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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. To turn away or aside
skinflint
avert
vernacular
cerebral
2. Waste matter - something of no value
underpinnings
dross
frazzled
tattered
3. Suited to the purpose or occasion
apt
torpor
jangle
haltingly
4. To revive from death or unconsciousness
hyperventilate
forlorn
resuscitate
clairvoyant
5. A particular principle - position - or policy taught or advocated - as of a religion or government
doctrine
scrutinize
paradox
wry
6. A translation or interpretation
prissy
ancestral
rendition
ogle
7. Logically connected
frazzled
fret
receptive
coherent
8. Tastelessly showy
garish
resuscitate
querulous
noncommittal
9. Ragged - torn
scrubby
tattered
uncannily
hyperventilate
10. The persistence of sound after the source has stopped
annealing
underpinnings
reverberation
embryonic
11. Betraying the use of intellect rather than intuition
scrubby
taper
sacrilegious
cerebral
12. To blend together
avaricious
overweening
coalesce
scrubby
13. An accidental advantage
coherent
rendition
lull
fluke
14. Incapable of being explained
inexplicable
flume
prissy
gambit
15. A statement that seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth
provincialize
wry
paradox
burnish
16. To take in and make personal ones attitudes or beliefs
torrid
internalize
receptive
wrongheaded
17. A pleasure or hobby
fluke
internalize
doctrine
avocation
18. To make unsophisticated or unfashionable
provincialize
coherent
ogle
taper
19. Regulating or toning down
modulation
overweening
bulbous
uncannily
20. Solitude or seclude
avert
sequester
forlorn
hyperventilate
21. Basic - undeveloped
fluke
hull
embryonic
coalesce
22. An opening move in which a player in a game seeks to obtain some advantage
gambit
prissy
ogle
paradox
23. Grossly irreverent toward what is sacred
avocation
sacrilegious
rendition
embryonic
24. Original beginning
avaricious
primordial
bulbous
titter
25. Having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range or natural vision
clairvoyant
modulation
wrongheaded
torpor
26. Of the greatest degree or quality
utmost
doctrine
torpor
gambit
27. A gentle reprimand
clairvoyant
receptive
admonition
apt
28. To irritate - annoy - or provoke
presumptuous
dilapidated
nettle
radiant
29. An attempt of a peaceful settlement through a third party
resuscitate
mediation
tattered
doctrine
30. Arrogantly assuming knowledge of what is or what is to come
utmost
taper
sacrilegious
presumptuous
31. Shabby - wretched
scrubby
abiding
reverberation
scrutinize
32. Someone who doesnt want to spend money
dross
skinflint
modulation
torpor
33. The standard native language of a country
scrutinize
throes
vernacular
embryonic
34. Strengthening or hardening
frazzled
hyperventilate
annealing
coalesce
35. A tendency
throes
propensity
bulbous
doctrine
36. To look at flirtatiously
primordial
provincialize
scrubby
ogle
37. To polish a surface by friction
burnish
titter
ancestral
belated
38. To solve or make clear
unravel
torrid
lull
querulous
39. Worn-out
ogle
frazzled
clairvoyant
dross
40. To laugh nervously
propensity
titter
avaricious
vernacular
41. Descending from ancestors
rendition
vernacular
ancestral
reverberation
42. Any covering or envelope as a seed or fruit
unravel
hull
avert
dilapidated
43. Fallen into partial ruin or decay
abiding
clairvoyant
burnish
dilapidated
44. Prim or proper
vernacular
prissy
admonition
jangle
45. Misguided and stubborn
wrongheaded
ogle
ancestral
taper
46. To cause to become irritated or upset
clairvoyant
radiant
jangle
paradox
47. Bitterly amusing
primordial
wry
avocation
torpor
48. A foundation or basis
fret
underpinnings
lull
modulation
49. Sluggish inactivity or inertia
fret
torpor
throes
reverberation
50. A condition or agonizing struggle
throes
windfall
underpinnings
uncannily