Exercise: alphabet alliteration

[vaneramos]

As suggested by lisalemonjello.

• A: amusement, alphabet, anniversary, agenda, appetite; attack, appeal; archaic, actual
  
• B: baleen, beluga, bridge, bestiary, bond; bribe, banish; brown, banal
  
• C: capsule, coast, chart, channel, choreography; catch, creep; cryptic, close
  
• D: dandelion, dragon, denizen, donation, derision; decide, divide; diseased, dental
  
• E: eclipse, epilogue, eventuality, easement, eagle; elapse, eke; early, essential
  
• F: fraternity, fly, fright, focus, ferret; fetch, flee; flagrant, flippant
  
• G: grandmother, gaggle, growth, government, glee; gobble, grace; gory, gonadal
  
• H: hansom, holiday, hope, horror, hate; help, heave; hallucinogenic, hard
  
• I: icicle, impotence, island, irritability, illusion; insinuate, impend; ill, inept
  
• J: joke, jaguar, javelin, jest, jubilee; jump, jumble; jealous, jarring
  
• K: karate, king, knight, kite, kibble; kill, kiss; known, kind
  
• L: loss, lunatic, lavatory, lotion, loom; love, leave; labile, loquacious
  
• M: moss, maniac, moratorium, movement, missive; make, maroon; monstrous, moral
  
• N: nettle, noose, notary, novel, nerve; nibble, nestle; new, numinous
  
• O: opium, opossum, olive, oligarchy, origin; oppose, open; oval, odd
  
• P: pretense, practitioner, penitentiary, probe, prose; prevent, pack; prior, pleasant
  
• Q: quintessence, qualm, queen, quest, question; quiver, quit; queer, quick
  
• R: river, rabble, resonance, rival, rogue; rave, rumble; red, romantic
  
• S: satin, stove, stationery, sample, sore; state, salivate; stable, stupid
  
• T: table, tenderness, tile, treacle, temper; try, trounce; torrential, timid
  
• U: use, urgency, uplands, universe, unguent; unfold, understand; ugly, umpteenth
  
• V: vacuole, vehemence, vanity, variation, verse; vex, vanish; vocal, valuable
  
• W: wreckage, wombat, weasel, winter, work; wobble, wrench; wise, willing
  
• X: xenophobe, xanthan, xi, xylophone, xenon; xerox, x-ray; xeric, xerothermic
  
• Y: yacht, youth, yokel, yarrow, yeast; yell, yellow; yearly, yielding
  
• Z: zipper, zone, zephyr, zebra, zit; zoom, zip; zealous, zesty

The capsule crept a close choreography along the channel, charting the coast. Its denizens, diseased dragons, were divided by derision. Their essential eclipse elapsed into the eventuality of an early epilogue, gory with the growth of government by a gaggle of grandmothers, gobbling with glee. Insinuating irritability, inept with the illusion of an impending island, their monstrous moral movement made moratorium, marooning all these quick, quivering queens of qualms. They quit their quest. Vocal vehemence vexed all variation, and vanity vanished. Wise weasels worked willingly to wrench the wreckage. Winter yielded to youth, and a yearly yell on the yellowing yacht.

Comments

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

Oh! This was very very good! Vanity vanished -- I don't know why that sticks out for me but it does and I like it tremendously. Thank you for doing it. It helps me to see other examples of how it works. This was a hard one for me.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The word list happened pretty quickly for me. I suppose this is because I have eight to ten Scrabble games on the go online on a daily basis, which really helps with manipulating letters in my head! One of my strategies was to work through likely combinations of first three letters, e.g. vab, vac, vad, vaf, vag—most of these are useless, but vac and vag suggest all kinds of words. I got all my nouns without help, but needed to use word lists for verbs and adjectives in some of the harder letters, mostly k, x, y and z. Here's a dictionary that offers good lists of words "that start with".

http://www.bluerider.com/