Writers’ Dash: July 2018
1. | Dichotomy | 2. | Alabaster | 3. | Creosote | 4. | Homage | 5. | Fisticuffs |
6. | Herculean | 7. | Cyborg | 8. | Kinetic | 9. | Distill | 10. | Ferment |
11. | Brew | 12. | Castigate | 13. | Diaspora | 14. | Jive | 15. | Jargon |
16. | Ledger | 17. | Putlogs | 18. | Pistil | 19. | Commensurate | 20. | Stamen |
21. | Laminate | 22. | Delegate | 23. | Indefatigable | 24. | Karma | 25. | Distemper |
26. | Preclude | 27. | Gastronomy | 28. | Stanza | 29. | Calorie | 30. | Sober |
31. | Drunk |
Prompts courtesy of Roberrt Magne.
Writers’ Dash: June 2018
1. | Compute | 2. | Miserly | 3. | Fussbudget | 4. | Luminous | 5. | Antithesis |
6. | Adore | 7. | Farceur | 8. | Elapse | 9. | Undercover | 10. | Quaver |
11. | Capsize | 12. | Loathe | 13. | Pearl | 14. | Sear | 15. | Hornswoggle |
16. | Impudent | 17. | Peel | 18. | Sitar | 19. | Embarrassed | 20. | Industrious |
21. | Ageless | 22. | Creep | 23. | Extrapolate | 24. | Half-assed | 25. | Weirdo |
26. | Fettle | 27. | Prospect | 28. | Metropolitan | 29. | Sovereign | 30. | Woolly |
31. |
Prompts courtesy of Raina Anatra.
Writers’ Dash: May 2018
1. | Arithmancy | 2. | Smaragdine | 3. | Esoterica | 4. | Coterminous | 5. | Eventide |
6. | Nescient | 7. | Gigglemug | 8. | Luddite | 9. | Paracosm | 10. | Bodacious |
11. | Anoesis | 12. | Rambunctious | 13. | Purloin | 14. | Moggy | 15. | Digress |
16. | Selkie | 17. | Gorgonize | 18. | Chimerical | 19. | Blatherskite | 20. | Divagate |
21. | Memoriter | 22. | Refactory | 23. | Circumlocution | 24. | Sardonic | 25. | Wheedle |
26. | Confluence | 27. | Puissant | 28. | Notabilia | 29. | Cirque | 30. | Trothplight |
31. | Obsequious |
Prompts courtesy of Savage Taurus.
Writers’ Dash: April 2018
1. | Preternatural | 2. | Pissant | 3. | Malfeasance | 4. | Enormity | 5. | Umbra |
6. | Humble pie | 7. | Fenestrated | 8. | Feng shui | 9. | Cucumber | 10. | Cucurbit |
11. | Cud | 12. | Condense | 13. | Fernery | 14. | Quilt | 15. | Certitude |
16. | Probity | 17. | Whoopee or whoopie | 18. | Planter | 19. | Plantigrade | 20. | Mondegreen |
21. | Newt | 22. | Listicle | 23. | Litany | 24. | Cerebrate | 25. | Ampersand |
26. | Helter-skelter | 27. | Heirloom | 28. | Intenerate | 29. | Intendment | 30. | Rapacious |
31. |
Prompts courtesy of BB.
