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PCAT Vocab2
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Subjects
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pcat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Pretentious/showy; to impress
Disparage
Histrionic
Ostentatious
evanescent
2. Lack purpose/enthusiasm/direction
Pernicious
Indelible
Desultory
Magnanimous
3. Short simple song
Reticent
Quintessence
Diatribe
Ditty
4. Extremely foolish or stupid
Sedate
Asinine
Soporific
Trowel
5. Act angrily or defensively
Obsequious
Subjective
Bristle
Candid
6. Deviate from standard/normal
Anomaly
Gauntlet
Balmy
Pier
7. Wordy (fewer would do)
Boorish
Circumlocution
Corpulent
Hone
8. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Anathema
Giddy
Ascetic
Diatribe
9. Schemer/fisherman
Ingenious
Angler
Silo
Titillate
10. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Pernicious
Tractable
Bland
lope
11. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
Ingenious
Inadvertent
lope
serendipity
12. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Petulant
Cabal
Troupe
Paregoric
13. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Cavalcade
Lariat
Rancid
succinct
14. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Surreptitious
Consternation
Sedate
Abate
15. Noisy disturbance or quarrel
Conducive
Fracas
Lax
Hone
16. Generous/munificent/forgive
Continent
Ingenious
Captious
Magnanimous
17. Express disapproval; reprove
Continent
Reprimand
Spurn
Reprieve
18. Uselessness; pointless
Discombobulate
Malady
obverse
Futility
19. Not having life.
Gluttony
Pejorative
inanimate
Tenuous
20. Used by ordinary people; secular
Demotic
Mellifluous
Infringe
Placebo
21. Not sufficiently skillful
Fickle
Incompetent
Pedant
Circumlocution
22. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Banal
pariah
Blight
Malady
23. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Ardent
Tenuous
Bristle
Scant
24. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Skirmish
Coffer
Exorbitant
invidious
25. Member of a band
Amulet
Brigand
Unanimous
Fulminate
26. Speak slowly
Ennui
Strident
Scion
drawl
27. Contributing/helping towards
Conducive
Reticent
bellicose
Append
28. Become less intense/widespread
Exonerate
Perfunctory
Abate
Spurn
29. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Sedate
Pert
Exonerate
ostracism
30. Assign inferior rank to
Frivolous
Relegate
Insipid
Indolent
31. A mischievous person
Semantic
Relegate
Cavalcade
Rapscallion
32. Item of food; something eaten
Confluence
Brigand
Comestible
Gluttony
33. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
Sterile
Promulgate
Inundate
masochist
34. Pretending shyness or modesty
Coy
Dandy
Assiduous
Ingenious
35. Container storing valuables
Captious
Fluster
Coffer
laconic - spartan
36. Confuse
lucidity
Codicil
Abhor
Discombobulate
37. Stubborn to change one's mind
Demoralize
Obstinate
naïvete
Bungler
38. Naive(artless - ingenuous) remark or action.
sybaritic
naïvete
Dogmatic
obverse
39. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Candid
Gaudy
Peal
Discombobulate
40. Lover (against marriage)
Paramour
Discreet
Raucous
Solace
41. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Corpulent
cavalier
Anathema
Ingenious
42. Written message (diplomacy)
Gluttony
Giddy
Memorandum
Semantic
43. Stubborn (like a mule)
Indelible
Mulish
Begrudge
Garish
44. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Ruse
Asinine
Scowl
Imbue
45. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
cogent
Pervasive
revered
Trowel
46. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Dour
Reprimand
inanimate
Fickle
47. Impossible to stop or prevent
Scant
naïvete
seraphic
Inexorable
48. Hard to control/deal with
Derision
Remission
Intractable
Ethereal
49. Placate by acceding their demands
Plethora
Demotic
Appease
Mendacity
50. Criticize sharply
Pejorative
Extol
trite
Rebuke