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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. A gentle reprimand
avocation
paradox
admonition
querulous
2. To look at flirtatiously
ogle
primordial
pristine
provincialize
3. Ragged - torn
torpor
tattered
sprawl
nettle
4. Willing to receive suggestions
receptive
propensity
overweening
sequester
5. Descending from ancestors
wry
underpinnings
ancestral
fret
6. Prim or proper
abiding
prissy
gambit
internalize
7. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
burnish
presumptuous
rendition
ancestral
8. Greedy
bulbous
rendition
avaricious
underpinnings
9. Hesitatingly
modulation
haltingly
sprawl
sequester
10. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
forlorn
primordial
hull
provincialize
11. Bitterly amusing
garish
wry
ogle
coalesce
12. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
internalize
cerebral
presumptuous
wry
13. To feel or express worry - annoyance
belated
reverberation
abiding
fret
14. Unexpected gain
torrid
windfall
fret
overweening
15. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
forlorn
pristine
nettle
tattered
16. An accidental advantage
hull
fluke
utmost
wry
17. Regulating or toning down
presumptuous
dilapidated
modulation
provincialize
18. To solve or make clear
unravel
annealing
burnish
scrutinize
19. Waste matter - something of no value
querulous
avocation
dross
wry
20. Bulging
resuscitate
pristine
bulbous
hyperventilate
21. To laugh nervously
pristine
bulbous
avaricious
titter
22. Misguided and stubborn
avert
wrongheaded
unravel
throes
23. The standard native language of a country
belated
vernacular
provincialize
windfall
24. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
scrubby
coherent
paradox
mediation
25. A pleasure or hobby
nettle
avocation
sprawl
suffuse
26. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
laconic
taper
underpinnings
hull
27. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
dilapidated
cerebral
embryonic
mediation
28. To polish a surface by friction
scrutinize
burnish
gambit
fluke
29. Shabby - wretched
bulbous
admonition
scrubby
vernacular
30. Coming after the expected time
utmost
vernacular
belated
resuscitate
31. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
sacrilegious
reverberation
doctrine
titter
32. Extraordinarily
avaricious
pristine
laconic
uncannily
33. To cause to become irritated or upset
annealing
taper
jangle
tattered
34. A foundation or basis
dispossessed
haltingly
fluke
underpinnings
35. Shining bright
radiant
wry
avert
gambit
36. Tastelessly showy
querulous
avaricious
avert
garish
37. Using few words
admonition
paradox
titter
laconic
38. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
laconic
dispossessed
reverberation
abiding
39. To become more slender toward one end
primordial
querulous
taper
resuscitate
40. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
noncommittal
embryonic
avaricious
mediation
41. Uncorrupted or unsullied
jangle
internalize
taper
pristine
42. Possessions evicted
dispossessed
bulbous
resuscitate
suffuse
43. Of the greatest degree or quality
utmost
tattered
laconic
titter
44. Full of complaints
garish
querulous
resuscitate
abiding
45. Not revealing what one thinks
noncommittal
hull
avocation
avaricious
46. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
gambit
wry
sacrilegious
tattered
47. To examine in detail
scrutinize
taper
noncommittal
pristine
48. A condition or agonizing struggle
scrutinize
gambit
throes
mediation
49. Oppressively hot
torrid
sprawl
hyperventilate
cerebral
50. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
tattered
hyperventilate
titter
bulbous