words

words I am thoroughly sick of:
1. characterise (appears 15 times)
2. investigate (9)
3. measure (15)
4. determine (22)
5. identify (35)
6. assay (20)
7. mechanism (10)
8. production (59 - almost 1% of the total word count!)
9. activation (15)
10. regulation (12)

words I'd like to have used:
1. elucidate
2. nevertheless
3. cascade
4. particularly
5. conversely
6. respectively
7. serendipitously
8. recapitulate
9. contradistinction
10. a word that means the opposite of serendipitously