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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. Unhappy or miserable
torpor
throes
forlorn
primordial
2. To soothe or quiet
wrongheaded
laconic
fret
lull
3. Full of complaints
garish
sprawl
noncommittal
querulous
4. Incapable of being explained
forlorn
belated
inexplicable
nettle
5. Ragged - torn
provincialize
tattered
coherent
utmost
6. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
frazzled
mediation
pristine
doctrine
7. Uncorrupted or unsullied
embryonic
cerebral
pristine
noncommittal
8. To blend together
internalize
annealing
haltingly
coalesce
9. Coming after the expected time
cerebral
pristine
belated
lull
10. Regulating or toning down
utmost
haltingly
tattered
modulation
11. Worn-out
apt
frazzled
admonition
haltingly
12. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
jangle
avaricious
lull
presumptuous
13. To polish a surface by friction
overweening
burnish
suffuse
reverberation
14. A condition or agonizing struggle
throes
radiant
bulbous
wrongheaded
15. The standard native language of a country
gambit
frazzled
vernacular
doctrine
16. A gentle reprimand
admonition
coherent
apt
wry
17. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
resuscitate
noncommittal
ogle
internalize
18. Greedy
vernacular
pristine
avaricious
tattered
19. Bitterly amusing
avocation
propensity
radiant
wry
20. Logically connected
wrongheaded
scrubby
coherent
torpor
21. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
annealing
receptive
vernacular
hull
22. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
haltingly
presumptuous
rendition
hyperventilate
23. To solve or make clear
dilapidated
wry
unravel
dispossessed
24. Oppressively hot
wry
forlorn
garish
torrid
25. To spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
rendition
laconic
ogle
26. Possessions evicted
overweening
dispossessed
internalize
apt
27. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
cerebral
avocation
admonition
receptive
28. Misguided and stubborn
hull
wrongheaded
tattered
avocation
29. Extraordinarily
uncannily
prissy
taper
belated
30. Willing to receive suggestions
haltingly
ancestral
hull
receptive
31. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
cerebral
modulation
wrongheaded
flume
32. To feel or express worry - annoyance
tattered
jangle
fret
modulation
33. To become more slender toward one end
uncannily
noncommittal
taper
reverberation
34. A translation or interpretation
inexplicable
fret
suffuse
rendition
35. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
paradox
scrubby
nettle
pristine
36. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
unravel
mediation
coalesce
dilapidated
37. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
skinflint
burnish
fluke
rendition
38. Of the greatest degree or quality
utmost
gambit
throes
suffuse
39. Tastelessly showy
clairvoyant
embryonic
garish
scrubby
40. Prim or proper
underpinnings
prissy
reverberation
noncommittal
41. Shabby - wretched
garish
avocation
scrubby
dilapidated
42. A foundation or basis
pristine
coherent
underpinnings
scrutinize
43. To revive from death or unconsciousness
hull
taper
reverberation
resuscitate
44. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
dilapidated
nettle
dispossessed
provincialize
45. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
receptive
avaricious
overweening
belated
46. Solitude or seclude
sequester
forlorn
jangle
scrutinize
47. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
taper
uncannily
avert
sacrilegious
48. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
windfall
overweening
clairvoyant
gambit
49. Unexpected gain
laconic
forlorn
ancestral
windfall
50. To laugh nervously
titter
mediation
scrubby
lull