Prompt 09: Rebeing

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Rebeing: A practical exercise in psycholexicography

In your mind, go through the entire alphabet from A to Z choosing as quickly and spontaneously as possible one verb per letter, prefixing each selection with re-, writing the verbs down as you go.

Repeat twice for best results.

Here’s my first list, by way of example.
A second list will redig the same imaginary, just a little deeper.
The third, a little deeper still.


  • Reappropriate
  • Rebuild
  • Recommission
  • Redig
  • Reestablish
  • Refashion
  • Regarnisse
  • Rehash
  • Reintegrate
  • Rejuvenate
  • Rekiss
  • Relink
  • Remember
  • Renumber
  • Reorder
  • Repurpose
  • Reroute
  • Reseed
  • Retract
  • Reuse
  • Revigorate
  • Rewrite
  • Rexerox
  • Reyeast
  • Rezone