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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. Steal (things of little value)
Smug
Malady
Pilfer
Quarry
2. Clever/original/inventive
Ingenious
Confluence
Booty
Felicity
3. Give up or become compliant
Balmy
Munificent
Tractable
Bristle
4. Expressing disapproval
Gaunt
Gluttony
Lapel
Pejorative
5. Make (something bad) worse
chimerical
Insurrection
filibuster
Exacerbate
6. Extreme happiness/elated
Euphoric
Downpour
Smug
Amulet
7. Strict in manner; extremely simple
Austere
Innocuous
Vapid
Corpulent
8. Complete happiness/ expressing
Candid
panegyric
Felicity
Consummate
9. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Insurrection
Recalcitrant
masochist
Rancid
10. Deep respect
Anathema
Reverence
Incompetent
Enamel
11. Tall tower used to store grain
Raucous
Futility
Magnanimous
Silo
12. Violation of faith or loyalty
Mulish
Snare
Circuitous
perfidy
13. Steady earnest effort
Anachronism
Sanctuary
diligence
trite
14. Item of food; something eaten
Gaunt
lope
Comestible
Ostentatious
15. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Abstruse
Exonerate
Sate (satiate)
Ardent
16. Resign/give up
Abdicate
quixotic
Intrepid
Elegy
17. End something
Ethereal
barrenness
Bland
Consummate
18. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
Paramour
Recapitulate
Demotic
invidious
19. Make or become fixed; stuck
Eccentric
Raucous
Lodge
Nefarious
20. Man entering frequent sex relation
Depot
sanguine
adulation
Philander
21. Not harmful or offensive
Innocuous
phlegmatic
demagogue
Fickle
22. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Paregoric
Berth
Paucity
Scion
23. Grow weak/feeble
panegyric
Languish
Giddy
Elegy
24. Insulting/mocking remark
Ostentatious
Fortuitous
Jibe
Paucity
25. Perplex - confusing
bewildering
Rapscallion
Intrepid
Ardent
26. Lose composure; make agitated
Paramour
Fluster
Tractable
Reticent
27. Descendant (notable - long family)
Chortle
Plethora
Scion
Discreet
28. Abusive/highly critical language
Invective
Dolorous
Relegate
Cabal
29. Store of money or valuable objects
Slake
Hoard
Silo
Banal
30. Fully in agreement
Cabal
Rapscallion
melancholy
Unanimous
31. Written message (diplomacy)
Languish
melancholy
Memorandum
cynicism
32. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
Philander
sybaritic
apocryphal
33. Extreme form of sharpening
Hone
Petulant
trite
Languish
34. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Hackneyed
naïvete
cherubic
Chicanery
35. Slightly salty
Assiduous
Brackish
Anodyne
Tenuous
36. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Revue
Exacerbate
Vociferous
Demure
37. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
Cavalcade
Pedagogy
Solace
Trowel
38. Evoke keen sense of sadness/regret
Fulminate
belligerent
seraphic
Poignant
39. Wicked/criminal
Nefarious
Extol
Blight
naïvete
40. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Impetuous
bellicose
Snare
trite
41. Relieve/end fear/pain/concern
Hoard
Downpour
Stoical
Allay
42. Bulky glove
Munificent
Embroider
Gauntlet
Solace
43. Return to former state
Regression
Pejorative
Derision
Booty
44. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Uncanny
Plethora
Lax
Fickle
45. Pretentious/showy; to impress
Ascetic
Lunacy
Ostentatious
Reticent
46. Greatly honored.
Quarry
drawl
revered
Lax
47. Preference/special liking for
Dolorous
Sanctuary
Predilection
Ethereal
48. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Flounder
lope
Pusillanimous
melancholy
49. Member of a band
Insurrection
Predilection
Domicile
Brigand
50. Satisfy fully
Fortuitous
Sate (satiate)
Lodge
Booty