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A Silicon Valley vocabulary is like a litterbox: if you don't clean it out now and then, it gets clumped up stinks up the house. Here are three words to drop this minute:

Relevant: I remember hearing this a million times in church youth group. It works about as well for your company's niche content as it did for the book of Leviticus.

Action item: You mean "task"? Lay off the productivity blogs, hombre.

Leverage: You were on thin ice back when that was just a noun. As a verb? Don't make us leverage your jaw shut.

Feel better without those words? Now you have room to add one!

E-gnore: To disregard e-mails, texts, and IMs. You can do it for about one week with acquaintances, two days with close contacts and still escape with an apology.