MADE-UP WORDS
Creative Imagination
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Exercise: These words have no meaning without you, literally. Take these made-up words and give them definitions. For extra points, write a sentence using your newly defined word in context. Who knows? It could be a thing.
Why: “Creating languages opened up worlds of imagination, and allowed me to create my own world,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien in his essay Secret Vice. There’s a good chance you and your friends have done this to some extent already. We’re continually exploring and confronting the flexibility of language. Building language, whether casual or formal, activates a primal part of the brain for expression and creativity and it's a classic builder of creative imagination.
Enhances Creative Imagination which includes divergent thinking, brainstorming, removing barriers, and combining ideas without rules or judgments.
Example:
DEFENESTRATE
Definition: Throwing a person or thing out of a window.
Use it: 'Howard made me so cross, I had to fight the urge to defenestrate him.'
NIBLING Definition: The gender-neutral term for nieces or nephews.
Use it: 'How many niblings do you have?'
GRIFFONAGE
Definition: Careless or illegible handwriting.
Use it: 'I can never read Rupert's griffonage.'
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