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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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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. Ragged - torn
garish
tattered
querulous
presumptuous
2. To polish a surface by friction
doctrine
windfall
burnish
torrid
3. Solitude or seclude
overweening
sequester
laconic
fret
4. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
torpor
vernacular
admonition
internalize
5. Bulging
scrubby
bulbous
titter
pristine
6. Logically connected
forlorn
primordial
coherent
sequester
7. To turn away or aside
jangle
avert
clairvoyant
windfall
8. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
abiding
admonition
doctrine
sequester
9. Original beginning
querulous
presumptuous
coherent
primordial
10. Of the greatest degree or quality
clairvoyant
sprawl
utmost
cerebral
11. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
clairvoyant
mediation
fluke
hull
12. To become more slender toward one end
skinflint
taper
hyperventilate
resuscitate
13. Basic - undeveloped
tattered
embryonic
resuscitate
laconic
14. To laugh nervously
avocation
fluke
avaricious
titter
15. To feel or express worry - annoyance
hyperventilate
fret
suffuse
presumptuous
16. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
sprawl
throes
wrongheaded
torpor
17. Prim or proper
modulation
prissy
skinflint
underpinnings
18. Oppressively hot
rendition
torrid
wry
wrongheaded
19. Tastelessly showy
noncommittal
garish
dispossessed
underpinnings
20. A foundation or basis
resuscitate
avert
avaricious
underpinnings
21. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
scrubby
presumptuous
hyperventilate
avaricious
22. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
lull
paradox
throes
skinflint
23. Extraordinarily
sequester
presumptuous
uncannily
dilapidated
24. Possessions evicted
noncommittal
coalesce
garish
dispossessed
25. To examine in detail
doctrine
scrutinize
taper
forlorn
26. A condition or agonizing struggle
burnish
windfall
throes
bulbous
27. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
flume
lull
sequester
utmost
28. Waste matter - something of no value
primordial
wry
coherent
dross
29. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
avert
dilapidated
coherent
provincialize
30. To blend together
fret
scrubby
resuscitate
coalesce
31. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
hull
presumptuous
ancestral
utmost
32. Misguided and stubborn
skinflint
wrongheaded
fluke
garish
33. To soothe or quiet
lull
utmost
garish
internalize
34. Shining bright
rendition
pristine
radiant
avaricious
35. To revive from death or unconsciousness
ancestral
unravel
scrutinize
resuscitate
36. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
sacrilegious
burnish
annealing
noncommittal
37. Strengthening or hardening
coherent
annealing
wrongheaded
mediation
38. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
gambit
fret
nettle
resuscitate
39. Willing to receive suggestions
receptive
forlorn
titter
propensity
40. Unexpected gain
frazzled
avert
windfall
dispossessed
41. To spread with liquid - color - or light
overweening
fret
suffuse
primordial
42. Full of complaints
titter
querulous
burnish
garish
43. Suited to the purpose or occasion
gambit
throes
modulation
apt
44. Not revealing what one thinks
ogle
frazzled
noncommittal
coherent
45. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
gambit
admonition
sequester
titter
46. Regulating or toning down
utmost
titter
modulation
dispossessed
47. Incapable of being explained
annealing
inexplicable
propensity
haltingly
48. Descending from ancestors
forlorn
modulation
internalize
ancestral
49. Bitterly amusing
wry
ancestral
avaricious
garish
50. A translation or interpretation
prissy
gambit
rendition
ancestral