diff --git a/app/pickle_idea2.py b/app/pickle_idea2.py
index 0da55bc..b5716bf 100644
--- a/app/pickle_idea2.py
+++ b/app/pickle_idea2.py
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ def load_record(pickle_fname):
 
 def save_frequency_to_pickle(d, pickle_fname):
     f = open(pickle_fname, 'wb')
-    exclusion_lst = ['one', 'no', 'has', 'had', 'do', 'that', 'have', 'by', 'not', 'but', 'we', 'this', 'my', 'him', 'so', 'or', 'as', 'are', 'it', 'from', 'with', 'be', 'can', 'for', 'an', 'if', 'who', 'whom', 'whose', 'which', 'the', 'to', 'a', 'of', 'and', 'you', 'i', 'he', 'she', 'they', 'me', 'was', 'were', 'is', 'in', 'at', 'on', 'their', 'his', 'her', 's', 'said', 'all', 'did', 'been', 'w']
     d2 = {}
     for k in d:
         if not k in exclusion_lst and not k.isnumeric() and not len(k) < 2:
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ def save_frequency_to_pickle(d, pickle_fname):
     f.close()
 
 
+exclusion_lst = ['one', 'no', 'has', 'had', 'do', 'that', 'have', 'by', 'not', 'but', 'we', 'this', 'my', 'him', 'so', 'or', 'as', 'are', 'it', 'from', 'with', 'be', 'can', 'for', 'an', 'if', 'who', 'whom', 'whose', 'which', 'the', 'to', 'a', 'of', 'and', 'you', 'i', 'he', 'she', 'they', 'me', 'was', 'were', 'is', 'in', 'at', 'on', 'their', 'his', 'her', 's', 'said', 'all', 'did', 'been', 'w']
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
diff --git a/app/user_service.py b/app/user_service.py
index 27323b8..24e8998 100644
--- a/app/user_service.py
+++ b/app/user_service.py
@@ -178,14 +178,17 @@ def user_mark_word(username):
         d = load_freq_history(user_freq_record)
         lst_history = pickle_idea2.dict2lst(d)
         lst = []
+        lst2 = []
         for word in request.form.getlist('marked'):
-            lst.append((word, [get_time()]))
+            if not word in pickle_idea2.exclusion_lst:
+                lst.append((word, [get_time()]))
+                lst2.append(word)
         d = pickle_idea2.merge_frequency(lst, lst_history)
         if len(lst_history) > 999:
             flash('You have way too many words in your difficult-words book. Delete some first.')
         else:
             pickle_idea2.save_frequency_to_pickle(d, user_freq_record)
-            flash('Added %s.' % (', '.join(request.form.getlist('marked'))))
+            flash('Added %s.' % ', '.join(lst2))
         return redirect(url_for('user_bp.userpage', username=username))
     else:
         return 'Under construction'