Yr 10 Wk 18 - hagrider

From Online Thesarus & Rhyming Dictionary (felt like cheating, but will acknowlege it yielded some new ideas)
(will do the phrases & couplets another evening)


palette

a rich palette of tones and timbres

a palette of flavors

rhymes

palette: doublet ballot debit

bystander

a chance spectator

innocent bystanders

eyewitness, witness; peeper, spy, voyeur

rhymes

bystander: pomander, backhander

witness: whit, whittle, whittled, whittles, wit, witless, witness, witnessed, witted, witty

swirling

pivot, revolve, roll, rotate, spin, swing, swirl, swivel, twirl, twist, wheel, whirl

coiling

rhymes

swerving: sterling

coiling: boiling, broiling, coiling, foiling, moiling, oiling, roiling, soiling, spoiling, toiling

coyly,

incomplete

deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, half, halfway, partial

broken, damaged, flawed, impaired, imperfect, injured, marred, spoiled; sketchy, unassembled, uncompleted, unfinished

Near Antonyms: flawless, unbroken, undamaged, unimpaired, uninjured, unmarred; completed, finished

Antonyms: complete, entire, full, intact, integral, perfect, whole

rhymes

flawed: abroad, applaud, awed, bawd, broad, cawed, clawed, defraud, flawed, fraud, gaud, gnawed, god, guffawed, hawed, hurrahed, jawed, laud, maraud, outlawed, pawed, sawed, seesawed, thawed, whipsawed, yawed, yod

fragment: accent, advent, ascent, assent, augment, bent, cement, cent, comment, consent, content, convent, dent, descent, event, extent, ferment, foment, forwent, fragment, gent, hellbent, indent, intent, invent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misspent, pent, percent, portent, present, prevent, relent, rent, repent, resent, scent, sent, spent, tent, torment, trident, unbent, unmeant, unsent, unspent, vent, went

history

a history of

chronicle, record

memoir, biography, life; epic, legend, narrative, saga, story, tale; archives,

chronicle, chronology, commentary (usually commentaries), history, narration, narrative

testament, testimonial, testimony, witness

romance; recital, recitation; case history, case study, anecdote

rhymes

legend: leavened ledger levied

absence

blankness, emptiness, vacuity, vacuum, void

rhymes

void: voice, voiced, voicedness, voiceless, voiceprint, voiceprints, voices, voicing, void, voidance, voided, voider, voiders, voiding, voidness, voids, voyage, voyaged, voyeur, voyeurs

adenoid, alloyed, android, annoyed, avoid, buoyed, cancroid, conoid, convoyed, decoyed, dendroid, deployed, destroyed, devoid, discoid, employed, enjoyed, freud, hemorrhoid, keloid, lymphoid, mastoid, negroid, octroyed, sarcoid, schizoid, sigmoid, sphenoid, spheroid, steroid, tabloid, thyroid, toxoid, toyed, typhoid, void, zincoid

dreaming

to form a mental picture

conceit [chiefly dialect], conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, picture, see, vision, visualize

meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure

rhymes

dreaming: beaming creaming deeming dreaming gleaming reaming scheming screaming seaming seeming steaming streaming teaming teeming

manfacture: fracture

backdrop

form the setting against which something is viewed

scene, scenery, set, stage;

Near Antonyms: foreground; center, focal point, focus, heart

rhymes

scenery: scene, sceneries, scenery, scenic, seen, senior, seniors, signor

focus: crocus, focus, hocus, locus

stage: age, assuage, backstage, cage, downstage, engage, enrage, front-page, gage, gauge, offstage, onstage, osage, outrage, page, presage, rage, rampage, sage, space-age, stage, swage, teenage, upstage, wage