Go a Week Without Writing Any of These Words and You Will Be a Considerably Better Writer

From Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style:                                                                                                                                                                                             Go a week without writing:

very
rather
really
quite
in fact
just (in the sense of merely)
pretty (as in “pretty tedious”)
so (in the “extremely” sense)
of course
surely
that said
actually

If you can last a week without writing any of what I’ve come to think of as the Wan Intensifiers and Throat Clearers…you will at the end of that week be a considerably better writer than you were at the beginning.