Word Association

enliven - indeed! I like the cut of your jib, young fella me lad! With swords drawn shall we slash and cut this tentacled monster back into the deep from whence it came, a tentacle-less shadow of its former formidability!

I trust you will not be too alarmed if use a more palatable likeness for times when I'm not in battle? For to see, the Whangdoodles have many allies, alas, even amongst our own kind!

improve (Well, I must say the chieftess feels much better! Your arrival has given her an awakened desire to continue with this mission!

Your clever description makes me feel very jovial! It's like medicine to the sad heart. I hope that you will use whatever likeness you require for your preservation!)

upgrade- please extend my best wishes to the chieftess, and I'm pleased my arrival has awakened within her a desire to continue a very important mission.

modernize (Thank you most kindly. That mission can't possibly be successful without masterly skills! We have much catching up to do, but being experts in the field of Whangdoodling we no doubt have it in the bag.)

contemporize - you are most welcome. I think the bag is probably one of the safest places for the tentacles left over from a hard day's (or a night's - depending on one's timezone) Whangdoodling, so I can understand your emphasis on ensuring masterly skills in one's shipmates. Especially when detentacling these seafaring Whangdoodles. Just make sure the bag is Whangdoodle-tentacle poison-barb proof, and ideally, refrigerated, if we're going to make a modest profit selling these at the nearest fish market in the morning...

arrange (I see you are already getting the hang of this game and got me looking up words
And it sounds like you are already a master at this mission! I'll be sure to have some bags formulated to withstand Whangdoodle-tentacle poison barbs. And refrigeration too? I'll at least make sure the bags are are made of that same material as insulated freezer bags. It also sounds like I need to come up with an antivenom for the Whangdoodle-tentacle poison barbs in case anyone is inflicted!)

schematize - lol. Hardly. I simply picked a word I knew and added "ize" to the end... Seems I got lucky that time? Coming up with an antivenom for Whangdoodle-tentacle poison barbs seems like an excellent idea. I've heard that vinegar can be helpful, but who takes a bottle of vinegar with him when he's sailing the seven seas in search of aquatic Whangdoodles to detentaclize?