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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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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. Deceptive/deceitful
Gluttony
Duplicitous
Rebuke
aridity
2. Not sufficiently skillful
Dour
Incompetent
Infirmary
Mulish
3. Tall tower used to store grain
chimerical
Extirpate
Amulet
Silo
4. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
Allay
Amalgamate
Inane
Mendicant
5. Represent as little worth; scorn
Indignation
drawl
Paregoric
Disparage
6. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Sanctuary
cherubic
Cavalcade
agnostic
7. Resign/give up
Abdicate
Predilection
Felicity
Clamor
8. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Bungler
Dilettante
Booty
Sanctuary
9. Great enthusiasm/passion
Ardor
Flounder
Demure
Euphoric
10. Mournful/sad/dismay
Banal
Lugubrious
Hoard
apocryphal
11. Express vehement protest
Fulminate
Innocuous
Pusillanimous
Discordant
12. Generous/munificent/forgive
evanescent
Angler
aridity
Magnanimous
13. Dizzy
Giddy
Tenuous
Unanimous
Depot
14. Informal private conversation
polemic
drawl
Pier
Confab
15. Lack courage dastard (coward)
Demoralize
Pusillanimous
Quarry
Acclimate
16. Disease or ailment
Imperative
Petulant
Malady
Innocuous
17. Descendant (notable - long family)
Scion
Petulant
Pedant
Rapscallion
18. Formally display sorrow
succinct
Errant
Elegy
Scowl
19. House/repair airplanes
seraphic
Effervescent
Amalgamate
hangar
20. Favorable
Anomaly
Impart
Auspicious
Gluttony
21. Flood/large amount of water
Quintessence
Entomology
Pedestrian
Inundate
22. Self-resistant (sexually)
Continent
Ditty
meretricious
Gluttony
23. Young horse
Subjective
foal
Eulogy
Dolorous
24. Silly (lacking sense)
Mendicant
Inane
Scion
Slake
25. Hard to control/deal with
Supplant
Discreet
Desultory
Intractable
26. Preference/special liking for
Perjury
Predilection
Audacious
filibuster
27. Spread (i.e something unwelcome)
drawl
Pervasive
Pedant
Fortuitous
28. Angel (light and purity)
posh
Soporific
Seraphic
lope
29. Stubborn to change one's mind
Spindle
Obstinate
Denude
Ennui
30. Medicinal extract.
Circuitous
belladonna
Amulet
Incompetent
31. Express disapproval in action
chimerical
belligerent
Reproach
Pugilist
32. Offering nothing challenging
demagogue
Vapid
Jibe
Balmy
33. Extreme happiness/elated
Euphoric
Avarice
Assiduous
Frivolous
34. Fully in agreement
Contempt
sanguine
Avarice
Unanimous
35. Steady earnest effort
Imbue
diligence
Perturb
Infringe
36. Before the war
Confab
apocryphal
Languish
antebellum
37. Of a subject - obscure
Pier
Recondite
Scrutiny
Intrepid
38. Container storing valuables
panegyric
Coffer
Moratorium
Hackneyed
39. Outcast
Imbue
Vapid
maudlin
pariah
40. Critical observation/examination
Circumlocution
Frivolous
Scrutiny
revered
41. Untruthful
Pusillanimous
Inadvertent
Reprimand
Mendacity
42. Relate to meaning in language/logic
Admonition
Semantic
Gaunt
Errant
43. Have no serious purpose/value
Inexorable
Moratorium
Poignant
Frivolous
44. Apathy or sluggishness
Demure
Raucous
phlegmatic
Snare
45. Barren; fruitless
Demure
cynicism
Sterile
Ostentatious
46. Rope used as a lasso
apocryphal
Conflagration
Lariat
Cynical
47. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Eulogy
Blight
Memorandum
Perjury
48. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Banal
Demoralize
Perturb
Apprehensive
49. Strongly encourage or urge to do
Castigate
Remission
Exhort
Pedant
50. Unoriginal; commonplace
Banal
Depot
Asinine
Abstruse