Writers’ Dash: November 2017
Morning Dash 1. Kedge 2. It is dark at the foot of a lighthouse. 3. A wise man is never...
Writers’ Dash: November 2017
Morning Dash
| 1. | Kedge | 2. | It is dark at the foot of a lighthouse. | 3. | A wise man is never less alone than when alone. | 4. | Bridge | 5. | Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. |
| 6. | Kludge | 7. | A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed. | 8. | Trust not one night’s ice. | 9. | Fudge | 10. | The good seaman is known in bad weather. |
| 11. | Midge | 12. | A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. | 13. | The future ain’t what it used to be. | 14. | Fledge | 15. | Speech sows, silence reaps. |
| 16. | Sludge | 17. | The art of being a parent is sleeping when the baby isn’t looking. | 18. | A bad workman quarrels with his tools. | 19. | Badger | 20. | You can’t unscramble scrambled eggs. |
| 21. | Budge | 22. | Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. | 23. | Too much politeness is impertinent. (Japanese proverb) | 24. | Badge | 25. | Fire is a good servant but a bad master. |
| 26. | Cudgel | 27. | A slice off a cut loaf isn’t missed. | 28. | A traveler may lie with authority. | 29. | Nudge | 30. | He who controls his tongue saves his head. |
| 31. | Midget |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Don’t take down a fence unless you are sure why it was put up. | 2. | The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. | 3. | Smudge | 4. | The morning knows more than the evening. | 5. | Dredge |
| 6. | Books and friends should be few and good. | 7. | If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. | 8. | Budget | 9. | God sends meat, but the devil sends cooks. | 10. | Sledge |
| 11. | If you are not a fish, how can you know whether the fish are happy? (Chinese proverb) | 12. | He that would learn to pray, let him go to sea. | 13. | Pledge | 14. | Money has no smell. (Roman emperor’s son objected to a tax on public lavatories. His father asked him to sniff a coin collected from the tax and forced him to admit the coin had no offensive odor.) | 15. | Wedge |
| 16. | A blind man’s wife needs no paint. | 17. | Doge (Pronounced like “dodge” but with a long “o”. The doge was neither a duke in the modern sense, nor the equivalent of a hereditary duke. The title “doge” was the title of the senior-most elected official of Venice and Genoa; both cities were republics and elected doges.) | 18. | Lodge | 19. | Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. | 20. | Stodge |
| 21. | Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away. | 22. | Love your enemy, but don’t put a gun in his hand. | 23. | Gauge | 24. | The devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers. | 25. | Codger |
| 26. | A good deed dies when it is spoken about. (Arabian proverb) | 27. | Edge | 28. | The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar’s skirts. (Wicked people may operate among good people in order to enact their schemes.) | 29. | Dodge | 30. | A jackass can kick a barn door down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. |
| 31. | An ape’s an ape, a varlet’s a varlet, though they be clad in silk or scarlet. |
Prompts courtesy of Edmund Broek.
Writers’ Dash: October 2017
Morning Dash
| 1. | Ambidextrous | 2. | Archaic | 3. | Brusque | 4. | Cavern | 5. | Deleterious |
| 6. | Enigmatic | 7. | Figurative | 8. | Grapple | 9. | Hypnosis | 10. | Idyll |
| 11. | Intrepid | 12. | Island | 13. | Jealousy | 14. | Key | 15. | Languid |
| 16. | Macabre | 17. | Nascent | 18. | Onerous | 19. | Pundit | 20. | Symbiosis |
| 21. | Ruthless | 22. | Tangle | 23. | Tyranny | 24. | Unctuous | 25. | Valerian |
| 26. | Venerate | 27. | Wistful | 28. | Xerotic | 29. | Youth | 30. | Zen |
| 31. | Money |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Dance | 2. | Shake | 3. | Filthy | 4. | Glasses | 5. | Approach |
| 6. | Cool | 7. | Knife | 8. | Duck | 9. | Queen | 10. | Blame |
| 11. | Rampant | 12. | Cap | 13. | Feed | 14. | High | 15. | Fish |
| 16. | Dodge | 17. | Power | 18. | Alarm | 19. | Delicious | 20. | Moonlight |
| 21. | Baffle | 22. | Skinny | 23. | Tongue | 24. | Assist | 25. | Disgust |
| 26. | Creepy | 27. | Scream | 28. | Delude | 29. | Glistening | 30. | Pipe |
| 31. | Cheat |
Prompts courtesy of Mireille.
