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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. Strict in manner; extremely simple
Boorish
Pernicious
Austere
Placebo
2. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Malady
Flounder
Tenuous
Domicile
3. Contributing/helping towards
Lunacy
Inundate
Conducive
melancholy
4. An episode of irregular fighting
antebellum
Intrepid
Recalcitrant
Skirmish
5. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
polemic
Promulgate
invidious
Carouse
6. Lacking flavor
Chicanery
Blight
Insipid
Exonerate
7. Excessive in eating
Gluttony
Cabal
Derision
Coy
8. Praise and honor
Banal
Kudos
perfidy
Embroider
9. Outward behavior
Demeanor
Ennui
Perfunctory
Paragon
10. A public expression of approval
choleric
Perfidious
Gluttony
panegyric
11. Comfort; consolation times of distress
Petulant
Derision
Gaudy
Solace
12. Like a knight; proud or careless.
cavalier
Anachronism
Booty
Gauntlet
13. Temporary prohibition of activity
Moratorium
Pedant
Abstruse
Contempt
14. Zenith - pinnacle - highest
Continent
Captious
Indelible
Apex
15. Add to end of a document
Recalcitrant
Cavalcade
Append
Sedate
16. Make (something bad) worse
Rancid
Ruse
Sedate
Exacerbate
17. Submissive
Vociferous
Memorandum
Docile
Expedient
18. Member of a band
Apprehensive
Hermit
Brigand
Demeanor
19. Most noticeable; important
Salient
Bungler
Placebo
ostracism
20. Lacking in freshness or originality.
Silo
hackneyed
Hoard
Allay
21. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Rancid
Amenable
Futility
Pusillanimous
22. Pretentious/showy; to impress
Lax
Ostentatious
Spurn
Skirmish
23. Informal private conversation
demagogue
Confab
Dandy
Strident
24. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
hackneyed
melancholy
filibuster
Pugilist
25. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Fulminate
evanescent
Vociferous
Salient
26. Only motivated by self-interest
Cynical
Admonition
Demure
Duplicitous
27. Trick
Dour
chimerical
Ruse
Slake
28. (of a person) fat
Corpulent
Titillate
behemoth
perfidy
29. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Extol
Amulet
Ardent
Blight
30. Insulting/mocking remark
Magnanimous
Pensive
Panacea
Jibe
31. Very generous
belligerent
Munificent
Intractable
Modicum
32. Medicinal extract.
drawl
Contentious
Allay
belladonna
33. Servant
Paragon
Lackey
Insipid
Candid
34. Perplex - confusing
Lax
Inundate
bewildering
Salient
35. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Tame
Perturb
Allay
Cavalcade
36. Profession/science of teaching
Parley
Asinine
evanescent
Pedagogy
37. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Allay
Ire
Dour
Indelible
38. Act angrily or defensively
Unanimous
Admonition
lethargy
Bristle
39. Formally display sorrow
Imperative
Prerogative
Sate (satiate)
Elegy
40. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
perambulate
Berth
Anachronism
Troupe
41. Flood/large amount of water
Pedant
Gauntlet
Derision
Inundate
42. Straying from the law
demagogue
Errant
Ire
Insurrection
43. Valuable stolen goods
Inexorable
Booty
Rife
Conflagration
44. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Virile
Reproach
Euphoric
Loquacious
45. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Embroider
Pensive
Demotic
Panacea
46. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Dulcet
Soporific
Pervasive
Extol
47. Unproductive of results
Nefarious
Parley
Insurrection
barrenness
48. Before the war
Reproach
Abdicate
antebellum
Scion
49. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Reprieve
trite
Exorbitant
Eccentric
50. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Sate (satiate)
Ostentatious
Impetuous
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