Viewing Writer's Workbench Word Lists
Writer's Workbench uses word lists to calculate the ratios of Vague, Abstract, Diction Problems, Negative, Transitions, and Introductory Elements in a document. These lists can be viewed by clicking on the Writer's Workbench Help
or 
button and selecting the Word Lists at the end of the index on the left.
A small sample of each of the word lists -
List of Vague Words: (total of 171 words and phrases)
| a lot | advantage | adventure | all | amount | anything | anytime |
| appearance | area | aspect | attitude | attractive | background | bad |
| beautiful | beauty | beneficial | benefit | bizarre | broad | certain |
| character | clear | community | considerable | creative | critical | deal with |
| deals with | deal | definite | difference | difficulty | disadvantage | earliest |
List of Abstract Words: (total of 314 words)
| abasement | abbess | aberration | ability | achieve | actual | adage |
| admire | advanced | advantage | adversity | advise | affect | afterlife |
| agreement | allegory | allow | American | amount | analyze | answer |
| aptitude | arbiter | array | assume | attitude | attribute | average |
| baffle | banality | belief | believe | benefit | betray | blandness |
List of Words and Phrases Flagged in Diction Alerts: (total of ~1400 words and phrases)
| a contact | a great deal of | a large number of | a lot | a must |
| a number of | a preference for | a small number of | abovementioned | absolutely |
| accomplished | aching void | acid test | activate | actual |
| add the point that | added increment | adequate enough | advantageous | advent |
| afford an opportunity | after all has been said | after the manner of | aggregate | all in all |
List of Words to Check: (total of 873 words)
| a while | awhile | accept | except | adapt | adept | adopt |
| advice | advise | affect | effect | aggravate | aid | aide |
| aisle | isle | alley | ally | already | allright | alright |
| altogether | allot | altar | alter | most | among | amount |
| ant | aunt | anxious | anymore | anybody | any body | anyone |
List of Negative Words: (total of 803 words)
| aren't | couldn't | didn't | don't | except | haven't | immature |
| immeasurable | immeasurably | immoderate | immodest | immoral | immortal | immovable |
| immutable | impartial | impassable | impatient | impatiently | impeccable | impenetrable |
| imperceptible | imperceptibly | imperfect | imperfectly | imperishable | impersonal | impersonalized |
| impersonally | impertinent | imperturbable | impervious | impious | implacable | implausibly |
List of Transitional Words and Phrases: (total of 232 words and phrases)
| Accordingly | afterward | although | As | as a result |
| as already stated | as well as | at the same time | because | both |
| But | by the same token | consequently | conversely | finally |
| First | for all that | for example | for this reason | furthermore |
| Hence | however | in brief | in comparison | in conclusion |
List of Introductory Elements: (total of 148 words and phrases)
| Above | Absolutely | Accordingly | Across | After |
| Afterward | Afterwards | Against | Along | Also |
| Although | Among | Anyway | Around | As |
| At | Back | Because | Before | Behind |
| Beside | Besides | Between | By | Certainly |
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