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The word I dislike most is the barbarous neologism "proactive." It seems to have been coined by analogy with "reactive." We can get along very well without it.
My first runner-up is "closure." This annoying bit of psychobabble has infected ordinary speech so that I now turn on the radio and hear about "road closures."
I also dislike the pathetic euphemism "pass away." We are all going to die. We can't change that by refusing to use the verb. Grow up!
I conclude with an illustration of verbal garbage we can do without:
O.J. Simpson needed closure so he took proactive measures to cause his ex-wife to pass away.
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