Prompt 3: Dust off the dictionary on your shelf and randomly pick out 10 words. Don't look at the meanings but write them on a separate paper. Write creative meanings for each word. What do you think they should mean? What do they make you think of?
Since I don't own a dictionary except my good ol' dictionary.com online, I'm going to pull out the next best thing: The Norton Shakespeare. I'm sure there are plenty of interesting Shakespearean slang at random in there.
apish - (adj.) refers to the "ape-like" features of a human or object. Mr. Hyde had an apish quality, scrambling with a shuffled walk, his hairy arms swinging with the motion of his stride.
suborn - (n.) a person born beneath the required status of royalty. Aladdin was a suborn; he could never dream of marrying someone so high born as Jasmine.
lackey - (v.) without. Me lackey food. Me hungry.
Welkin - (n.) a little person from the town of Welk. The Welkin could not reach the book that sat on the top of a five foot shelf.
gramercy - (n.) poor grammar. Dr. Smith thought there was a correlation in children who were abused and their use of gramercy.
sonties - (n.) soggy panties. "Ring your sonties out young lady. No need to overreact about this."
hearsed - (v.) to hearse: to be killed, placed in a coffin, and shipped to the funeral home. "Boy, I'm gonna down right hearse you if you don't shut that trap!"
underprop - (n.) a prop that is used underneath an actor to give them height. Billy was small for his age and he had to use an underprop so he would appear taller than the supporting actress in the school play.
cog - (n.) a mechanical gear. The would not keep time because it was missing a cog.
embar - (n.) a granola bar enriched with vitamins and other assorted ingredients of nutrients like spinach, kale, carrots, protein, etc. Embar: the new and tasty One-a-Day replacement.
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