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| make up |
When you make up a story or idea or reason, you invent it in your mind. You use your imagination to create it. [1/2 definitions] |
| original |
When we say that something is "original," we mean that it is new and different. If an idea is original, it took imagination to think of it. [2/6 definitions] |
| pretend |
When young children pretend something, they use their imagination to act like someone or something that they are not. They might act like a lion or a pirate or a monster, for example. They might act as if they are in some other place or time. They might also have fun imagining, for example, that a big box is a fort, or a broom is something that they can fly on. Little children pretend a lot, but older children and adults sometimes pretend things too. [2/3 definitions] |
| project |
to figure or develop in one's imagination. [1/6 definitions] |
| reality |
Reality is all of what we know to exist and be true. Reality is not created by imagination. What we see in dreams at night is not reality. If someone believes they are riding a duck over a cloud of soap bubbles, their mind is not seeing reality. [1/2 definitions] |
| science fiction |
Science fiction is a kind of writing. Science fiction stories are often about people living in the far future or about life on other planets. Science fiction often tells of strange beings or creatures from outer space. Like other kinds of fiction, science fiction tells stories that come from the writer's imagination and are not true stories. |
| slave |
a person who works very hard and without using the imagination. [1/4 definitions] |
| spin |
to form or develop (a story or tale) from the imagination. [1/8 definitions] |
| vision |
something present in or felt by the imagination but not actually present or true. [1/3 definitions] |
| wild |
If something like an idea or proposal is wild, it seems crazy to people. It seems like it can't be done or it could be risky. It seems like it could only exist or happen in someone's imagination and not in reality. [1/9 definitions] |
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