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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. Using few words
resuscitate
belated
haltingly
laconic
2. Original beginning
admonition
primordial
throes
scrutinize
3. Misguided and stubborn
noncommittal
wrongheaded
sprawl
dilapidated
4. A foundation or basis
cerebral
underpinnings
avocation
frazzled
5. Not revealing what one thinks
coherent
torrid
paradox
noncommittal
6. To solve or make clear
provincialize
frazzled
querulous
unravel
7. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
coherent
skinflint
cerebral
utmost
8. To spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
uncannily
fluke
avaricious
9. Descending from ancestors
ancestral
burnish
garish
throes
10. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
presumptuous
bulbous
sprawl
frazzled
11. A translation or interpretation
burnish
rendition
skinflint
scrutinize
12. Enduring steadfast
abiding
unravel
scrubby
receptive
13. Uncorrupted or unsullied
uncannily
pristine
gambit
suffuse
14. To become more slender toward one end
jangle
flume
titter
taper
15. Ragged - torn
avaricious
tattered
burnish
taper
16. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
vernacular
torpor
clairvoyant
provincialize
17. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
gambit
taper
wrongheaded
fluke
18. Oppressively hot
flume
burnish
reverberation
torrid
19. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
jangle
laconic
fret
mediation
20. Full of complaints
underpinnings
utmost
querulous
gambit
21. Coming after the expected time
belated
internalize
resuscitate
laconic
22. Logically connected
gambit
titter
internalize
coherent
23. A tendency
propensity
lull
overweening
frazzled
24. Bitterly amusing
sprawl
sequester
abiding
wry
25. Worn-out
modulation
frazzled
avaricious
ancestral
26. To revive from death or unconsciousness
resuscitate
coalesce
flume
hyperventilate
27. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
uncannily
paradox
ogle
pristine
28. Of the greatest degree or quality
utmost
rendition
fret
laconic
29. The standard native language of a country
sacrilegious
vernacular
reverberation
noncommittal
30. A pleasure or hobby
modulation
dispossessed
dilapidated
avocation
31. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
laconic
mediation
vernacular
hyperventilate
32. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
wrongheaded
hyperventilate
internalize
vernacular
33. Prim or proper
cerebral
prissy
annealing
hyperventilate
34. An accidental advantage
fluke
burnish
coherent
torpor
35. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
apt
avert
flume
noncommittal
36. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
abiding
noncommittal
burnish
clairvoyant
37. Shabby - wretched
scrubby
skinflint
annealing
modulation
38. To soothe or quiet
modulation
suffuse
lull
sacrilegious
39. Suited to the purpose or occasion
apt
avocation
mediation
scrutinize
40. Hesitatingly
vernacular
taper
paradox
haltingly
41. Extraordinarily
torpor
uncannily
scrutinize
suffuse
42. Waste matter - something of no value
skinflint
dross
resuscitate
haltingly
43. Shining bright
gambit
coherent
ancestral
radiant
44. Regulating or toning down
modulation
embryonic
hull
garish
45. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
hull
frazzled
sacrilegious
utmost
46. To blend together
avocation
coalesce
clairvoyant
pristine
47. Unexpected gain
ancestral
windfall
fluke
dilapidated
48. Willing to receive suggestions
receptive
frazzled
primordial
throes
49. Incapable of being explained
inexplicable
burnish
utmost
tattered
50. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
torpor
cerebral
hyperventilate
nettle