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[personal profile] skud: I have a glass of bourbon which is nearly empty, and a google doc in which I am writing myself a recommendation letter.
[personal profile] commodorified: Don't forget to remove any sentences containing the words Acquitted, Squids, or Frottage
[personal profile] skud: already removed them.

Which reminded me that, as I am somewhat ill and in need of amusement, it's time for word games, specifically for a round of:

Action Verbs To Avoid When Writing Your CV


I'll start:

Defenestrate
Abscond
Strafe
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Date: 2012-02-27 07:10 am (UTC)
recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
Excoriate.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:11 am (UTC)
epershand: An ampersand (Default)
From: [personal profile] epershand
Capitulate
Appropriate
Throw [under the bus]
Complicate
Decelerate
Concede

Date: 2012-02-27 10:19 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Levitate.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:16 am (UTC)
kd5mdk: (better than nerve disruptor)
From: [personal profile] kd5mdk
Polandate.

Date: 2012-03-03 07:06 pm (UTC)
girlpearl: (doctors are mad trustworthy)
From: [personal profile] girlpearl
Well now, some of us can make a legitimate claim on that one.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:20 am (UTC)
fairestcat: Dreadful the cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] fairestcat
Conceal
Rescind
Remonstrate
Fling
Thrust
Shovel

Date: 2012-02-27 07:29 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: "#dw (yes, we can)" and a clenched fist (#dw)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Fist.

Trample.
Blow. (As applied to either fellatio or the whistle.)
Rend.
Flame.
Expose.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:30 am (UTC)
thorfinn: <user name="seedy_girl"> and <user name="thorfinn"> (Default)
From: [personal profile] thorfinn
Deliquesce.
Discombobulate.
Disembowel.
Deny.
Deliverate.

My brain is stuck on D, apparently.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:34 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
True story, so my high school buddy who microwaved the cordless phone that one time actually kept a katana in the trunk of his car when doing pizza delivery.

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Date: 2012-02-27 07:31 am (UTC)
denise: Image: Me, facing away from camera, on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome (Default)
From: [staff profile] denise
Explode.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:36 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Incinerate.
Devastate. (Can be abbreviated to "dev" at need.)
Uninstall.
Erase.
Infect.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:38 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Contaminate.
Interrupt.
Backpedal.
Flee.
Ignite.
Erupt.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:40 am (UTC)
dorothean: detail of painting of Gandalf, Frodo, and Gimli at the Gates of Moria, trying to figure out how to open them (Default)
From: [personal profile] dorothean
Exorcise, inseminate, transubstantiate, decorticate, macerate, impale.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:42 am (UTC)
automaticdoor: Carefully recreated screenshot of Britta from Community ep 3x08 captioned "Britta Perry, Anarchist Cat Owner" (Default)
From: [personal profile] automaticdoor
Hey, if you were applying to be a priest, exorcising and transubstantiating would be perfectly fine!

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Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

From: [personal profile] azurelunatic - Date: 2012-02-27 07:54 am (UTC) - Expand

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

From: [personal profile] azurelunatic - Date: 2012-02-27 08:56 am (UTC) - Expand

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

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Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

From: [personal profile] azurelunatic - Date: 2012-02-27 06:14 pm (UTC) - Expand

Re: Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

From: [personal profile] pauamma - Date: 2012-02-27 08:17 pm (UTC) - Expand

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Date: 2012-02-27 07:41 am (UTC)
automaticdoor: a drawing of janine kishi from the bsc with the caption "janine kishi is unimpressed with your bullshit." (janine unimpressed)
From: [personal profile] automaticdoor
Shred.
Destroy.
Manipulate.

Boyfriend suggests: obfuscate.

