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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
primordial
forlorn
burnish
presumptuous
2. Bitterly amusing
overweening
prissy
wry
haltingly
3. Bulging
dispossessed
primordial
vernacular
bulbous
4. To become more slender toward one end
taper
reverberation
gambit
scrutinize
5. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
forlorn
internalize
taper
overweening
6. To blend together
gambit
coalesce
inexplicable
internalize
7. Not revealing what one thinks
cerebral
embryonic
admonition
noncommittal
8. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
paradox
mediation
embryonic
throes
9. A condition or agonizing struggle
dilapidated
throes
scrubby
receptive
10. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
primordial
avert
sacrilegious
hyperventilate
11. The standard native language of a country
noncommittal
vernacular
lull
inexplicable
12. Worn-out
presumptuous
dilapidated
frazzled
ogle
13. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
sequester
nettle
fret
dilapidated
14. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
radiant
windfall
internalize
propensity
15. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
annealing
scrutinize
nettle
hull
16. Of the greatest degree or quality
fret
doctrine
utmost
sprawl
17. An accidental advantage
fluke
noncommittal
receptive
abiding
18. A translation or interpretation
rendition
cerebral
avert
scrutinize
19. A tendency
throes
clairvoyant
prissy
propensity
20. To cause to become irritated or upset
jangle
overweening
flume
forlorn
21. Greedy
skinflint
resuscitate
rendition
avaricious
22. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
resuscitate
gambit
primordial
pristine
23. A pleasure or hobby
avocation
scrubby
suffuse
abiding
24. Strengthening or hardening
annealing
resuscitate
coherent
flume
25. Logically connected
prissy
propensity
coherent
sprawl
26. Unexpected gain
ancestral
gambit
presumptuous
windfall
27. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
laconic
torpor
gambit
frazzled
28. A foundation or basis
ogle
underpinnings
haltingly
nettle
29. Hesitatingly
lull
propensity
internalize
haltingly
30. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
reverberation
provincialize
cerebral
uncannily
31. Incapable of being explained
dross
inexplicable
belated
primordial
32. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
hyperventilate
avocation
reverberation
paradox
33. Enduring steadfast
prissy
radiant
admonition
abiding
34. Original beginning
sprawl
unravel
hull
primordial
35. Prim or proper
hull
coherent
prissy
titter
36. To turn away or aside
avert
avocation
nettle
admonition
37. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
clairvoyant
suffuse
bulbous
reverberation
38. Shabby - wretched
scrubby
abiding
ancestral
belated
39. To solve or make clear
unravel
wry
querulous
resuscitate
40. To soothe or quiet
coalesce
receptive
throes
lull
41. Full of complaints
overweening
querulous
radiant
rendition
42. Uncorrupted or unsullied
jangle
pristine
primordial
underpinnings
43. Oppressively hot
torrid
nettle
sprawl
hyperventilate
44. Shining bright
radiant
burnish
forlorn
abiding
45. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
reverberation
abiding
hyperventilate
wrongheaded
46. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
cerebral
utmost
gambit
dilapidated
47. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
doctrine
suffuse
ogle
torrid
48. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
torrid
avert
querulous
sacrilegious
49. To look at flirtatiously
fluke
nettle
gambit
ogle
50. Regulating or toning down
belated
modulation
sacrilegious
laconic