NaNoWordSprints Prompts for July 2018
It’s already past November and I’m incredibly late at getting these out, but better late than never, eh?
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July 1, 2018, 5:00pm-7:00pm (UTC-8)
Beginning Tropes
10 min | big first choice |
20 min |
dramatic chase opening
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30 min | morning routine |
10 min |
wake up in a room
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20 min |
starts with a murder
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July 3, 2018, 9:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Word Pairs
10 min |
first and last, fish and chips, flesh and blood, forgive and forget
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20 min |
ladies and gentlemen, law and order, life or death, lock and key
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30 min |
birds and bees, black and white, body and soul, bread and butter
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10 min |
cloak and dagger, coat and tie, coffee and doughnuts, cream and sugar
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20 min |
prim and proper, profit and loss, pros and cons, pure and simple
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30 min |
signed and sealed, slip and slide, soap and water, sooner or later
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10 min |
tall and thin, thick and thin, terms and conditions, to and fro
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10 min |
rain or shine, ranting and raving, read and write, rhyme or reason
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15 min |
high and low, hot and bothered, huffing and puffing, husband and wife
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30 min |
drawn and quartered, day or night, do or die, dead or alive
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July 5, 2018, 10:30pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Magic: the Gathering – Ice Age and Dissension
10 min |
chill to the bone, commandeer, controvert, counterbalance, cover of winter
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20 min |
feast of flesh, field marshal, flash freeze, frozen solid, fury of the horde
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30 min |
scrying sheets, sheltering ancient, snow-covered forest, sound the call, stalking yeti
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10 min |
bond of agony, bound, brace for impact, brain pry, bronze bombshell
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15 min |
cackling flames, celestial ancient, condemn, crime and punishment, coiling oracle
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30 min |
supply and demand, seal of doom, spell snare, squealing devil, stalking vengence
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July 6, 2018, 10:00pm-2:00am (UTC-8)
Magic the Gathering – Ice Age Block, Dissension, Guildpact, Ravnica
10 min |
research and development, rise and fall, rain of gore, ratcatcher, riot spikes
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20 min |
pain magnification, plumes of peace, pride of the clouds, proclamation of rebirth, proper burial
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30 min |
stealing stance, stoic ephemera, stomp and howl, street savvy, swift silence
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10 min |
walking archive, war’s toll, weight of spires, wit’s end, wrecking ball
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20 min |
castigate, caustic rain, conjurer’s ban, crash landing, cremate
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30 min |
savage twister, seize the soul, steam vents, stitch in time, stomping ground
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10 min |
bound and determined, belfry spirit, benediction of moons, bioplasm, blind hunter
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20 min |
resize, rabble-rouser, repeal, restless bones, rumbling slum
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30 min |
bathe in light, benevolent ancestor, birds of paradise, blockbuster, breath of fury
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5 min |
cry of contrition, caregiver, char, clinging darkness, concerted effort
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July 7, 2018, 9:45am-12:00pm (UTC-8)
Magic the Gathering – Ice Age Block, Dissension, Guildpact, Ravnica
10 min |
dark depths, debtor’s knell, douse in gloom, droning bureaucrats, dark confidant
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20 min |
earthen goo, electrolyze, empty the catacombs, eye of the storm, ethereal usher
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30 min |
fertile imagination, flash foliage, feral animist, frazzle, fiery conclusion
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10 min |
grim harvest, govern the guildless, ghost warden, godless shrine, gather courage
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20 min |
hallowed fountain, hide and seek, hit and run, hatching plans, hour of reckoning
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10 min |
into the north, ignorant bliss, infernal tutor, incite hysteria, induce paranoia
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July 7, 2018, 4:00pm-6:00pm (UTC-8)
Magic the Gathering – Ice Age Block, Dissension, Guildpact, Ravnica
10 min |
lightning storm, luminesce, leap of flame, living inferno, last gasp
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20 min |
magmatic core, mystic melting, macabre waltz, mortify, moonlight bargain
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30 min |
odds and ends, overrule, overgrown tomb, overwhelm, oathsworn giant
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10 min |
perilous research, psychic possession, psychotic fury, pure and simple, peel from reality
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20 min |
predatory focus, primeval light, pyromatics, perilous forays, perplex
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July 8, 2018, 10:30am-2:00pm (UTC-8)
