Word for Word: Skit

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: skit.

The Spanish Inquisition makes me want to hide.

I was talking with friends when we shifted the conversation to the topic of the Burning Times — an era, lasting centuries, in which thousands of Europeans, 80%…