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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. Young horse
Paucity
Coalesce
foal
Expedient
2. Impossible to stop or prevent
seraphic
Perfidious
Inexorable
Paregoric
3. Cancel or take back
Spurn
Rescind
Pail
Eminence
4. Loud ringing of bells
Candid
Anathema
Peal
Hedonist
5. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
invidious
Admonition
Discreet
quixotic
6. Lying under oath
Perjury
Gauntlet
Smug
Ruse
7. Acknowledged superiority in
bellicose
Revue
Enamel
Eminence
8. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
demagogue
Denude
Memorandum
Circumlocution
9. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Discordant
lope
Dulcet
Subjective
10. Relieve/end fear/pain/concern
Miscreant
Allay
hangar
Profligate
11. Depression of spirits
Brackish
melancholy
Consternation
laconic - spartan
12. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Supplant
aridity
Gluttony
Rancid
13. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Pilfer
Ardent
Pejorative
Tenuous
14. One living in solitude (religious)
Hermit
Cynical
Ennui
Exonerate
15. Belief of something/one is useless
Austere
trite
Contempt
Inadvertent
16. Fake substitute for a drug
choleric
Innocuous
Placebo
Elegy
17. A lover of luxury.
Begrudge
sybaritic
Impertinent
polemic
18. Man concern with stylish looks
Dandy
Paragon
Lackey
Histrionic
19. Make (something bad) worse
Elegy
Blight
Malady
Exacerbate
20. Boxer
Gauntlet
Pugilist
Balmy
Mendacity
21. Become less intense/widespread
Abate
Consternation
Miscreant
Dilettante
22. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
meretricious
Rapscallion
Cavalcade
Histrionic
23. Greatly honored.
Plethora
Bland
evanescent
revered
24. Overly theatrical
Histrionic
Demotic
Abate
sybaritic
25. Not having life.
Moratorium
Giddy
Mellifluous
inanimate
26. Sew
Pilfer
Chicanery
Lackey
Embroider
27. Country of one's permanent stay
sanguine
Extirpate
Domicile
Balmy
28. Express vehement protest
Fulminate
Elegy
Spurn
Apex
29. Act angrily or defensively
Dogmatic
Bristle
Tractable
Perjury
30. Insanity
Lunacy
Anodyne
Infringe
Inadvertent
31. Valuable stolen goods
Inadvertent
Profusion
Pusillanimous
Booty
32. Addition to a will
Valor
Codicil
Ditty
Disparage
33. Contributing/helping towards
Allay
Conducive
Relegate
quixotic
34. A public expression of approval
panegyric
Pier
Paramour
Hackneyed
35. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Quintessence
Derision
Malady
Amulet
36. Abusive/highly critical language
Invective
quixotic
Entomology
Pusillanimous
37. Formally display sorrow
Elegy
Spindle
Appease
Eschew
38. Large amount of something; myriad
Profusion
Surreptitious
Sedate
Skirmish
39. Lack courage dastard (coward)
Pusillanimous
hangar
Abate
Garish
40. Noisy disturbance or quarrel
Gauntlet
Ditty
Fracas
Quant
41. Generous/munificent/forgive
Magnanimous
stoic
chastened
Miscreant
42. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Exorbitant
Surreptitious
Circuitous
Mellifluous
43. Express disapproval; reprove
Fracas
Incompetent
Consummate
Reprimand
44. Short simple song
Euphoric
Hackneyed
Ditty
Contempt
45. Part of a suit
Tame
evanescent
Lapel
Ire
46. Grow weak/feeble
Paucity
Disparage
apocryphal
Languish
47. Not canonical (accepted principle esp in church).
Connoisseur
apocryphal
Regression
Pejorative
48. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
Subjective
Dissolute
Anomaly
Lax
49. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
Pensive
Derision
Demeanor
Repugnant
50. Dizzy
Pert
Semantic
Giddy
Allay