Magic the Gathering – Ice Age Block, Dissension, Guildpact, Ravnica/Book Titles from January 2014
10 min |
surging dementia, swift maneuver, sacred foundry, scatter the seeds, shadow of doubt
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20 min |
thermal flux, trial and error, taste for mayhem, thrive, telling time
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30 min |
thunderheads, train of thought, temple garden, three dreams, tunnel vision
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10 min |
wall of shards, writ of passage, withstand, wreck havoc, watery grave
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20 min |
arctic flats, agent of masks, angel of despair, anarchist, annex
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30 min |
killer instinct, keening banshee, kraken’s eye, king cheetah, kami of old stone
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10 min |
vanish into memory, valor made real, vindictive mob, voyager staff, venerable monk
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20 min |
siren song, sunshine shimmers, stake a claim, star road, shadows of death
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10 min |
bitter spirits, bird, butterfly palace, breach zone, bed time
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July 8, 2018, 4:30pm-8:00pm (UTC-8)
Book Titles from January 2014
10 min |
firelight friends, flying colors, forgiving the angel, flower power, fearless
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20 min |
crossfire, classroom capers, cursed in the act, crimson veil, cry of the children
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30 min |
working the farm, wicked after midnight, welcome to the neighborhood, winter sky, work done for hire
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10 min |
ripper, ravens and gorillas, radiance of tomorrow, red rising, rancher rescue
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20 min |
after the storm, alliance, autumn rose, audacious aviators, anything to have you
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30 min |
take to the sky, time of attack, tooth fairy, tugboat, trouble on her doorstep
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10 min |
dinosaurs, dancing days, dreaming out loud, dark wolf, death of a chocoholic
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20 min |
unexpected father, undercover captor, up from the grave, under the wide and starry sky, unhinged
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10 min |
lost lake, lizards, lethal lawman, love by the book, lord of the hunt
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July 10, 2018, 8:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Book Titles from January and February 2014
10 min |
monster mania, meeting her match, mitigating circumstances, moon rising, minders
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20 min |
hope flames, hold my hand, how to be a pirate, happily ever after, hanging devils
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30 min |
protectors, promise bound, portrait of a scandal, playing with fire, prisoners of war
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10 min |
iron night, independent study, if only for tonight, in the clutches of the penguin, introspection
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20 min |
going rogue, gift of truth, galactic battle, garden gate, ghostly liaison
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30 min |
nothing sweeter, no one else can have you, nightmares, northern girls, night lights
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10 min |
race against time, river road, revolution, romance for cynics, raven’s hollow
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20 min |
walking on air, white hot kiss, wings of death, white space, while beauty slept
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30 min |
triangles, two to tango, teen spirit, tremor, three souls
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5 min |
days of wine and roquefort, dog gone, do or die, death among the ruins, destination unknown
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July 11, 2018, 8:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Book Titles from February 2014
10 min |
southern heat, strays, scintillate, strange adventures, something real
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20 min |
broken homes, burn, before my eyes, bubble, boy on the edge
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30 min |
high seduction, hunter, hopeful, humbled, hearts rekindled
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10 min |
scarlet devices, second chances, secrets at court, sniper, stillwater
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20 min |
better off friends, birthday hiccups, bound to be dirty, burn bright, before the rose bloomed
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30 min |
fates, fallout, fools’ gold, falling light, forever
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10 min |
unforgotten, under your skin, untethered, underwater adventures, unexpected temptation
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20 min |
night’s promise, not time like the past, never too late, not without you, nest
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30 min |
conquest, cell, children of paradise, close pursuit, coincidence
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5 min |
weasels, when shadows fall, willow, wake, whispers of the heart
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July 13, 2018, 10:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Book Titles from February 2014
10 min |
letting go, love and chaos, life support, light it up, liberty
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20 min |
missing monkey, mending horses, melting the ice, moving target, maybe one day
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30 min |
retribution, reflected, road to reckoning, runner, rule breaker
