Kevin's Watch

Joy wrote: MM, you got me with this one. Those were really hard words.

Sorry about that, Joy. At least I know now what a fard is.

prop
efflorescent
withe

To prop up his chances of subduing the Great Moronic Boar, Zeno used the powerful Horsedung plant. Tricked by the plant's efflorescent aroma, the Boar ate it and fell asleep. Using withe, Zeno tied up the beast and hauled it back to town, where he was given a hero's welcome.

hooey
miniskirt
nuclear

hooey miniskirt nuclear

Zeno was disappointed when the girl he most wanted to impress called his story a lot of hooey. He wanted to summon up his most impressive, most sincerely persuasive words, but was distracted by her leather miniskirt. It would have taken a nuclear blast to make him notice that the Great Moronic Boar, belying its name, was slithering from crate to crate out of the market square, trailing chewed fragments of withe.

[Word was absolutely determined not to let me type the word “withe”. It kept removing the ‘e’. Silly autocorrect.]

blocks
badinage
olfactory

blocks
badinage
olfactory

When he finally realized that his prized Boar had somehow escaped and was already several blocks away, Zeno excused himself from his girl friend and sprinted after the beast. Some of Zeno's friends had lined the street to shout their amusement, but he clearly was too busy to exchange clever badinage with them. Focusing his olfactory senses on the Boar's unique smell, Zeno once again hunted the beast, while mumbling promises about tying better knots next time.

milk
suzerain
cavity

milk suzerain cavity

Once again, the Great Moronic Boar was wreaking havoc over the countryside, curdling the milk of the stampeding cows, scattering the royal cattle herds. Zeno's suzerain, while not pleased with him for letting the Boar escape, called upon him once more, this time to end the beast's depredations for good. Zeno galloped energetically about the domain scattering branches of Horsedung plant, which the Boar watched meditatively from a cavity beneath a tree root in the hillside.

sandwich
alas
chartreuse

sandwich
alas
chartreuse

After a fruitless afternoon trying to seduce the Great and-apparently-not-so-Moronic Boar with Horsedung plant, the mighty Zeno decided to refuel his energy with soup and sandwich at his favorite local deli. Alas, just as Zeno was settling into his meal on the patio, the Boar charged out of a secret hiding spot and ambushed our hero, scattering him across the pavement. The deli's owner, fluttering in her chartreuse dress, ran out to help Zeno, while the Boar snorted in satisfaction and sauntered away.

(Joy, we have the makings of a Greek epic here. I'm laughing so hard it hurts.)

prayer
tic
fantasy

It's going to take me a while to decide if I can live up to that one. Great chain

prayer
tic
fantasy


Jendar would not apologize for the invocation he recited, he was a prayer and it is what he was born to do. This caused the anti- religon neophyte to develop a tic he could not control. Jendar had a fantasy that he could round up all the narrow minded of the world and zap them with his true insight.

cravat
rudimentary
electrodesiccation


JfJ

cravat rudimentary electrodesiccation

Just south of Cairo, an archaeologist tugged absently at his cravat. His career, as yet, was only rudimentary, but he had a plan. With the tubes from the radio, pieces of the cook’s sewing machine, and the soon-to-be-dead body of the contemptuous dig leader, the young archaeologist was going to use electrodesiccation to produce his own, hither-to undiscovered mummy.

triton
floriated
humbug

triton
floriated
humbug

After his terrifying ordeal in the cold depths of space, astronaut Dennis took up deep sea exploration - his first task, the location and capture of a particularly aggressive rare sub-species of triton. As Dennis meandered warily through the strange, unearthly plants and pale creatures of the ocean bed, his peripheral vision just caught a glimmer of movement in the region of a large, floriated mass to his left. Starting with alarm, flashbacks of the deep space underpant incident reeling before his eyes, Dennis quickly realised this movement was no hostile underwear creature, but a mere school of pentagonal albino fish, a revelation to which the explorer's response was a muttered "humbug!"

fastidious
coruscate
gnome

Well done, Cov!!

fastidious coruscate gnome

The professor was fastidious in his scepticisms that no fairies existed on the university campus. At that moment a part of his wall started to coruscate and make a sound like a thousand bees. Stepping out of this sparkling glow came a bearded gnome, who then began laughing at the shocked professor.

Cortisone
Fascism
Epistemology

Cortisone Fascism Epistemology

The centuries old historian rested a moment, waiting for the spinal and joint cortisone injections to take effect. Fascism, he decided with a wincing stretch, was the worst form of government he had personally witnessed, worse even than total anarchy. Feeling better, the ancient academe stood up, anxious to continue his latest meta-study: epistemology.

cardinal whetstone licentious

cardinal whetstone licentious

There is one cardinal rule for the rockhound who is feeling frisky. The “h” in “whetstone” is there for your protection. Don’t mistake and use it for licentious games.

turf
rune
while

Nicely done, lady Joy!

turf
rune
while

Sprawled on the withered grey turf, Wizard Leeroy glared furiously at the bland beige sky overhead. The house-sized Rune of Tedium floated aimlessly above, emitting an insipid glow from its nondescript lines and corners. In an attempt to while away the duration of the spell, Wizard Leeroy quietly and imaginatively cursed his own clumsiness in accidentally casting the Tedium Rune, rather than the Sigil of Happy Coincidences that he had intended.

pastry
fleet
effervesce

pastry, fleet, effervescence

Anton’s hand fell over the Viennese pastry, his mouth watering. The aroma was fleet, its fresh smell meeting his nose almost instantly. As the sweet food reached his tongue, a feeling of effervescence began to bubble in him.

lugubrious
conduce
sour

Jeez, you're fast, Foul! Not to mention looking like a veteran sentence-player.

Since I've written my paragraph, I'm going to post it anyway:

pastry fleet effervesce

Paddy the Pastry Cook wanted a change of scene. He decided the best way to get it was to join the Fleet, where he could have a new recipe in every port. He didn’t anticipate that his recipes in their cardfile would effervesce from the sea air and become jealously aware of each other ... but that was the last anyone ever saw of Paddy.

minor
hat
plummy

lugubrious conduce sour

Hiram in the garden was lugubrious about his prospects. He had thought a load of compost would conduce to a bumper crop of vegetables, but instead he had a bumper crop of caterpillars. He made a sour face, burned the lot, and planted flamingoes.

Back to my set of words that hasn’t been used yet.

minor
hat
plummy

In the minor province of hat, the fat cat purred with its incredibly plummy voice, "good to meet you"

infinity
infinitesimal
scalar

Help! Where are the three sentences, Gil?

infinity infinitesimal scalar

He could have gone an infinity without this night. His desire to attend was infinitesimal. But in order even to be considered for the teaching assistant’s post, he was going to have to sit through this lecture on scalar measurement and look like he understood it.

delicacy
fro
mephitic

lol sorry, after being away for so long i forgot how to play!

With a delicacy admired by everyone who worked with him, jim the plumber unscrewed the sewer pipe from its junction. To and fro it swung as it sprayed its purulent contents over jims lap and discustedly he climbed out of his trench. From afar in the plumbing truck the mephetic odours reached the retching workers, who later died.

fantasia
excrete
concrete

fantasia excrete concrete

The natives of the pristine isle were appalled by the morbid fantasia of technology (the invaders called it "progress") unfolding before them. They dejectedly watched the latest carrier jet excrete its troops onto the assembly platform. Already, their beaches and grasslands were being devoured by the concrete juggernaut called "progress."

decrescendo derring-do mansard