diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
index fe09e706..161ba653 100644
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -76,3 +76,12 @@ Microsoft.HeadingColons = NO
 # resolver"), never on an actual spelled-out percentage. A rule with no
 # observed true positive on this corpus isn't worth keeping enabled.
 Microsoft.Percentages = NO
+# Checked all 114 hits by hand, not sampled: every single one flags a
+# precise, normal technical/formal word from write-good's default
+# corporate-bloat wordlist ("validate", "monitor", "therefore",
+# "however", "multiple", ...), not an actual verbose phrase -- none of
+# the genuinely wordy multi-word bloat this rule exists to catch ("due
+# to the fact that", "in order to", "at the present time") appears even
+# once. Rewriting precise vocabulary into vaguer prose to satisfy a
+# dictionary mismatch would make the docs worse, not better.
+write-good.TooWordy = NO