Starting Point | Opposite (Negation) | Spiral (Negation of Negation) | ||
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A | Acorn | Acorn intact | Acorn destroyed as it sprouts | Tree grows and produces new/different acorns |
B | Balance | Walking, but carelessly | Tripping. losing your balance | Walking, but being more careful |
C | Come-back | Before the big game--happy with anticipation | Feeling despair as your team falls behind | Feeling ecstasy as your team pulls off a big come-back and wins (Of course this is just a negation if your team loses, but then, there's always next year.) |
D | Diapers | Without diapers, a baby makes a mess | Diapers preserve cleanliness, but are a hassle | By learning to use a bathroom, toddlers keep themselves clean, no longer needing diapers |
E | Evolution | Living species | Death of those least adapted | Survival of new species, better adapted |
F | Funeral | A living friend | Death, grief | A funeral celebrates the friend's life, relieving grief |
G | Graduation | Before school, uneducated | Going to school | Graduating, with an education |
H | Healing | Health, but without anti-bodies | Sickness | Health, but with anti-bodies to combat future sickness |
I | Install | Intersection is built | Collisions occur | Install stop sign to improve safety |
J | Justice | An innocent person | Treated unfairly | An apology, reparations, justice |
K | Kill | Living plants and animals | These living things are killed to make food for people | People eat the food and are able to live |
L | Learning | Ignorant, but blissful | Learning, having to work at it | Knowledgeable, and blissful |
M | Massage | Before--Sore and tense | Getting a massage | After--Feeling less sore and tense |
N | Negation of negation | Starting point | Negation of starting point to an opposite | Negation of negation, back to the starting point, but with something different |
O | Operation | Ailing and in need of surgery | Doctors perform an operation | Recovering, and in better health (hopefully) |
P | Protest | You disagree, but say nothing | Finally, you have to protest | Even if you don't get your way, at least you feel better |
Q | Question | You're puzzled and confused, but quiet | Ask a question | Afterwards, you might get an answer. |
R | Reading | Being illiterate | Studying to learn to read | No longer studying reading, but being literate |
S | Spiral | Starting up a spiral staircase | Going half-way around to the other side | Completing the circle, but being higher |
T | Teach | You know, but they don't | You teach them | Now you both know |
U | Undo | You're typing along on the computer | You accidentally hit the wrong key and erase your file | Click Undo, and you're back where your started, but being more careful |
V | Valve | A steam engine is working hard | It overheats and could explode | The safety valve releases the energy; the overheating can be fixed without an explosion |
W | Walk | Left . . . | Right . . . | Left. . . but now you're two steps ahead |
X | eXtra | The car is moving along, but one tire is going bad | A flat tire stops the car | The extra tire gets you back on your way |
Y | Yesterday | Yesterday is negated by | Today, which is negated by | Tomorrow. Each day is different. |
Z | Zig Zag | Start up the mountain in one direction | Cut back in the opposite direction | Zig zag back in the original direction, but at a higher level |