MLMM Monday Wordle ~138

Time to get my Monday hat on and put a few words together!
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1. Freedom
2. Nebulated (adj.)) having dim or indistinct markings, as a bird or other animal.)
3. Stymie
Noun
Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball’s lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
Verb
To hinder, block, or thwart
4. Caress
5. Clasp Hands
6. Jump
7. Original
8. Lull
9. Fester
10. Graphite
11. Visualize
12. Artwork

There was a lull in their timetable, and Elsa jumped at the freedom to view original artwork rather than the set pieces of boring fruit or flowers which tended to stymie her imagination.
Using a graphite pencil, she visualized and then sketched a pair of clasped hands, and rather than present them as a nebulated piece, shaded various areas to suggest depth, age and texture.
She basked in the warm caress of praise from the art tutor, totally unaware of the hatred festering in the heart of another student who had previously been the centre of attention.