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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 spread with liquid - color - or light
suffuse
laconic
lull
taper
2. Oppressively hot
abiding
dross
querulous
torrid
3. A narrow gorge with a stream flowing through it
bulbous
utmost
flume
belated
4. Hesitatingly
hull
burnish
haltingly
cerebral
5. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
flume
tattered
unravel
gambit
6. Of the greatest degree or quality
hull
utmost
overweening
skinflint
7. The standard native language of a country
lull
vernacular
avocation
propensity
8. To solve or make clear
rendition
unravel
avert
avaricious
9. Prim or proper
bulbous
prissy
coalesce
wrongheaded
10. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
querulous
sacrilegious
cerebral
underpinnings
11. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
suffuse
radiant
windfall
hull
12. A condition or agonizing struggle
inexplicable
throes
utmost
skinflint
13. A gentle reprimand
doctrine
wry
gambit
admonition
14. Original beginning
mediation
primordial
titter
annealing
15. Shabby - wretched
scrubby
resuscitate
inexplicable
noncommittal
16. Strengthening or hardening
annealing
avert
dross
flume
17. Worn-out
windfall
wrongheaded
sequester
frazzled
18. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
clairvoyant
pristine
sequester
taper
19. A foundation or basis
frazzled
underpinnings
primordial
scrutinize
20. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
inexplicable
paradox
nettle
avaricious
21. Possessions evicted
dispossessed
vernacular
annealing
gambit
22. To turn away or aside
utmost
avert
mediation
primordial
23. Enduring steadfast
noncommittal
dross
coherent
abiding
24. To polish a surface by friction
querulous
lull
flume
burnish
25. To revive from death or unconsciousness
coherent
garish
resuscitate
apt
26. Using few words
laconic
coalesce
propensity
ogle
27. Misguided and stubborn
skinflint
ogle
wrongheaded
dilapidated
28. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
ogle
scrutinize
torpor
hull
29. To become more slender toward one end
sequester
scrubby
taper
throes
30. To sit or lie in a relaxed position
pristine
sprawl
provincialize
rendition
31. Ragged - torn
avaricious
tattered
hyperventilate
paradox
32. Extraordinarily
uncannily
rendition
modulation
coalesce
33. A pleasure or hobby
inexplicable
coalesce
wry
avocation
34. Uncorrupted or unsullied
pristine
forlorn
resuscitate
inexplicable
35. Waste matter - something of no value
cerebral
nettle
dross
torpor
36. To breathe abnormally fast and deep
coalesce
querulous
hyperventilate
scrutinize
37. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
doctrine
jangle
provincialize
torpor
38. Coming after the expected time
prissy
utmost
receptive
belated
39. Logically connected
coherent
laconic
cerebral
fret
40. To cause to become irritated or upset
avaricious
rendition
sacrilegious
jangle
41. Unhappy or miserable
jangle
dispossessed
resuscitate
forlorn
42. To examine in detail
lull
underpinnings
suffuse
scrutinize
43. Full of complaints
avocation
suffuse
querulous
ancestral
44. Suited to the purpose or occasion
primordial
burnish
lull
apt
45. Tastelessly showy
garish
propensity
unravel
burnish
46. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
dispossessed
overweening
wrongheaded
internalize
47. To look at flirtatiously
ogle
jangle
uncannily
sacrilegious
48. To soothe or quiet
overweening
noncommittal
fret
lull
49. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
mediation
nettle
dilapidated
sequester
50. Not revealing what one thinks
avaricious
noncommittal
presumptuous
abiding