Collins Improve Your Writing Skills. Graham King

      actual facts (and its cousin, true facts)

       added bonus/extra

       adequate/sufficient enough

       a downward plunge

       advance warning

       appear on the scene

       arid desert

       attach together

       audible click

      burn down, burnt up (burn and burnt by themselves are usually better)

       circle round, around

       collaborate together

       connect together

      consensus of opinion (it’s simply consensus)

       couple together

       crisis situation

       divide it up, divide off

       each and every one

       early beginnings

       eat up

       enclosed herewith, enclosed herein

       end result

       file away

       final completion

       final upshot

       follow after

       forward planning

       free gift

       funeral obsequies

       future prospects

       gather together

       gale force winds

       general consensus

       grateful thanks

      Have got (a common one, this. Simply have is fine)

      the hoi polloi (as hoi means ‘the’, the is obviously redundant)

       hoist up

       hurry up

       important essentials

       in between

       inside of

       indirect allusion

      I saw it with my own eyes (who else’s?)

       join together

       joint cooperation

       just recently

       lend out

       link together

       lonely isolation

       meet together

       merge together

       mix together, mix things together

       more preferable

       mutual cooperation

       necessary requisite

       new beginner, new beginning

       new creation

       new innovation, new invention

       original source

       other alternative

       outside of

      over with (for ended, finished)

       pair of twins

       past history

       penetrate into

       personal friend

       polish up

       proceed onward

      raze to the ground (raze by itself means exactly that)

       really excellent

       recall back

       reduce down

       refer back

       relic of the past

       renew again

       repeat again

       revert back

       rise up

       safe haven

       seldom ever

       set a new world record

       settle up

       sink down

       still continue

       sufficient enough

       swallow down

       this day and age

       totally complete

       totally finished

       tiny little child

      unique means the only one of its kind. You can’t get much more unique than that.

      Not even quite unique, absolutely unique and utterly unique

       unexpected surprise

       unite together

       unjustly persecuted

       usual habit

       very pregnant

       viable alternative

      warm 75 degrees (of course 75 degrees is warm!)

       whether or not

       widow woman

      There are other forms of repetition, some intentional and some not. Writers have often used it for effect, for example in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

       Alone, alone, all, all alone,

       Alone on a wide wide sea!

      Or in this equally famous passage from a speech of Winston Churchill’s:

       We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength