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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. Bitterly amusing
wry
gambit
coalesce
dilapidated
2. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
unravel
windfall
lull
hull
3. Enduring steadfast
abiding
rendition
sacrilegious
taper
4. A foundation or basis
bulbous
dross
ancestral
underpinnings
5. Oppressively hot
avaricious
torrid
coalesce
hyperventilate
6. Incapable of being explained
inexplicable
sacrilegious
scrubby
laconic
7. Possessions evicted
dispossessed
querulous
fret
overweening
8. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
coalesce
coherent
presumptuous
garish
9. Logically connected
coherent
torrid
fluke
reverberation
10. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
flume
tattered
internalize
abiding
11. The standard native language of a country
vernacular
radiant
fluke
abiding
12. To look at flirtatiously
ogle
bulbous
coalesce
receptive
13. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
ancestral
dilapidated
wry
dross
14. To soothe or quiet
scrutinize
gambit
overweening
lull
15. A translation or interpretation
avaricious
haltingly
rendition
dilapidated
16. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
haltingly
sprawl
scrubby
unravel
17. To solve or make clear
unravel
frazzled
throes
scrubby
18. Solitude or seclude
sequester
primordial
apt
presumptuous
19. To blend together
tattered
coalesce
suffuse
hull
20. Basic - undeveloped
torpor
abiding
coherent
embryonic
21. Not revealing what one thinks
noncommittal
scrutinize
flume
tattered
22. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
cerebral
resuscitate
tattered
avert
23. Worn-out
frazzled
fluke
ancestral
wry
24. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
gambit
receptive
avaricious
nettle
25. A tendency
propensity
avaricious
burnish
rendition
26. Tastelessly showy
dilapidated
utmost
vernacular
garish
27. Using few words
doctrine
laconic
lull
reverberation
28. Unhappy or miserable
haltingly
skinflint
windfall
forlorn
29. Uncorrupted or unsullied
pristine
belated
wry
querulous
30. To polish a surface by friction
paradox
burnish
tattered
querulous
31. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
frazzled
paradox
scrubby
hyperventilate
32. A condition or agonizing struggle
torpor
burnish
throes
sprawl
33. Hesitatingly
frazzled
annealing
haltingly
titter
34. Strengthening or hardening
garish
torrid
annealing
sequester
35. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
apt
propensity
abiding
internalize
36. To become more slender toward one end
taper
prissy
scrubby
underpinnings
37. To turn away or aside
avert
nettle
uncannily
hyperventilate
38. To spread with liquid - color - or light
burnish
annealing
overweening
suffuse
39. To examine in detail
nettle
embryonic
paradox
scrutinize
40. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
avocation
clairvoyant
provincialize
gambit
41. To laugh nervously
avaricious
titter
windfall
vernacular
42. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
coalesce
pristine
skinflint
overweening
43. Unexpected gain
windfall
embryonic
overweening
receptive
44. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
sprawl
throes
torpor
overweening
45. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
sacrilegious
jangle
titter
reverberation
46. Ragged - torn
tattered
dispossessed
forlorn
coalesce
47. Prim or proper
hull
titter
prissy
mediation
48. A gentle reprimand
coalesce
dispossessed
admonition
rendition
49. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
doctrine
noncommittal
provincialize
hyperventilate
50. Coming after the expected time
mediation
utmost
nettle
belated