Most everyone knows gobbledygook means overly complicated or unintelligible language but how many know that it was coined by a US senator to criticize convoluted language used on government documents? Next word up is dragooned, meaning being forced/pressured into something against your will...most of us know that feeling. Next up is boondoggle which started out as the name for the braided lanyard made by boy scouts but morphed into meaning a waste of time or money during the 1930s by critics of the New Deal.
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