Skud is catching up on business correspondance

[commodorified]

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

Comments

[recessional]

Excoriate.

[epershand]

Capitulate
Appropriate
Throw [under the bus]
Complicate
Decelerate
Concede

[azurelunatic]

Levitate.

[kd5mdk]

Polandate.

[commodorified]

Eviscerate

[girlpearl]

Well now, some of us can make a legitimate claim on that one.

[fairestcat]

Conceal
Rescind
Remonstrate
Fling
Thrust
Shovel

[commodorified]

Sodomise
Decimate

[commodorified]

congeal
entrap
delude

[azurelunatic]

Fist.

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

[thorfinn]

Deliquesce.
Discombobulate.
Disembowel.
Deny.
Deliverate.

My brain is stuck on D, apparently.

[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.

[denise]

Explode.

[azurelunatic]

Incinerate.
Devastate. (Can be abbreviated to "dev" at need.)
Uninstall.
Erase.
Infect.

[azurelunatic]

Contaminate.
Interrupt.
Backpedal.
Flee.
Ignite.
Erupt.

[dorothean]

Exorcise, inseminate, transubstantiate, decorticate, macerate, impale.

[automaticdoor]

Hey, if you were applying to be a priest, exorcising and transubstantiating would be perfectly fine!

[automaticdoor]

Shred.
Destroy.
Manipulate.

Boyfriend suggests: obfuscate.

(We are obviously law students.)

[chickenfeet]

boyfriend obviously does not aspire to a position in the Civil Service

[thorfinn]

Also, do not abbrev. Analyst Programmer to four letters per word. Unless applying for jobs at NSFW organisations.

[inoru_no_hoshi]

LOL IRL!

[azurelunatic]

Neglect.
Forget.
Squash.
Shiv.
Catapult.

[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.

[azurelunatic]

Weep.
Intimidate.
Interrogate.
Accidentally.
Needle.
Break.
Hijack.
Commandeer.
Besiege.

[oursin]

Marmolise

[oursin]

Absquatulate

Problematise

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

Cauterise

Amputate

[commodorified]

Suppress
Extort
Coerce

[emceeaich]

Imminentize (possibly okay if applying for positions with security clearances)

Twisted slightly

[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.

[kayloulee]

Kill
Devour
Prognosticate
Prestigitate
Stalk
Wield
Exculpate

[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

[northern]

Vivisect.

[nenya_kanadka]

Hypnotise
Coagulate
Eternally damn
Pester

[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.

[ell]

Skeletonize.