Overused and/or weak words

     Some words appear only as past tense, but present tense of those words are also intended to be included.  I am not implying that these words are always overused and/or weak, just that they can be.  These strike me as the most common to be "mistreated".

• almost
• and
• anyway
• appeared
• because
• began
• but
• came
• could
• even
• felt
• few
• got
• had
• have been
• heard
• is
• just
• like
• looked
• moved
• nearly
• nodded
• only
• quite
• rather
• really
• seemed
• should
• shrugged
• slightly
• so
• some
• spun
• started
• stuff
• suddenly
• that
• that - when you mean who
• then
• thing
• turned
• very
• walked
• was
• went  
• were
• would