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PCAT Vocab2
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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. Not reveal thoughts/feelings easily
Troupe
Intrepid
Fulminate
Reticent
2. Lacking in freshness or originality.
hackneyed
Hedonist
Pusillanimous
Lithe
3. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Perjury
Mellifluous
Paregoric
Cavalcade
4. Bring together to form a whole
Anodyne
Coalesce
Inadvertent
Futility
5. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
quixotic
Quant
Gauntlet
Languish
6. Small amount of something; iota
Conducive
Paucity
Amenable
Rapscallion
7. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Cavalcade
Candid
Ubiquitous
Sanctuary
8. Regard with hatred
Demeanor
drawl
Abdicate
Abhor
9. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Avarice
Docile
Solace
Miscreant
10. Submissive
Docile
belladonna
choleric
Acquiesce
11. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Tirade
Hedonist
Imbue
Atelier
12. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Dandy
Blight
Ethereal
Stoical
13. Pretending shyness or modesty
Confluence
Coy
Captious
Codicil
14. Hard to control/deal with
posh
Intractable
Abate
perambulate
15. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Languish
Eulogy
invidious
Intrepid
16. Most noticeable; important
Banal
Paregoric
Plethora
Salient
17. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
Anachronism
quixotic
pariah
Munificent
18. Uselessness; pointless
Approbation
Futility
Paltry
Lunacy
19. Strict in manner; extremely simple
Consternation
Futility
Semantic
Austere
20. Showy (no value); prostitute.
cherubic
Pernicious
Ingenious
meretricious
21. Lover (against marriage)
Paramour
Discombobulate
Repugnant
Pedant
22. Dryness
barrenness
Exhort
Indolent
aridity
23. Deceptive/deceitful
Sedate
Cabal
Pier
Duplicitous
24. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Gluttony
Cynical
Downpour
Scowl
25. Beggar
Intrepid
Paregoric
Append
Mendicant
26. Violation of faith or loyalty
Pedagogy
Jibe
Banal
perfidy
27. Complaining in whining manner
Eschew
Corpulent
Consternation
Querulous
28. House/repair airplanes
hangar
Felicity
Ascetic
Confab
29. Complete happiness/ expressing
Virile
adulation
Felicity
Stoical
30. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Gaudy
Mellifluous
Amulet
Inadvertent
31. Promote/make widely known
Lunacy
Consummate
phlegmatic
Promulgate
32. Have no serious purpose/value
Reverence
Frivolous
Strident
Extol
33. Formally display sorrow
Strident
Auspicious
Elegy
Hermit
34. Lack harmony; conflicting
Pedestrian
Discordant
Futility
trite
35. Short simple song
Predilection
Ditty
Indelible
Chicanery
36. Outward behavior
Demeanor
Blight
Modicum
Exonerate
37. Group of entertainers who tour
Felicity
Reverence
Troupe
Pert
38. Express disapproval in action
Depot
Reproach
Spurn
inanimate
39. Barren; fruitless
Mulish
Sterile
perambulate
Smug
40. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Demoralize
Comestible
Anomaly
Ethereal
41. Slightly salty
Brackish
Querulous
Recondite
Dogmatic
42. Evoke keen sense of sadness/regret
Inane
Poignant
Eminence
Paragon
43. Accept passively (give in); accede
Acquiesce
Carouse
serendipity
Abdicate
44. Satisfy fully
Entomology
Extirpate
Inexorable
Sate (satiate)
45. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
cherubic
Libidinous
Entomology
Paucity
46. Loud/confused noise
apocryphal
Conducive
Clamor
Errant
47. Medicinal extract.
Atelier
Invective
belladonna
Kudos
48. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Rife
Recalcitrant
Histrionic
Surreptitious
49. Addition to a will
Placebo
Codicil
Vapid
Unanimous
50. Saying much in few words; brief.
Placebo
laconic - spartan
Pail
Impertinent