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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. Restate
Captious
Recapitulate
Subjective
Ardor
2. Young horse
Bland
foal
sanguine
Append
3. Submissive
Boorish
Docile
Intractable
Chicanery
4. Valuable stolen goods
Prerogative
Lithe
Pertinent
Booty
5. Acknowledged superiority in
Boorish
Innocuous
Eminence
Relegate
6. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Paregoric
Ascetic
Plethora
Paramour
7. Insulting/mocking remark
Jibe
foal
Relegate
Contentious
8. Appropriate - suitable
Modicum
Paragon
Quarry
Apt
9. Act angrily or defensively
Apprehensive
Peal
Querulous
Bristle
10. Give up or become compliant
Relegate
Supplant
Tractable
phlegmatic
11. Fault-finding
Impart
Captious
Extirpate
Pilfer
12. Have no serious purpose/value
Dissolute
Frivolous
Contempt
invidious
13. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
invidious
belligerent
Gaudy
Derision
14. Officially absolve from blame
Angler
Profligate
Apt
Exonerate
15. Speak slowly
Lithe
Enamel
Ire
drawl
16. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Docile
Enamel
Pertinent
Duplicitous
17. Not resulting from plan
evanescent
Inadvertent
Allay
Lax
18. Violent uprising against authority
Denude
Assiduous
Lunacy
Insurrection
19. Replace
belligerent
Berth
Supplant
Skirmish
20. Anxiety or dismay.
Depot
Pail
Consternation
hangar
21. Item of food; something eaten
Brigand
Comestible
Extirpate
Scrutiny
22. Self-resistant (sexually)
Continent
Tractable
Dogmatic
Tame
23. Represent as little worth; scorn
Flounder
Connoisseur
Imbue
Disparage
24. Brief and concise.
Pensive
succinct
Coffer
Hackneyed
25. Lacking flavor
Apprehensive
Modicum
Reproach
Insipid
26. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Ardent
Lugubrious
belladonna
Sterile
27. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Unanimous
Dour
Nefarious
lucidity
28. Apathy or sluggishness
Indelible
Diatribe
phlegmatic
Fulminate
29. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Eminence
Virile
Pertinent
juggernaut
30. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
Valor
Exacerbate
Relegate
Recalcitrant
31. Saying much in few words; brief.
Abate
laconic - spartan
Admonition
Consummate
32. Small amount of something; iota
Peal
Paucity
Blight
Rapscallion
33. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Imperative
demagogue
Brigand
Moratorium
34. Placate by acceding their demands
pariah
Coffer
Appease
Perfidious
35. In widespread practice - use - existence
Rife
ostracism
Corpulent
Indelible
36. Only seeks personal pleasure
Hedonist
Pervasive
Quarry
Vociferous
37. Calm; unhurried
panegyric
Sedate
behemoth
Cavalcade
38. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
Duplicitous
maudlin
Indelible
Tenuous
39. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
chastened
Rescind
cynicism
sybaritic
40. Wordy (fewer would do)
Tractable
Frivolous
trite
Circumlocution
41. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Impetuous
Inundate
Abate
revered
42. Lover (against marriage)
Pier
Paramour
Bland
Elegy
43. Generous/munificent/forgive
Sterile
Candid
Enamel
Magnanimous
44. Praise enthusiastically
Perfidious
Lithe
Extol
Magnanimous
45. Lose composure; make agitated
Indolent
Fluster
Confluence
Promulgate
46. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Ditty
Soporific
Euphoric
Intrepid
47. Small quantity
Balmy
bellicose
Modicum
Lodge
48. Servant
Lackey
Admonition
masochist
maudlin
49. Very small/meager
Regression
meretricious
Paltry
Inexorable
50. Great enthusiasm/passion
Recondite
Pedestrian
Ardor
Histrionic