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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. To blend together
forlorn
coalesce
flume
uncannily
2. Original beginning
primordial
gambit
resuscitate
lull
3. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
vernacular
overweening
nettle
scrutinize
4. Descending from ancestors
propensity
sprawl
ancestral
taper
5. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
taper
jangle
mediation
dilapidated
6. Worn-out
frazzled
dross
dilapidated
scrutinize
7. Unexpected gain
windfall
avaricious
belated
dispossessed
8. Regulating or toning down
garish
uncannily
querulous
modulation
9. Bitterly amusing
hyperventilate
cerebral
wry
fluke
10. A tendency
unravel
scrubby
propensity
rendition
11. An accidental advantage
bulbous
fluke
provincialize
frazzled
12. Uncorrupted or unsullied
provincialize
annealing
avocation
pristine
13. Basic - undeveloped
provincialize
embryonic
abiding
internalize
14. Greedy
suffuse
taper
coalesce
avaricious
15. Suited to the purpose or occasion
reverberation
apt
wry
underpinnings
16. To turn away or aside
reverberation
embryonic
avert
dross
17. Logically connected
avaricious
annealing
coherent
haltingly
18. To spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
burnish
annealing
ancestral
19. Ragged - torn
scrutinize
paradox
tattered
presumptuous
20. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
coalesce
laconic
ancestral
reverberation
21. Full of complaints
burnish
querulous
inexplicable
avocation
22. To soothe or quiet
flume
sequester
laconic
lull
23. Bulging
throes
burnish
bulbous
paradox
24. Enduring steadfast
apt
abiding
vernacular
embryonic
25. The standard native language of a country
hull
gambit
vernacular
querulous
26. Not revealing what one thinks
avocation
sprawl
receptive
noncommittal
27. To laugh nervously
titter
noncommittal
ogle
lull
28. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
torpor
nettle
windfall
torrid
29. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
taper
provincialize
garish
avert
30. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
throes
lull
inexplicable
sprawl
31. To examine in detail
uncannily
gambit
avocation
scrutinize
32. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
dilapidated
presumptuous
primordial
apt
33. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
utmost
suffuse
internalize
bulbous
34. To polish a surface by friction
burnish
coherent
modulation
jangle
35. Extraordinarily
gambit
flume
uncannily
titter
36. A foundation or basis
underpinnings
embryonic
laconic
scrutinize
37. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
modulation
doctrine
fluke
noncommittal
38. Possessions evicted
dispossessed
gambit
querulous
avert
39. To become more slender toward one end
taper
forlorn
modulation
scrutinize
40. Willing to receive suggestions
titter
receptive
fluke
utmost
41. Oppressively hot
unravel
pristine
torrid
fluke
42. A translation or interpretation
scrubby
reverberation
coherent
rendition
43. To feel or express worry - annoyance
sequester
fret
prissy
provincialize
44. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
torpor
cerebral
apt
underpinnings
45. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
taper
dispossessed
skinflint
garish
46. To revive from death or unconsciousness
fluke
titter
resuscitate
torpor
47. A pleasure or hobby
hyperventilate
avaricious
unravel
avocation
48. Using few words
laconic
rendition
paradox
embryonic
49. Coming after the expected time
torrid
taper
belated
receptive
50. Shabby - wretched
radiant
scrubby
underpinnings
reverberation