Write a short, zany story and pepper it with these color words to stimulate your creativity and improve your writing skills:

5-16-21
1. Irrepressible – adj, unable to be controlled

2. Gobsmacked – adj, astounded

3. Cioppino – seafood stew with tomatoes & wine

4. Cleareyed study of

5. Thicket of family betrayals

6. Well-worn ideas

7. Alcoholic vixen

8. Issued grave warnings

9. Skeevy horn dog

10. Her announcement was somber in tone

11. Ceviche and conch chowder – ceviche is a citrus-marinated seafood dish from Peru

12. Muted response

13. Avuncular – adj, relating to an uncle

14. as quick as it was unwarranted

15. Embroiled in scandal

5-15-21
thorny issues
sunny pleasure
enamored by
eased its grip on
ripe for the picking
doozy
pearlescent-beaded black
cavalier
undercut
tart-tongued
sway over
godsend
sustenance
at the precipice
swift condemnation
cocooned herself from
cowered

5-14-21
punchy - forceful, aggressive, immediate impact
ensconce - settle someone in a safe place
facing a glut of
crisp assertiveness
stern and not-so tactful warning
pipe smoker with a push-broom mustache and gruff baritone voice
grandiloquent - pompous, extravagant in language, style, or manner, meant to impress
snickered behind her back
ardent spirit - enthusiastic, passionate
soothe a squalling infant - loud cry (or precipitous storm)
splayed on the couch
lurid details
buttercup yellow
pored over the evidence

5-13-21
excoriate - criticize severely
smacks of
accusations swirl
flout the rules
unwrapped a tasty story
irascible (easily angered) and foulmouthed
with a buckram (coarse linen or other cloth stiffened with gum or paste) face
indemnified - compensate for loss, take responsibility
being gulled (take advantage of a fool) by a huckster
shouldered a heavy load
much-bemoaned - express discontent
chocolate bonbons
off-putting features
saffron-colored blouse

5-12-21
emasculate - deprive a man of his male role or identify
art caper
pinballing between
brought a sniff of desperation
irrepressible - unable to be controlled
trumpeted the message
sedan-sized boulders
collapsed under the grief
rectify
blustery fast-talking representative
hacking cough
ever-petulant - sulky and childish
suppurate - fester, form pus
sneaky good
festooned - decorated with

5-11-21
surly - bad-tempered, unfriendly
scrum
splashy debut
subjugation
spillover
smoldering
stupefy
swelter
spurious - adj, false or fake
scandals and pratfalls (fall on your butt moment)
skeevy horn dog
smug
sanguine on the matter (optimistic)
spate of bad luck
sashay