The Ups and Downs of Synonyms (New Game)

[papermoon.lady]

I hope this new game will be fun...

In this new game, you have to select a word from the sentence of the previous poster and write a new sentence with a synonym of that word that is either longer or shorter than the original word.

The next poster then chooses a new word from your sentence, selects a synonym of that word that is either longer or shorter and writes a new sentence, and so on.

For example:

- She liked to spend a lot of time at the library, reading old books and pondering about life.

The next poster chooses a word, for example old, and a synonym of a different length, for example elderly, and then writes a new sentence.

- He visited his elderly brother in his tiny apartment and listened to some nice, relaxing music with him.

And so on...

Let's get started...

- When she entered the shop that seemed to have magically appeared overnight, she had a strange feeling of déjà vu, even if she was sure she had never seen it before, let alone entered it.

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TREK - Sybilla Fforde-Lessington pulled her face into an adorable moue and sighed languorously, pulling the frilled edge of her silk housecoat together with one hand as she stretched her remaining limbs and settled more comfortably upon her daybed in an attitude of repose.

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LIMBS - A strange creature had appeared on the beach, seeming to be in distress as it flailed it's many appendages rather violently on the wet sand.

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SAND - Cameron was looking forward to Woodwork today; they would be able to plane the rough edges from their dolls’-house furniture, and varnish the final result, and the best pieces would be selected for the school Project Display!

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FINAL - She was ecstatic when she finished the race at the school carnival before one other child - it was the first time she hadn't finished last in a running competition.

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RUNNING - Joanne’s breath came in painful chugs as she threw a desperate glance behind her while fleeing from the enraged greengrocer who had threatened to turn her into fruit salad after she’d upset his display of pomegranate-studded pineapples.

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GLANCE - Her high school crush had just arrived at the party and, although she hadn't even thought of him for years, she was so embarrassed at the memory of her youthful feelings that she couldn't even look across the room at him.

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EMBARRASSED - Josh Garroway-Ffylkert had just been outed as the anonymous author of the salacious novel “The Bawdy Lordies”, which was a major scandal sweeping the country after G-F’s serious work “The Silicone Dream of Kings” had just been nominated for the Booker Prize, leaving the respected author deeply chagrined with mucky egg on his face.

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SWEEPING - The overworked school cleaners were at the end of their tether - they already struggled to complete their duties in the time allocated to them - and had just been instructed to spend an extra few minutes brushing soggy food crumbs from the principal's comfy lounge.

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SOGGY - By the time that Alistair had made it from his car to the front door, his umbrella had blown inside out and his socks had become uncomfortably sodden with rain that had seeped in through a hitherto unsuspected hole in his shoes.

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SEEPED - The cave floor was extremely uncomfortable and rather dangerous to traverse, in part due to the horrible smelly mud that had oozed through every little crack and crevice, making the rocks very wet and slippery underfoot.