These are words and phrases I suspect and avoid:
- advent
- ail (and
ailing
)
- amid
- anew
- author (verb)
- ask (noun)
- bastion
- battle (verb)
- beleaguer
- belie
- bevy
- bid (for
try
)
- bolster
- burgeon
- call for
- clash
- clinch
- crucible
- enjoy (for
have
)
- exist (for
be
)
- face (verb)
- famed
- figure (for
person
)
- firefight
- flare (verb)
- garner
- gift (noun)
- get (noun)
- grist
- gunman
- growing trend
- hotbed
- issues (for
problems
)
- lackluster
- lambast
- lampoon
- land (verb)
- locate (for
find
)
- location (for
place
)
- long (verb)
- longtime
- mar
- maven
- meaningful
- mount (intransitively, for
grow
)
- mull
- negate (for
remove
)
- name (for
appoint
or make
)
- paean
- peril
- pollster
- post (for
make
)
- pressure (verb)
- probe
- pundit
- quash
- rampant
- real (especially
to make this a reality
for do this
)
- represents (for
is
, as in represents a significant problem
)
- revamp
- sack (verb, for
fire
)
- sanction
- see (for
predict
)
- seek
- shatter (transitive verb)
- significant
- slate (for
plan
, as in slated for Tuesday
)
- slap (for
serve
, as in slap them with a fine
)
- slay
- space (for
place
)
- stake (verb)
- strife
- stymie
- suffer (for
experience
)
- surge
- to (for
will
)
- top (verb)
- tout
- trumpet (verb)
- utilize (for
use
)
- vaunt
- vow
- wary
- witness (verb)
- woo
- wrangle