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Creative Writing Vocab
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writing-skills
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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
apt
torpor
presumptuous
lull
2. To spread with liquid - color - or light
bulbous
wry
suffuse
embryonic
3. To look at flirtatiously
ogle
laconic
unravel
noncommittal
4. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
coherent
wrongheaded
hyperventilate
gambit
5. Descending from ancestors
rendition
reverberation
ancestral
avert
6. Possessions evicted
lull
taper
dispossessed
clairvoyant
7. To become more slender toward one end
taper
pristine
torpor
primordial
8. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
wry
hull
paradox
coalesce
9. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
rendition
sprawl
dilapidated
clairvoyant
10. Of the greatest degree or quality
frazzled
utmost
torrid
hyperventilate
11. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
overweening
torpor
avaricious
laconic
12. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
sequester
sprawl
flume
embryonic
13. Logically connected
fluke
unravel
coherent
provincialize
14. Regulating or toning down
dilapidated
modulation
frazzled
apt
15. Tastelessly showy
admonition
abiding
mediation
garish
16. Coming after the expected time
ancestral
tattered
querulous
belated
17. A gentle reprimand
internalize
admonition
tattered
doctrine
18. A translation or interpretation
torpor
prissy
coalesce
rendition
19. Unexpected gain
resuscitate
windfall
taper
prissy
20. Full of complaints
querulous
propensity
pristine
fret
21. Waste matter - something of no value
vernacular
dross
burnish
radiant
22. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
internalize
dilapidated
avocation
haltingly
23. To polish a surface by friction
burnish
flume
embryonic
admonition
24. To feel or express worry - annoyance
fret
radiant
hyperventilate
dilapidated
25. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
propensity
presumptuous
scrubby
cerebral
26. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
dilapidated
belated
dross
torpor
27. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
torpor
reverberation
suffuse
sacrilegious
28. To blend together
forlorn
pristine
coalesce
ancestral
29. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
forlorn
burnish
avocation
reverberation
30. Hesitatingly
avaricious
haltingly
utmost
forlorn
31. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
coalesce
windfall
doctrine
vernacular
32. Oppressively hot
admonition
torrid
abiding
belated
33. A tendency
propensity
scrutinize
receptive
rendition
34. To turn away or aside
avert
torpor
nettle
primordial
35. To solve or make clear
gambit
torpor
unravel
taper
36. Extraordinarily
embryonic
ogle
uncannily
underpinnings
37. A pleasure or hobby
belated
apt
avocation
haltingly
38. Ragged - torn
burnish
reverberation
windfall
tattered
39. Willing to receive suggestions
garish
frazzled
avocation
receptive
40. Not revealing what one thinks
throes
hull
noncommittal
clairvoyant
41. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
internalize
nettle
vernacular
fret
42. To soothe or quiet
abiding
utmost
garish
lull
43. Worn-out
scrubby
underpinnings
bulbous
frazzled
44. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
skinflint
avert
frazzled
mediation
45. To laugh nervously
belated
uncannily
admonition
titter
46. An accidental advantage
dispossessed
apt
fluke
torrid
47. Basic - undeveloped
avaricious
burnish
clairvoyant
embryonic
48. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
prissy
provincialize
internalize
jangle
49. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
dilapidated
presumptuous
unravel
wry
50. Prim or proper
ogle
prissy
haltingly
dispossessed