Okay this was involved! I don't think I'll try one of these exercises again, though I did get a chuckle or two from the "real life definition" version of the story.

Prompt: Look at this list of words and write down what you think they might mean. (If you're familiar with the word, congratulations, you vocabulary whiz! ) Write a piece using the words according to your made-up definition. Then look them up and see what they really mean. What does it do to your story?

enate: physical skill that is present from birth
thersitical: meticulous about following rules or internal values before expecting others to do likewise
polyvalent: brave under any circumstance
materteral: a cemetary section for women only
salutary: like a salute
excrescence: aura, light surrounding an object or person
novercal: new and exciting as it pertains to a location.
sententious: sensitivity that leads to irritation
embracery: compulsive hugging
urtext: hesitant writing

My Aunt Felicity is coming to visit and this is something that I have to prepare for. I suffer from a rather sententious personality, and would prefer a salutary greeting rather than her embracery. I should have been born with an enate that would have allowed me to project an excrescence that would keep her at arm's length.

If I want her to change though, I have to be thersitical and learn to be polyvalent. So I agreed to meet her here at the materteral to honor the women in our family that have come before. Yes this is novercal. Which would explain my urtext journal entry as I wait for dear Aunt Felicity to arrive with her hugs and kisses to hold my hand, whether I want her to or not. Oddly enough, I think I want her to.

Real definitions:
enate: Someone related on the mother's side.
thersitical: Foulmouthed; scurrilous.
polyvalent: Having many layers, meanings, values, etc.; multifaceted.
materteral: Characteristic of, or in the manner of, an aunt.
salutary: Beneficial; useful; remedial.
excrescence: 1. An abnormal outgrowth, e.g. wart. 2. A normal outgrowth, e.g. hair or nail. 3. An unwanted, unnecessary, or disfiguring extension or addition.
novercal: Of or relating to a stepmother; stepmotherly.
sententious: 1. Full of pithy expressions. 2. Full of pompous moralizing.
embracery: (noun, also imbracery) An attempt to influence a jury illegally as by bribery, threats, or promises. One guilty of embracery is known as an embraceor.
urtext: The original or earliest version of a text, such as a musical composition or literary work.

Paragraph rewritten with true definitions inserted:
My Aunt Felicity is coming to visit and this is something that I have to prepare for. I suffer from a personality full of pithy expressions or pompous moralizing , and would prefer a beneficial; useful; remedial greeting rather than her attempt to influence a jury illegally as by bribery, threats, or promises. I should have been born with someone related on the mother's side that would have allowed me to project an unwanted, unnecessary, or disfiguring extension or addition that would keep her at arm's length.

If I want her to change though, I have to be foulmouthed; scurrilous and learn to have many layers, meanings, values, etc.; be multifaceted . So I agreed to meet her here in the manner of an aunt to honor the women in our family that have come before. Yes this is stepmotherly. Which would explain my original, earliest version of my journal entry as I wait for dear Aunt Felicity to arrive with her hugs and kisses to hold my hand, whether I want her to or not. Oddly enough, I think I want her to.