In search of the perfect verb

It's amazing how long it can take to find the right verb. The verb that conveys the precise meaning and proper tone for the scene, yet is within your narrator's vocabulary. The verb that you didn't already use in the preceding sentence. The verb that doesn't create an undesirable rhyme or distracting alliteration with the words around it.

To make it even more maddening, that search is repeated in paragraph after paragraph, page after page.

Good times, my friends. Good times.