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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. Not revealing what one thinks
utmost
torpor
receptive
noncommittal
2. To spread with liquid - color - or light
avaricious
sprawl
suffuse
pristine
3. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
paradox
titter
presumptuous
jangle
4. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
querulous
inexplicable
hull
noncommittal
5. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
prissy
clairvoyant
flume
fret
6. To blend together
flume
haltingly
querulous
coalesce
7. Coming after the expected time
fluke
belated
burnish
avocation
8. Unexpected gain
windfall
resuscitate
overweening
throes
9. Greedy
nettle
admonition
avaricious
rendition
10. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
flume
skinflint
wrongheaded
sprawl
11. Willing to receive suggestions
lull
hyperventilate
modulation
receptive
12. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
hyperventilate
frazzled
radiant
wry
13. Bitterly amusing
dispossessed
garish
wry
taper
14. To polish a surface by friction
annealing
mediation
burnish
lull
15. Basic - undeveloped
apt
ancestral
embryonic
lull
16. To revive from death or unconsciousness
belated
skinflint
resuscitate
haltingly
17. Logically connected
belated
ogle
fret
coherent
18. Misguided and stubborn
cerebral
provincialize
wrongheaded
dispossessed
19. Solitude or seclude
torrid
utmost
sequester
burnish
20. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
skinflint
sacrilegious
unravel
dispossessed
21. A gentle reprimand
haltingly
sequester
skinflint
admonition
22. Descending from ancestors
burnish
doctrine
ancestral
overweening
23. To feel or express worry - annoyance
resuscitate
fret
avert
querulous
24. A translation or interpretation
abiding
avocation
rendition
prissy
25. A tendency
presumptuous
dilapidated
windfall
propensity
26. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
uncannily
sacrilegious
gambit
abiding
27. To look at flirtatiously
nettle
ogle
dilapidated
windfall
28. To become more slender toward one end
dispossessed
utmost
taper
primordial
29. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
ancestral
nettle
scrubby
prissy
30. Full of complaints
utmost
querulous
resuscitate
mediation
31. Worn-out
dross
presumptuous
coalesce
frazzled
32. To soothe or quiet
tattered
lull
querulous
coalesce
33. Shabby - wretched
windfall
ancestral
sequester
scrubby
34. To laugh nervously
receptive
titter
fluke
ancestral
35. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
dilapidated
coalesce
laconic
presumptuous
36. Enduring steadfast
sequester
receptive
burnish
abiding
37. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
jangle
paradox
flume
vernacular
38. Hesitatingly
haltingly
tattered
internalize
uncannily
39. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
unravel
underpinnings
admonition
paradox
40. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
torpor
abiding
taper
flume
41. Strengthening or hardening
flume
presumptuous
underpinnings
annealing
42. Extraordinarily
uncannily
avaricious
internalize
laconic
43. Incapable of being explained
coalesce
inexplicable
primordial
uncannily
44. A foundation or basis
uncannily
wry
underpinnings
reverberation
45. The standard native language of a country
torpor
vernacular
inexplicable
lull
46. Oppressively hot
apt
torrid
frazzled
embryonic
47. To cause to become irritated or upset
paradox
internalize
coherent
jangle
48. Waste matter - something of no value
annealing
dross
reverberation
windfall
49. Shining bright
lull
scrubby
radiant
uncannily
50. A pleasure or hobby
avocation
embryonic
propensity
primordial