Writers’ Dash: March 2018
Morning Dash
1. | Hyetal | 2. | Mores | 3. | Epigrammatic | 4. | Thewless | 5. | Glissade |
6. | Objurgate | 7. | Madeleine | 8. | Berceuse | 9. | Naissance | 10. | Lenity |
11. | Cerebrate | 12. | Moxie | 13. | Oblivescence | 14. | Epistemic | 15. | Sisyphean |
16. | Quodlibet/td> | 17. | Maladroit | 18. | Vulnerary | 19. | Vatic | 20. | Pseud |
21. | Suspiration | 22. | Bedizen | 23. | Pinguid | 24. | Flocculent | 25. | Bagatelle |
26. | Dundrearies | 27. | Gleek | 28. | Gerontocracy | 29. | Nostrum | 30. | Torporific |
31. | Macaronic |
Evening Dash
1. | Claque | 2. | Atemporal | 3. | Musette | 4. | Guisard | 5. | Aerie |
6. | Tittle | 7. | Sinecure | 8. | Fossick | 9. | Serotinal | 10. | Ruth |
11. | Paludal | 12. | Ululate | 13. | Mussitation | 14. | Lickspittle | 15. | Cannikin |
16. | Sui generis | 17. | Sibylline | 18. | Aegis | 19. | Serendipity | 20. | Puffery |
21. | Sophistry | 22. | Incogitant | 23. | Anoesis | 24. | Litotes | 25. | Peripatetic |
26. | Ultracrepidarian | 27. | Coruscant | 28. | Minatory | 29. | Perfidious | 30. | Lacuna |
31. | Rebarbative |
Prompts courtesy of Nathaniel (BenBold).
Writers’ Dash: February 2018
Morning Dash
1. | Hone | 2. | Proclaim | 3. | Ungulate | 4. | Defenestrate | 5. | Teeming |
6. | Mellifluous | 7. | Constant | 8. | Odometer | 9. | Purloin | 10. | Ensnare |
11. | Ketosis | 12. | Blandishment | 13. | Bundle | 14. | Horizon | 15. | Lament |
16. | Stone | 17. | Chiller | 18. | Macabre | 19. | Visitor | 20. | Diminish |
21. | Moue | 22. | Keepsake | 23. | Verbigeration | 24. | Crepuscular | 25. | Scour |
26. | Penetralia | 27. | Legerdemain | 28. | Abderian | 29. | 30. | ||
31. |
Evening Dash
1. | Chary | 2. | Impassable | 3. | Commensurate | 4. | Prone | 5. | Temptation |
6. | Appropriate | 7. | Sericeous | 8. | Reclaim | 9. | Cater | 10. | Feasible |
11. | Adverse | 12. | Uproot | 13. | Parse | 14. | Hexadecimals | 15. | Outpace |
16. | Chironomid | 17. | Aubergine | 18. | Subordinate | 19. | Transition | 20. | Viable |
21. | Caravan | 22. | Conjure | 23. | Quaternion | 24. | Fester | 25. | Loyalist |
26. | Sophrosyne | 27. | Uhtceare | 28. | Mesonoxian | 29. | 30. | ||
31. |
Prompts courtesy of Laraa Short.
Writers’ Dash: January 2018
Morning Dash
1. | Popcorn | 2. | Tease | 3. | Deep | 4. | Worm | 5. | Satisfy |
6. | Square | 7. | Dice | 8. | Support | 9. | Doll | 10. | Dare |
11. | Unkempt | 12. | Spaghetti | 13. | Distress | 14. | Spicy | 15. | Cheese |
16. | Beguile | 17. | Pipe | 18. | Goad | 19. | Quirky | 20. | Scream |
21. | Offend | 22. | Enormous | 23. | Money | 24. | Charm | 25. | Pasta |
26. | Force | 27. | Exuberant | 28. | Knife | 29. | Scrutinise | 30. | Purring |
31. | Castle |
Evening Dash
1. | Confuse | 2. | Cockroach | 3. | Pursue | 4. | Cold | 5. | Nuts |
6. | Endure | 7. | Petite | 8. | Tree | 9. | Evaluate | 10. | Dance |
11. | Beg | 12. | Nimble | 13. | Poster | 14. | Elevate | 15. | Calm |
16. | Strawberry | 17. | Promote | 18. | Explosion | 19. | Patronise | 20. | Delirious |
21. | Summer | 22. | Feed | 23. | Greasy | 24. | Wax | 25. | Discredit |
26. | Attic | 27. | Spoil | 28. | Bitter | 29. | Butterfly | 30. | Soothe |
31. | Fabulous |
Prompts courtesy of Doyle Slen.
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.