Writers’ Dash: September 2017
Morning Dash
| 1. | Incunabula | 2. | Genesis | 3. | Inchoate | 4. | Inception | 5. | Recrudescence |
| 6. | Exordium | 7. | Commencement | 8. | Ab ovo | 9. | Nascent | 10. | Logophile |
| 11. | Demonym | 12. | Sesquipedalian | 13. | Accismus | 14. | Verbicide | 15. | Dysphemism |
| 16. | Litotes | 17. | Eponym | 18. | Parapraxis | 19. | Spoonerism | 20. | Solecism |
| 21. | Malapropism | 22. | Mumpsimus | 23. | Faux pas | 24. | Cacology | 25. | Alpenglow |
| 26. | Dayglow | 27. | Apricate | 28. | Rizzar | 29. | Turnsole | 30. | Engild |
| 31. |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Apollonian | 2. | Heliolatry | 3. | Midnight Sun | 4. | Aeolian | 5. | Zephyr |
| 6. | Favonian | 7. | Boreal | 8. | Subventaneous | 9. | Harmattan | 10. | Squall |
| 11. | Flabile | 12. | Mistral | 13. | Fathom | 14. | Chockablock | 15. | Flotsam |
| 16. | Groggy | 17. | Bumpkin | 18. | Sea dog | 19. | Landlubber | 20. | Moonraker |
| 21. | Scuttlebutt | 22. | Lollapalooza | 23. | Sockdolager | 24. | Catawampus | 25. | Hornswoggle |
| 26. | Foofaraw | 27. | Discombobulate | 28. | Bumptious | 29. | Qi | 30. | Faqir |
| 31. |
Prompts courtesy of Savage Taurus.
Writers’ Dash: July 2017
Morning Dash
| 1. | Fish | 2. | Bait | 3. | Small | 4. | Moonlight | 5. | Offend |
| 6. | Vivacious | 7. | Wax | 8. | Resist | 9. | Broom | 10. | Insult |
| 11. | Misty | 12. | Athlete | 13. | Flood | 14. | Fat | 15. | Mouse |
| 16. | Plan | 17. | Watch | 18. | Pursue | 19. | High | 20. | Shoes |
| 21. | Court | 22. | Repulsive | 23. | Heaven | 24. | Overlook | 25. | Water |
| 26. | Educate | 27. | Acidic | 28. | Nuts | 29. | Direct | 30. | Massive |
| 31. | Planet |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Scold | 2. | Necklace | 3. | Tempt | 4. | Furious | 5. | Beer |
| 6. | Tickle | 7. | Juicy | 8. | Tree | 9. | Accept | 10. | Coffee |
| 11. | Chastise | 12. | Noisy | 13. | Battle | 14. | Surprise | 15. | Low |
| 16. | Doll | 17. | Assist | 18. | Attic | 19. | Shake | 20. | Short |
| 21. | Gift | 22. | Dodge | 23. | Misty | 24. | Bucket | 25. | Manipulate |
| 26. | Spaghetti | 27. | Spoil | 28. | Cold | 29. | Wind | 30. | Invite |
| 31. | Shadow |
Prompts courtesy of Doyle Slen.
Writers’ Dash: June 2017
Morning Dash
| 1. | Recondite | 2. | Didactic | 3. | Puissant | 4. | Yummy | 5. | Sleet |
| 6. | Quixotic | 7. | Knotty | 8. | Blue-eyed | 9. | Testy | 10. | Scrawny |
| 11. | Obsequious | 12. | Ratty | 13. | Buzz | 14. | Unwritten | 15. | Undulate |
| 16. | Glitter | 17. | Scandalous | 18. | Vessel | 19. | Periodic | 20. | Lamentable |
| 21. | Juvenile | 22. | Ruddy | 23. | Adamant | 24. | Oatmeal | 25. | Reflective |
| 26. | Waggish | 27. | Vacuous | 28. | Onerous | 29. | Nutritious | 30. | Dime |
Evening Dash
| 1. | Coherent | 2. | Ambiguous | 3. | License | 4. | Myrmidon | 5. | Flaky |
| 6. | Irritate | 7. | Debonair | 8. | Ambivalent | 9. | Gruesome | 10. | Vagabond |
| 11. | Non-committal | 12. | Decorous | 13. | Highfaluting | 14. | Unkempt | 15. | Reproduce |
| 16. | Acid | 17. | Smog | 18. | Feigned | 19. | Juicy | 20. | Incandescent |
| 21. | Evasive | 22. | Parsimonious | 23. | Abaft | 24. | Gratis | 25. | Skip |
| 26. | Rambunctious | 27. | Nondescript | 28. | Giant | 29. | Potato | 30. | Polish |
Prompts courtesy of Nathaniel (BenBold)
Writers’ Dash: October 2017
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Writers’ Dash: September 2017
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Writers’ Dash: June 2017
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