Yes. I think there are multiple scales to give words or pairs bonus points on: - there is also a moral outrage scale where you want at least one word to be on

Yes. I think there are multiple scales to give words or pairs bonus points on: - there is also a moral outrage scale where you want at least one word to be on (if one word of the pair was about sex and the other one was about the church, that would be great and funny). - then there is also a boringness scale (boring: "habitat", not boring: "shebang"), where you ideally want both words to score highly. - then there is also a understandability scale. "cholecystoduodenostomy" is a bad word because very few people know what it means. Lower this down until you understand all the words and the result will be much more satisfactory.