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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 laugh nervously
resuscitate
titter
taper
dross
2. Shining bright
throes
vernacular
radiant
fluke
3. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
dilapidated
flume
prissy
abiding
4. Bulging
fluke
gambit
taper
bulbous
5. To become more slender toward one end
resuscitate
taper
fret
abiding
6. Using few words
apt
rendition
laconic
dilapidated
7. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
doctrine
avert
sacrilegious
garish
8. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
underpinnings
haltingly
embryonic
reverberation
9. To soothe or quiet
dross
gambit
vernacular
lull
10. Unhappy or miserable
forlorn
garish
annealing
belated
11. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
overweening
garish
presumptuous
prissy
12. A foundation or basis
ogle
underpinnings
vernacular
presumptuous
13. Oppressively hot
bulbous
garish
torrid
hyperventilate
14. To look at flirtatiously
wry
prissy
propensity
ogle
15. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
torpor
cerebral
sequester
uncannily
16. Ragged - torn
dispossessed
wry
tattered
paradox
17. Incapable of being explained
scrubby
titter
inexplicable
presumptuous
18. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
mediation
dilapidated
rendition
nettle
19. Hesitatingly
provincialize
doctrine
clairvoyant
haltingly
20. Prim or proper
dispossessed
avert
throes
prissy
21. To revive from death or unconsciousness
scrubby
flume
resuscitate
tattered
22. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
resuscitate
modulation
abiding
sacrilegious
23. Suited to the purpose or occasion
radiant
ogle
presumptuous
apt
24. Coming after the expected time
belated
hyperventilate
embryonic
admonition
25. Waste matter - something of no value
pristine
nettle
taper
dross
26. Extraordinarily
uncannily
annealing
reverberation
radiant
27. A pleasure or hobby
bulbous
avocation
modulation
sequester
28. Misguided and stubborn
gambit
receptive
tattered
wrongheaded
29. Strengthening or hardening
lull
annealing
titter
wrongheaded
30. Regulating or toning down
resuscitate
sacrilegious
presumptuous
modulation
31. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
scrutinize
doctrine
sprawl
fluke
32. An accidental advantage
burnish
flume
gambit
fluke
33. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
sprawl
querulous
titter
internalize
34. To polish a surface by friction
nettle
flume
frazzled
burnish
35. A gentle reprimand
dross
uncannily
wry
admonition
36. To turn away or aside
avert
internalize
scrutinize
dilapidated
37. Full of complaints
utmost
scrutinize
querulous
titter
38. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
lull
ogle
dispossessed
gambit
39. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
wry
uncannily
cerebral
provincialize
40. To examine in detail
scrutinize
belated
suffuse
noncommittal
41. Basic - undeveloped
torpor
radiant
taper
embryonic
42. To spread with liquid - color - or light
dilapidated
primordial
suffuse
avaricious
43. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
lull
admonition
torpor
windfall
44. To feel or express worry - annoyance
fluke
fret
prissy
suffuse
45. To blend together
rendition
unravel
vernacular
coalesce
46. Solitude or seclude
flume
tattered
jangle
sequester
47. Descending from ancestors
haltingly
ancestral
pristine
avocation
48. Unexpected gain
belated
windfall
rendition
prissy
49. The standard native language of a country
vernacular
haltingly
overweening
ogle
50. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
coherent
wry
hull
hyperventilate