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Creative Writing Vocab
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Subjects
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writing-skills
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bvat
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Extraordinarily
windfall
frazzled
modulation
uncannily
2. Full of complaints
scrubby
abiding
radiant
querulous
3. Possessions evicted
primordial
overweening
dispossessed
hull
4. An accidental advantage
annealing
fluke
forlorn
avaricious
5. To feel or express worry - annoyance
prissy
avocation
fret
sacrilegious
6. Worn-out
inexplicable
garish
ogle
frazzled
7. To spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
garish
tattered
radiant
8. A tendency
dispossessed
propensity
fluke
sprawl
9. Uncorrupted or unsullied
abiding
pristine
annealing
clairvoyant
10. To revive from death or unconsciousness
admonition
fret
resuscitate
ogle
11. Tastelessly showy
windfall
dross
propensity
garish
12. To soothe or quiet
wrongheaded
lull
apt
annealing
13. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
hull
embryonic
utmost
laconic
14. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
vernacular
scrutinize
sacrilegious
jangle
15. To become more slender toward one end
dispossessed
annealing
taper
belated
16. To laugh nervously
titter
belated
fret
utmost
17. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
hyperventilate
ancestral
sprawl
frazzled
18. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
scrutinize
haltingly
radiant
nettle
19. A condition or agonizing struggle
burnish
paradox
gambit
throes
20. To examine in detail
admonition
scrutinize
clairvoyant
fret
21. Shabby - wretched
apt
propensity
scrubby
embryonic
22. Not revealing what one thinks
bulbous
propensity
admonition
noncommittal
23. To cause to become irritated or upset
avaricious
haltingly
jangle
skinflint
24. Coming after the expected time
haltingly
fret
scrutinize
belated
25. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
provincialize
ogle
pristine
primordial
26. Bitterly amusing
dross
fluke
wry
resuscitate
27. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
windfall
dross
sprawl
annealing
28. A foundation or basis
vernacular
dispossessed
fret
underpinnings
29. A pleasure or hobby
avocation
burnish
avert
pristine
30. Misguided and stubborn
embryonic
abiding
wrongheaded
belated
31. The standard native language of a country
vernacular
avocation
coalesce
pristine
32. To turn away or aside
modulation
dilapidated
avert
apt
33. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
resuscitate
flume
fluke
abiding
34. A gentle reprimand
prissy
noncommittal
belated
admonition
35. Shining bright
radiant
taper
skinflint
resuscitate
36. Prim or proper
reverberation
laconic
embryonic
prissy
37. Original beginning
haltingly
primordial
forlorn
prissy
38. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
provincialize
receptive
taper
paradox
39. To look at flirtatiously
utmost
provincialize
ogle
lull
40. Incapable of being explained
frazzled
resuscitate
hull
inexplicable
41. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
cerebral
provincialize
noncommittal
hyperventilate
42. Solitude or seclude
propensity
primordial
sequester
unravel
43. Waste matter - something of no value
underpinnings
jangle
belated
dross
44. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
fluke
sacrilegious
clairvoyant
sprawl
45. Unhappy or miserable
forlorn
presumptuous
hyperventilate
avocation
46. Ragged - torn
burnish
tattered
bulbous
internalize
47. To polish a surface by friction
querulous
burnish
avaricious
utmost
48. Basic - undeveloped
overweening
taper
embryonic
sacrilegious
49. Enduring steadfast
torrid
overweening
embryonic
abiding
50. Regulating or toning down
dilapidated
gambit
internalize
modulation