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10 min |
dreams to sell, dark moon, deep winter, deliverance, days of the knights
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20 min |
pillar to the sky, pieces of me, pioneer girl, pulse point, perfect together
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30 min |
atonement, all that glows, armed and famous, alone with you, avenger’s heat
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20 min |
hard going, heartbeat, house of glass, half a chance, heavy hitters
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July 14, 2018, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Book Titles from February 2014
10 min |
only the good die young, our first embrace, outback attack, off and flying, oopsie-daisy
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20 min |
extra innings, evening stars, exchange
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30 min |
valley of fire, vacation in the wild, vengeance, vampire most wanted, Vienna nocturne
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10 min |
just one more night, jaded, judgement call, joust of honor
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15 min |
gorilla, grandmaster, glass houses, golden state, grasshopper jungle
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30 min |
twisted hills, take a chance, that part was true, truly madly deeply, the truth lies
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July 15, 2018, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Superstitions
10 min | the evil eye |
20 min | ace of spades |
30 min | black cat |
10 min |
shoes on the table
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15 min |
knocking on wood
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30 min |
the law of contagion
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July 16, 2018, 7:30pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Idioms
10 min | ladies who lunch |
20 min |
the dog ate my homework
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30 min |
loose lips sink ships
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10 min | peanut gallery |
20 min |
popularity contest
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30 min |
You kids get off my lawn!
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20 min |
throw under the bus
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10 min |
my way or the highway
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30 min | playing by ear |
10 min |
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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20 min |
a fish out of water
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July 17, 2018, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Book Titles from February 2014/Word of the Day – Merriam-Webster 2018
10 min |
killer frost, kinder than solitude, kiss and tell
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20min |
mise-en-scene, mantic, meritorious, menagerie, muliebrity
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30 min |
boondoggle, balmy, bedizen, beaucoup, besot
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10 min |
abrogate, amortize, agonistic, aggress, arrogate
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20 min |
shenanigan, skirl, slumgullion, sacrosanct, sensibility
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30 min |
collaborate, cajole, chastise, cuckoo, career
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July 18, 2018, 7:30pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
Word of the Day – Merriam-Webster 2018
10 min |
roseate, remuneration, raillery, riposte, reify
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20 min |
epithet, effigy, eventuate, embarrass, elucidate
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30 min |
lambaste, layman, loath, lexicographer, laudable
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10 min |
tantalize, tome, transpire, traduce, telegenic
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15 min |
fustigate, flocculate, flummox, founder, farce
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30 min |
notorious, nascent, newfangled, nondescript, never-never land
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July 20, 2018, 10:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Idioms
10 min |
between the devil and the deep blue sea
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20 min |
exception that proves the rule
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30 min | kick the bucket |
10 min | red herring |
20 min |
smoke and mirrors
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July 21, 2018, 7:30pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Word of the Day – Merriam-Webster 2018
10 min |
proficient, pugnacious, palindrome, petard, parlous
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20 min |
defenestration, decimate, defer, delegate, divest
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30 min |
ingenue, indigence, ineluctable, invigilate, instauration
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10 min |
voracity, veld, vulnerable, vanward, validate
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20 min |
opportune, ostensible, otiose, onomatopoeia, officinal
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30 min |
homogeneous, headlong, hachure, hornswoggle, homiletic
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10 min |
garrulous, grudging, grandiose, gainsay, gravamen
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20 min |
whelm, winsome, woolgathering, wend, wifty
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30 min |
squirl, satisfice, scrouge, senectitude, stent
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10 min |
copper-bottomed, carcinogenic, cervantic, cremnophobia, collusion
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20 min |
nepotism, natant, nitty-gritty, nephalism, narcissism
