Five Interesting Words To Use In A Story
Use these words to inspire a short story. You can use them in any order you like. (If you need guidance on structure, go back to the five paragraph concept we talked about a while back:
1. set up or mood
2. action/generated circumstance
3. plot twist – something unexpected
4. climax or crisis
5. resolution or conclusion)
pingo: a mound or hill of soil-covered ice in permafrost, pushed up by pressure of water seeping in.
decussate
verb: To intersect or to cross.
perendinate
verb: To put off until the day after tomorrow.
decuman
adjective: very large.
borborygmus
noun: A rumbling noise caused by the movement of gas through the intestines.
(With thanks to Anu Garg – please visit www.wordsmith.org for more intriguing words, including their etymologies.)