Date:         Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:12:43 -0600
From: ctb <conan@PCISYS.NET>
Organization: barbaric writers
Subject:      Re: FILLER: Looking for some Exercises...

Indigo wrote:
>   If you have any exercises that you know of ... and would be
> willing to share 'em, please send them to me!

Okay here's one:
Purpose: to stretch your ability to use words in new ways.
Exercise: Write a sentence describing something, such as rain, a sight,
scent, a sound, a taste, a face, a hand, a sunset, a house, a desk, an
animal ... or whatever else you would like to describe, but for each
sentence, you must use the unusual word assigned.  You may use the word
in any tense or form you like, for example, "twist" may be changed to
"twisted" or "twisting," etc.:
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Sentence 1:
describe something, and include the word:
congeal
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Sentence 2:
describe something, and include the word:
antagonize
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Sentence 3:
describe something, and include the word:
winter
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Sentence 4:
describe something, and include the word:
amorphous
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Sentence 5:
describe something, and include the word:
wept
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Sentence 6:
describe something, and include the word:
gravity
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Sentence 7:
describe something, and include the word:
burst
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Sentence 8:
describe something, and include the word:
feral
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Sentence 9:
describe something, and include the word:
scratch
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Sentence 10:
describe something, and include the word:
defiance
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