educated, for right here in their own city, God's paradise on earth, is situated a noble college, the bright diadem of that paradise, that has done more for the higher education of woman than any institution in our land."