annoying words to read or hear

Writers (some of you are repeat, serial offender), please don’t write these words. That goes double for artists; don’t use them.

artifice

entropy

fragility

duality 

evoke

entrepôt 

exigency 

supplant

effulgence

inexorable

inscrutable

halcyon

inchoate

frisson

curate

prosaic

“a beat”

baronial

thrumming

mesmeric

coruscating

disillusion

ineffable 

tumult

peripatetic 

quixotic

gelidity