\t\t\t\tFine. Excellent. Well done. Going just right. Swell. *Snore.*<\/p>\n
How\u00a0wistfully\u00a0do we tread through life, looking for better adjectives to battle-harden our vocabulary, and how often do we …<\/p>\n
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…\u00a0fall back on the word “great” or “swell” or “fine.” How GREAT is the word great, really? Just as great as it sounds. (Great just really grates on me because I use it waaaaaaay too much.)<\/p>\n
How about c-o-p-a-c-e-t-i-c. OOOOoooo, now that’s a word for any “great”\u00a0occasion.<\/p>\n
Co-pa-ce-tic<\/a>\/koh <\/strong>puh set ik\u00a0(slang adjective) very satisfactory, fine-and-dandy, going just right, excellent, everything in order.<\/p>\n The lady assured me I shouldn’t worry because the matter had been settled and everything was\u00a0copacetic. <\/em><\/p>\n Before I leave for a week, is everything copacetic? <\/em><\/p>\n The history of copacetic has been looked into in “great”\u00a0detail by the Copacetic Comics Company:\u00a0The History of Copacetic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fine. Excellent. Well done. Going just right. Swell. *Snore.* How\u00a0wistfully\u00a0do we tread through life, looking for better adjectives to battle-harden our vocabulary, and how often do we … Continue reading