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Exercise 1: Redefining Words
Look at these words and see if you can redefine them.
Broadband...
Covenant...
Dialysis...
Endear...
Liability...
Lexicon...
Readiness...
Phonetics...
Hinterland...
Senile...
Answers on the next page...

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How did the class do?
Broadband... fat boy group
Covenant... an insect belonging to witches
Dialysis... phone your sister
Endear... instructions for cockneys about where to stop
Liability... ability to tell fibs
Lexicon... a book of words that aren’t real
Readiness... waiting to read a good book
Phonetics... mobile etiquette
Hinterland... place where people never talk about anything directly
Senile... an Egyptian river trip
Everyone  has  managed  to  do  some  redefinitions  and  it’s  interesting  how  they
have interpreted the words differently. There are no right or wrong answers. The
same formula can produce different ideas.
One of them has...
Endear – Instructions for cockneys about where to stop
The other has...
Endear – a cockney graveyard
But which do you prefer? I would argue the second version is a more concise
redefinition  but  it  has  exactly  the  same  meaning  as  the  first  –  that’s  where  the
creativity  comes  in.  Finding  the  word  is  the  perspiration,  redefining  it  is  the
inspiration. I send them off for tea and very sweet, chocolaty biscuits (but me? I
nibble a carrot dipped in hummus).

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