Neuro Linquistic Programming (NLP) puts great stock in paying attention to how many snarl words clutter our vocabulary. The theory being, replace snarl words with purr words and thereby improve one's outlook on life.
Qoheleth never got the memo. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is a list of the snarl words in Ecclesiastes. Read 'em and weep.
1.
affliction
2.
afraid
3.
afraid of heights
4.
alone
5.
anger
6.
angry
7.
anxiety
8.
anxious striving
9.
appetite never satisfied
10.
bad
11.
bad smell
12.
bitten by a snake
13.
bitter
14.
breaks
15.
bribe
16.
broken
17.
burden
18.
cannot enjoy
19.
cannot understand
20.
cares
21.
caught in a cruel net
22.
chains
23.
chance
24.
chasing after the wind
25.
contend
26.
corrupts
27.
crackling of thorns
28.
crime
29.
crooked
30.
curse
31.
cursing
32.
danger
33.
days of darkness
34.
days of trouble
35.
dead flies
36.
death
37.
depriving
38.
desire no longer stirred
39.
despair
40.
despised
41.
destroy
42.
die
43.
dim
44.
disaster
45.
do not know the way to town
46.
drag
47.
drunkenness
48.
dust
49.
endangered
50.
ensnare
51.
envy
52.
error
53.
evil
54.
extortion
55.
fail to enjoy his prosperity
56.
faint
57.
fall
58.
fall unexpectedly
59.
fate
60.
fear
61.
few and meaningless days
62.
folly
63.
forgotten
64.
frustration
65.
goads
66.
great misfortune
67.
grief
68.
grievous evil
69.
grinders cease
70.
harm
71.
hate
72.
heavy burden
73.
house
leaks
74.
idle hands
75.
injured
76.
injustice
77.
jealousy
78.
judgment
79.
know nothing
80.
lack sense
81.
laziness
82.
madness of folly
83.
meaningless
84.
miserable
85.
misery
86.
misfortune
87.
mistake
88.
mourning
89.
never satisfied
90.
no comforter
91.
no further reward
92.
no longer heeded
93.
no one can discover
94.
no one knows what is coming
95.
no one to help
96.
no pleasure
97.
no rest
98.
no sleep
99.
not content
100.
not finding
101.
not go well
102.
not plant
103.
not reap
104.
nothing gained
105.
offenses
106.
oppressed
107.
oppression
108.
overpowered
109.
pain
110.
perishing
111.
pit
112.
pity
113.
poor
114.
poverty
115.
prison
116.
protest
117.
provoked
118.
rafters sag
119.
realm of the dead
120.
rebuke
121.
revile
122.
rights denied
123.
ruin
124.
sad face
125.
schemes to do wrong
126.
severed
127.
shadow
128.
shattered
129.
shouts
130.
siege works
131.
sin
132.
sinful
133.
sinner
134.
slaves
135.
snake bites
136.
snare
137.
sorrow
138.
stoop
139.
stupid
140.
stupidity of wickedness
141.
taken in a snare
142.
tears
143.
times are bad
144.
toil
145.
toil of fools
146.
toilsome labor
147.
trap
148.
trapped by evil times
149.
tremble
150.
troubles of your body
151.
unclean
152.
warning
153.
weapons
of war
154.
wearisome
155.
weighs heavily
156.
wicked
157.
wicked madness
158.
wickedness
159.
without meaning
160.
woe
161.
wrong
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