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

[kd5mdk]

Polandate.

[commodorified]

Eviscerate

[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.

[denise]

Explode.

[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.

[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.

[thorfinn]

Was this before or after having reading a certain novel? :-)

[azurelunatic]

Slightly before, as I directly insisted that he borrow my copy.

[automaticdoor]

Shred.
Destroy.
Manipulate.

Boyfriend suggests: obfuscate.

(We are obviously law students.)

[automaticdoor]

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

[thorfinn]

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

[thorfinn]

That is hilarious. :-)

[inoru_no_hoshi]

LOL IRL!

[azurelunatic]

Neglect.
Forget.
Squash.
Shiv.
Catapult.

[dorothean]

I think that technically God is supposed to be doing those things through the priest, though, so on a resume one might say

* Enabled sacraments
* Acted as instrument for exorcism

[automaticdoor]

That is true! Good call.

Action verbs to avoid on THAT CV

[commodorified]

"Reposess"