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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. Bitterly amusing
wry
hyperventilate
radiant
avaricious
2. Coming after the expected time
belated
haltingly
forlorn
clairvoyant
3. To feel or express worry - annoyance
abiding
dispossessed
fret
wrongheaded
4. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
overweening
frazzled
primordial
flume
5. To examine in detail
throes
annealing
scrutinize
pristine
6. Descending from ancestors
bulbous
uncannily
ancestral
fret
7. Solitude or seclude
hyperventilate
reverberation
jangle
sequester
8. An accidental advantage
flume
fluke
apt
unravel
9. Possessions evicted
unravel
ancestral
vernacular
dispossessed
10. Ragged - torn
tattered
receptive
admonition
apt
11. A foundation or basis
underpinnings
tattered
dilapidated
dross
12. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
cerebral
torrid
dilapidated
avaricious
13. Suited to the purpose or occasion
frazzled
apt
cerebral
radiant
14. Tastelessly showy
primordial
garish
gambit
scrutinize
15. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
frazzled
ogle
noncommittal
cerebral
16. To cause to become irritated or upset
windfall
sprawl
jangle
gambit
17. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
fret
avert
reverberation
lull
18. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
underpinnings
annealing
sacrilegious
primordial
19. Basic - undeveloped
noncommittal
doctrine
embryonic
rendition
20. Oppressively hot
sacrilegious
paradox
dross
torrid
21. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
radiant
embryonic
nettle
dispossessed
22. Misguided and stubborn
admonition
wrongheaded
utmost
tattered
23. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
fluke
sequester
skinflint
resuscitate
24. Hesitatingly
avaricious
inexplicable
haltingly
dispossessed
25. Greedy
avaricious
windfall
bulbous
ancestral
26. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
avocation
internalize
underpinnings
paradox
27. To polish a surface by friction
pristine
hull
burnish
scrubby
28. Using few words
tattered
noncommittal
laconic
hull
29. Shining bright
ogle
embryonic
radiant
resuscitate
30. The standard native language of a country
vernacular
forlorn
wrongheaded
fluke
31. To become more slender toward one end
coalesce
taper
flume
inexplicable
32. To spread with liquid - color - or light
taper
fluke
ogle
suffuse
33. A gentle reprimand
querulous
garish
uncannily
admonition
34. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
sacrilegious
sequester
paradox
hyperventilate
35. Unhappy or miserable
wrongheaded
lull
coherent
forlorn
36. Unexpected gain
overweening
jangle
windfall
annealing
37. Worn-out
laconic
frazzled
annealing
avocation
38. Not revealing what one thinks
noncommittal
coherent
scrubby
unravel
39. Waste matter - something of no value
dross
flume
ogle
apt
40. Strengthening or hardening
nettle
annealing
admonition
reverberation
41. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
lull
avocation
fluke
internalize
42. Original beginning
skinflint
primordial
avaricious
torrid
43. Enduring steadfast
noncommittal
pristine
primordial
abiding
44. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
doctrine
provincialize
cerebral
flume
45. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
sequester
overweening
modulation
torpor
46. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
noncommittal
fluke
avert
provincialize
47. Prim or proper
inexplicable
wry
coherent
prissy
48. Uncorrupted or unsullied
admonition
torpor
haltingly
pristine
49. A tendency
resuscitate
embryonic
propensity
sprawl
50. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
nettle
hull
gambit
wry