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July 22, 2018, 1:00pm-10:00pm (UTC-8)
TV Tropes – Plots
10 min |
15 minutes of fame
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20 min | all for nothing |
30 min |
broken masquerade
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10 min |
crossing the desert
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20 min |
destructive savior
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30 min | evil plan |
20 min | fight to survive |
15 min | great escape |
20 min |
he knows too much
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30 min | innocence lost |
10 min |
just fine without you
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20 min |
kids play matchmaker
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30 min | lonely at the top |
20 min | maintain the lie |
10 min | no sympathy |
20 min | on the money |
30 min |
protect this house
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10 min | quest for a wish |
20 min | ransacked room |
30 min | seal the breach |
10 min | talent contest |
10 min | unwanted gift |
15 min |
visions of another self
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20 min |
we need to get proof
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30 min |
let X be the unknown
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10 min |
your worst nightmare
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20 min | zany scheme |
July 23, 2018, 7:00pm-12:00am (UTC-8)
Unusual Words
10 min |
vaaljapie (inferior wine), vacherin (sweet mixture of meringue and whipped cream), vacive (empty), vadelect (servant)
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20 min |
gabble (to chatter or talk inarticulately), gaita (Spanish bagpipes), galanty (shadow play), galeanthropy (belief that one is a cat)
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30 min |
dealbation (whitening), deasil (sunwise motion), decalvant (removing hair), decatise (to uncurl through the use of steam)
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10 min |
tectrix (small feather of a bird’s wing), telarian (creature that spins a web), telos (aim/purpose), temulence (intoxication)
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20 min |
windlass (indirect action), windrow (hay raked together into a line), wirble (to whirl), wist (to know)
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30 min |
bickern (anvil pointed at both ends), biggin (a building), bight (a wide bay), bismer (shame, disgrace, scorn)
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10 min |
modena (crimson), modish (fashionable), moilsome (laborious), mollescent (softening)
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20 min |
nobbut (except), nodated (knotted), noddypeak (fool, imbecile), nolition (adverse action of will, unwillingness)
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30 min |
puisne (inferior in rank), pulicide (flea-killer), pulvil (perfumed powder), punnet (small shallow fruit basket)
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10 min |
huckaback (absorbent cotton used for towels), hulchy (swollen), humgruffin (terrible person), hummock (pile or ridge of ice)
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20 min |
adhibit (to attach), adjutage (nozzle), adunc (hooked), adynamia (helplessness, lack of strength)
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30 min |
cabasset (light iron helmet), cachinnate (to laugh loudly and inappropriately), cacogen (antisocial person), cadge (to beg or sponge from another)
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July 24, 2018, 8:00pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
Rhymes
10 min |
binge, cringe, fringe, singe, twinge
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20 min |
agree, banshee, carefree, debris, goatee
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30 min |
crumb, dumb, numb, plumb, thumb
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10 min |
belong, daylong, furlong, headlong, prolong
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20 min |
acrobat, bureaucrat, copycat, diplomat, habitat
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30 min |
broomstick, chopstick, joystick, nightstick, slapstick
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20 min |
backlash, eyelash, mustache, slapdash, whiplash
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July 25, 2018, 8:00pm-11:00pm (UTC-8)
Random Tropes on TV Tropes
10 min |
you can barely stand
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20 min |
portrait painting peephole
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30 min | silence is golden |
10 min |
a mind is a terrible thing to read
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20 min |
no animals were harmed
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30 min | anti-magic |
20 min |
not helping your case
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July 26, 2018, 10:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Random Tropes on TV Tropes
10 min |
amazingly embarrassing parents
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20 min |
eliminated from the race
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30 min | intrepid reporter |
10 min |
testosterone brigade
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20 min | bridezilla |
30min |
music soothes the savage beast
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20 min | sticky situation |
July 27, 2018, 10:00pm-1:00am (UTC-8)
Phrases
10 min |
some things never change
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20 min |
annoying yet ultimately successful
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30 min |
an entirely different perspective
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10 min |
ready to say goodbye
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20 min | visible traces |
30 min |
when the sun sets we start to worry
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20 min | rebellion brewing |