(We are obviously law students.)
Edited (adding in one more word.) Date: 2012-02-27 07:46 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-02-27 10:34 am (UTC)
chickenfeet: (Default)
From: [personal profile] chickenfeet
boyfriend obviously does not aspire to a position in the Civil Service

Eschew obfuscation

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Date: 2012-02-27 07:42 am (UTC)
thorfinn: <user name="seedy_girl"> and <user name="thorfinn"> (Default)
From: [personal profile] thorfinn
Also, do not abbrev. Analyst Programmer to four letters per word. Unless applying for jobs at NSFW organisations.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:45 am (UTC)
inoru_no_hoshi: The most ridiculous chandelier ever: shaped like a penis. Text: Sparklepeen. (Default)
From: [personal profile] inoru_no_hoshi
LOL IRL!

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Date: 2012-02-27 07:46 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Neglect.
Forget.
Squash.
Shiv.
Catapult.

Date: 2012-02-27 12:08 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] alexbayleaf
Shiv is a great one. I have been having trouble thinking of good ones that aren't latinate, and that's the best I've seen so far.

Date: 2012-02-27 07:53 am (UTC)
azurelunatic: Watermark of LJ logo, captioned: I accidentally my whole friends list (accidentally)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
Weep.
Intimidate.
Interrogate.
Accidentally.
Needle.
Break.
Hijack.
Commandeer.
Besiege.

Date: 2012-02-27 08:25 am (UTC)
oursin: A cloud of words from my LJ (word cloud)
From: [personal profile] oursin
Marmolise

Date: 2012-02-27 10:21 am (UTC)
oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [personal profile] oursin
Absquatulate

Problematise

Catheterise (unless applying for a job in some medical sphere where this might be appropriate)

Cauterise

Amputate

Date: 2012-02-27 09:35 am (UTC)
emceeaich: Big rocks from outer space solve many problems. (boom)
From: [personal profile] emceeaich
Imminentize (possibly okay if applying for positions with security clearances)

Twisted slightly

Date: 2012-02-27 10:17 am (UTC)
wordweaverlynn: (wtf)
From: [personal profile] wordweaverlynn
Flense
Lobotomize
Drop (as in acid)
Impregnate
Spank
Augur

All these words could appear on my resume or on that of someone in my family.

One of my cousins spent three years flensing the catch on an Alaskan fishing boat. Someone once asked me how one might go about preparing for a career in peeling subarctic fish. "A degree in biology from the University of Chicago."

My mother assisted doctors in lobotomizing patients when she was a young psychiatric nurse. She also dropped genuine Sandoz acid for NIMH.

One of my brothers-in-law worked as a bovine inseminator,

Spank -- well, you may be aware I've worked as a phone Domme and as an editor for a bondage website.

Augur -- I've also been a professional fortune-teller.

Date: 2012-02-27 10:24 am (UTC)
kayloulee: ST: TOS Spock in an orange jumpsuit like a beekeeper "I am a space beekeeper.I keep space bees" (Default)
From: [personal profile] kayloulee
Kill
Devour
Prognosticate
Prestigitate
Stalk
Wield
Exculpate

Date: 2012-02-28 06:39 am (UTC)
highlander_ii: Rupert Angier with arms extended, text 'Play to the crowd' ([Angier] play to the crowd)
From: [personal profile] highlander_ii
was this 'Prestigitate' meant to be 'Prestidigitate'? In which case, it would be greatly appreciated when applying as a magician, but likely, not so much otherwise. XD

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Date: 2012-02-27 10:48 am (UTC)
northern: "northern" written in gray text across a raven (Default)
From: [personal profile] northern
Vivisect.

Date: 2012-02-27 11:21 am (UTC)
nenya_kanadka: thin elegant black cartoon cat (42)
From: [personal profile] nenya_kanadka
Hypnotise
Coagulate
Eternally damn
Pester

Date: 2012-02-27 02:42 pm (UTC)
zingerella: Capital letter "Z" decorated with twining blue and purple vegetation (Default)
From: [personal profile] zingerella
I actually do use "pester" in cover letters: I'm a project manager, and a major part of my job is pestering people so charmingly that they don't feel pestered, in order to get them to give me their stuff by the deadlines to which they agreed in the first place.

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Date: 2012-02-27 11:40 am (UTC)
ell: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ell
Skeletonize.
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