Hey all! It's your friendly neighborhood old person here with only the freshest of ideas: vocabulary writing prompts! In this exercise, I will post a new word everyday, along with it's definition, and a short, original vignette showing off the word in context. I invite anyone and everyone to also write a short sample of your work utilizing the word of the day so that we can all stretch our writing muscles and learn fresh new words, as well as how to use them properly in context.
Sound good? Good!
The first word of the day is: miasma
A miasma (plural: miasmata), which is a noun, is defined as "a highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor" or "an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere that surrounds or emanates from something".
Conarith almost fainted when she left her house that sweltering, summer day. It was only seven in the morning and it was already hot enough to cook an egg on the ground. Normally, that would not have been a problem for the witch of the forest; she was used to the heat. But what she was not used to was the thick miasma of hot garbage that wafted through the early air. The stench was so oppressive that Conarith could hardly breath, so she immediately escaped to the cleaner air of her home.
Such was life living down wind from the city dump.
Ok, so day 1 is (pretty much) complete. Moving on to the next word!
Today's word of the day is: eclectic
Eclectic, which is an adjective, is defined as "deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources." It can also be used as a noun for "a person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources."
Conarith was feeling low. She needed a fix. The children had just experienced a difficult point in their lives, and their mother was too frazzled to be able to help them.
Conarith slipped past the solemn faces of her daughters and down to the wine cellar. Thanks to her husband's eclectic taste in drink, finding the poison that would take her pain away was a simple task. She focused on one bottle in particular. The glass was in the shape of a rose and the drink was pastel pink. Conarith ripped off the cork and took a whiff of the bottle's contents; a small smile graced her lips at the pleasant aroma.
Not even bothering to find a glass, Conarith raised the lip of the bottle to her own and tilted her head back.
Today's word of the day is: antithesis
Antithesis, which is a noun, is defined as "a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else" or "a contrast or opposition between two things".
Conarith shook her head and sighed at the sight of her little Lyra covered nearly head to toe in chocolate mix.
"I swear to the Divine, you are truly the antithesis of good sense," she scolded.
But when her daughter smiled her usual goofy grin, showing off her chocolate-covered teeth, Conarith could not help but to laugh.
