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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. Warlike
panegyric
Flounder
phlegmatic
bellicose
2. Lack respect; impudent; insolent
Scion
Impertinent
Downpour
stoic
3. Mythical beast; unreal.
trite
chimerical
Scant
Eulogy
4. Used by ordinary people; secular
Flounder
Pail
Demotic
obverse
5. Schemer/fisherman
Innocuous
Angler
Hoard
Rife
6. Anticipating with anxiety
Allay
Strident
Apprehensive
Acquiesce
7. Assign inferior rank to
Uncanny
Consummate
Relegate
Silo
8. Brief and concise.
Dilettante
Scant
Boorish
succinct
9. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
Tame
Querulous
cavalier
10. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Gluttony
lope
Demotic
Diatribe
11. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Pilfer
Impetuous
Munificent
Ostentatious
12. Place of refuge/safety
drawl
Sanctuary
Mulish
Clamor
13. Mild warning; cautionary advice
Clamor
Promulgate
Admonition
Mendacity
14. Inept; insufficient to perform a task
Bungler
inanimate
Hilt
Fluster
15. Insulting/mocking remark
seraphic
Jibe
Consternation
diligence
16. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
vitriol
Cabal
Gaunt
Garish
17. Only seeks personal pleasure
agnostic
Hedonist
hackneyed
Hackneyed
18. Favorable
Sanctuary
Auspicious
Impertinent
Recondite
19. Deceptive/deceitful
Duplicitous
Strident
Consummate
quixotic
20. Violent uprising against authority
Cynical
Enamel
Insurrection
Continent
21. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
Confluence
Lariat
Pensive
Valor
22. Praise enthusiastically
Candid
Mendicant
Kudos
Extol
23. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Panacea
Fluster
Candid
Discreet
24. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Effervescent
Spurn
vitriol
Soporific
25. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Tame
bellicose
Disparage
Audacious
26. Accustom to new conditions
Acclimate
Inundate
lethargy
Impetuous
27. Fake substitute for a drug
Placebo
Sate (satiate)
Chicanery
Eccentric
28. Anger
Abstruse
Inane
Seraphic
Ire
29. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Lugubrious
Slake
Fulminate
Appease
30. Happen by chance
Circumlocution
succinct
Smug
Fortuitous
31. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
Asinine
cogent
filibuster
Querulous
32. Relevant/applicable to some matter
Pusillanimous
Pertinent
Innocuous
Extirpate
33. Dryness
aridity
Insipid
Audacious
Semantic
34. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Surreptitious
Invective
Eulogy
Snare
35. Criticize sharply
Rebuke
Contempt
lethargy
Domicile
36. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Scowl
Silo
Subjective
Hackneyed
37. Trick
Pusillanimous
Preside
Pert
Ruse
38. Art/practice of disputation.
Recapitulate
polemic
Admonition
Subjective
39. Steal (things of little value)
Bland
Pilfer
Soporific
Boorish
40. Recklessly daring
Inexorable
demagogue
Audacious
Fickle
41. Extreme happiness/elated
pariah
Euphoric
Fulminate
Modicum
42. Lose composure; make agitated
Discreet
Gluttony
Fluster
Pusillanimous
43. Have no serious purpose/value
Frivolous
vitriol
filibuster
Modicum
44. Showy (no value); prostitute.
Gluttony
meretricious
Fluster
belligerent
45. Post that holds up a handrail
Confab
Spindle
Amalgamate
Intrepid
46. Place for storage of large commodity
Duplicitous
Depot
Panacea
Nadir
47. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
lope
Scant
Flounder
laconic - spartan
48. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Skirmish
Exhort
Perturb
Fracas
49. Cancel punishment of
Reprieve
Cavalcade
Titillate
Lithe
50. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Profligate
trite
Exhort
Seraphic