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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. A gentle reprimand
taper
overweening
admonition
avaricious
2. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
provincialize
cerebral
jangle
wrongheaded
3. Suited to the purpose or occasion
underpinnings
apt
ancestral
hull
4. Willing to receive suggestions
skinflint
inexplicable
receptive
modulation
5. Of the greatest degree or quality
resuscitate
uncannily
utmost
abiding
6. To turn away or aside
dross
avert
skinflint
lull
7. Not revealing what one thinks
presumptuous
noncommittal
flume
modulation
8. Ragged - torn
dispossessed
tattered
underpinnings
titter
9. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
wrongheaded
mediation
fluke
frazzled
10. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
throes
ancestral
doctrine
ogle
11. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
titter
resuscitate
lull
torpor
12. To cause to become irritated or upset
laconic
ancestral
titter
jangle
13. Shining bright
radiant
titter
avocation
torpor
14. Conceited - overconfident - or proud
wry
overweening
rendition
apt
15. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
avaricious
prissy
scrutinize
reverberation
16. Uncorrupted or unsullied
reverberation
pristine
belated
dispossessed
17. To blend together
sequester
coalesce
embryonic
dross
18. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
windfall
sacrilegious
nettle
vernacular
19. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
embryonic
forlorn
burnish
paradox
20. Logically connected
laconic
doctrine
coherent
skinflint
21. Incapable of being explained
receptive
inexplicable
sacrilegious
avocation
22. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
hull
bulbous
sacrilegious
torpor
23. Bulging
sacrilegious
bulbous
coalesce
burnish
24. To polish a surface by friction
taper
jangle
burnish
cerebral
25. Waste matter - something of no value
embryonic
presumptuous
dross
nettle
26. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
garish
presumptuous
avaricious
suffuse
27. Greedy
avaricious
avocation
tattered
propensity
28. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
wry
unravel
gambit
haltingly
29. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
internalize
vernacular
fluke
coalesce
30. Original beginning
sacrilegious
provincialize
bulbous
primordial
31. To feel or express worry - annoyance
forlorn
fret
skinflint
torrid
32. A foundation or basis
coherent
titter
fluke
underpinnings
33. Descending from ancestors
belated
ancestral
titter
primordial
34. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
flume
annealing
scrubby
dilapidated
35. The standard native language of a country
uncannily
sacrilegious
resuscitate
vernacular
36. Unhappy or miserable
sacrilegious
frazzled
forlorn
abiding
37. Misguided and stubborn
noncommittal
wrongheaded
rendition
reverberation
38. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
frazzled
taper
dilapidated
reverberation
39. Shabby - wretched
scrubby
bulbous
avert
pristine
40. Regulating or toning down
burnish
garish
dispossessed
modulation
41. To look at flirtatiously
doctrine
ogle
coalesce
noncommittal
42. To spread with liquid - color - or light
dispossessed
receptive
suffuse
overweening
43. To examine in detail
scrutinize
belated
burnish
nettle
44. Oppressively hot
doctrine
rendition
torrid
reverberation
45. Hesitatingly
avocation
haltingly
sacrilegious
coherent
46. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
coalesce
dilapidated
hull
titter
47. An accidental advantage
utmost
fluke
reverberation
underpinnings
48. Worn-out
apt
frazzled
querulous
skinflint
49. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
suffuse
skinflint
jangle
forlorn
50. To laugh nervously
doctrine
clairvoyant
flume
titter