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Creative Writing Vocab
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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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1. Suited to the purpose or occasion
dilapidated
reverberation
apt
wry
2. A foundation or basis
underpinnings
dispossessed
dross
abiding
3. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
primordial
torpor
wry
uncannily
4. Enduring steadfast
torrid
belated
abiding
cerebral
5. Incapable of being explained
dispossessed
inexplicable
coalesce
ancestral
6. To cause to become irritated or upset
radiant
suffuse
forlorn
jangle
7. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
admonition
nettle
sacrilegious
hull
8. A condition or agonizing struggle
modulation
avaricious
mediation
throes
9. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
wry
cerebral
suffuse
underpinnings
10. Solitude or seclude
provincialize
sequester
cerebral
frazzled
11. A gentle reprimand
ogle
admonition
burnish
sacrilegious
12. Extraordinarily
primordial
unravel
wry
uncannily
13. A pleasure or hobby
presumptuous
haltingly
querulous
avocation
14. To feel or express worry - annoyance
avocation
provincialize
fret
coherent
15. To polish a surface by friction
throes
paradox
embryonic
burnish
16. Regulating or toning down
skinflint
modulation
unravel
reverberation
17. The standard native language of a country
vernacular
rendition
paradox
inexplicable
18. Shining bright
dilapidated
radiant
scrutinize
torrid
19. Tastelessly showy
resuscitate
coalesce
throes
garish
20. Of the greatest degree or quality
taper
ancestral
utmost
fluke
21. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
ogle
fluke
clairvoyant
unravel
22. Coming after the expected time
reverberation
prissy
forlorn
belated
23. Prim or proper
rendition
prissy
vernacular
hull
24. Basic - undeveloped
resuscitate
frazzled
embryonic
rendition
25. Bitterly amusing
doctrine
coherent
overweening
wry
26. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
mediation
receptive
propensity
hyperventilate
27. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
overweening
resuscitate
querulous
coalesce
28. Possessions evicted
hyperventilate
bulbous
dispossessed
haltingly
29. Bulging
garish
bulbous
pristine
titter
30. Original beginning
vernacular
torpor
torrid
primordial
31. Misguided and stubborn
laconic
wrongheaded
tattered
sacrilegious
32. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
propensity
sprawl
wrongheaded
tattered
33. Strengthening or hardening
vernacular
flume
wry
annealing
34. A translation or interpretation
rendition
inexplicable
burnish
flume
35. Descending from ancestors
provincialize
ancestral
rendition
garish
36. Ragged - torn
tattered
overweening
forlorn
gambit
37. Greedy
laconic
windfall
dispossessed
avaricious
38. Full of complaints
ogle
provincialize
scrubby
querulous
39. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
provincialize
presumptuous
primordial
throes
40. To laugh nervously
titter
frazzled
coalesce
suffuse
41. To become more slender toward one end
taper
gambit
dross
bulbous
42. An accidental advantage
fluke
coalesce
wry
rendition
43. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
sacrilegious
modulation
receptive
reverberation
44. Not revealing what one thinks
noncommittal
apt
overweening
sequester
45. Waste matter - something of no value
unravel
dross
embryonic
cerebral
46. To spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
inexplicable
cerebral
querulous
47. To soothe or quiet
torrid
scrutinize
doctrine
lull
48. A tendency
propensity
unravel
avaricious
tattered
49. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
torrid
apt
flume
hull
50. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
tattered
gambit
apt
pristine