Words for Wednesday

 

WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY 9-27-17

And my dear friends, thus endeth my term as provider of the prompts.  Here are the words for this last week in September 2017.

arbitrary

diminution

plausible

immense

temporize

Pandemonium

garble

élan

perfunctory

bifurcate

vermicular

toothsome

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I've never posted this on my blog before, so I didn't know exactly what info I needed to put in this, so I just copied the whole thing.

Here goes: 

The immense, red-faced Judge Carnegie banged his gavel, as he bellowed, “Silence, order in the court!”

Pandemonium had broken out when Mr. Smith, the lawyer introduced his arbitrary client, a small speckled dog. It trembled in fear, seated on the frigid, hard chair. Mr. Smith glowered at the crowd. They were the cause of this diminution.

The judge shifted in his seat, thinking this was all a circus act. Mr. Smith was temporizing and nothing else. How could this vermicular, little dog bring them a plausible explanation? He cleared his throat loudly and said, “Mr. Smith, give us a perfunctory reason why this animal is in my courtroom.”

“Well, Your Honor, he knows what happened to Farmer Brown’s divining rod. It’s as simple as that.” Then he turned to the dog.

“Spot, tell us in your own words, what you know about the bifurcated item.”

Try as he might, the poor dog could only give a garbled testimony. He hung his head. Then he showed a toothsome grin and gave Mr. Smith a wink. He said, with élan, “Sir, Farmer Brown broke his rod beating me for swearing out loud in English.”