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PCAT Vocab2
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1. Item of food; something eaten
Demure
Comestible
Modicum
serendipity
2. Uselessness; pointless
Innocuous
Hackneyed
Uncanny
Futility
3. Secret political faction in collusion
chastened
Cabal
Scowl
Lax
4. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Solace
Acclimate
Balmy
Infirmary
5. Young horse
Raucous
Promulgate
foal
Bristle
6. One who suffers without complaining.
stoic
Captious
Eschew
hackneyed
7. Profession/science of teaching
stoic
Booty
Sterile
Pedagogy
8. Laugh in a gleeful way
foal
Chortle
Dour
Errant
9. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Contempt
demagogue
Dissolute
ostracism
10. Strip of covering; make bare
Mendicant
Valor
apocryphal
Denude
11. Difficult to understand
Discreet
Recalcitrant
Abstruse
belligerent
12. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Extirpate
Soporific
Inundate
Denude
13. Place of refuge/safety
vitriol
Sanctuary
laconic - spartan
Promulgate
14. Informal private conversation
Confab
trite
revered
Sate (satiate)
15. Tending to vanish like vapor.
evanescent
Diatribe
Pedagogy
Tractable
16. Fashionable.
Poignant
posh
Pier
Exhort
17. Extremely foolish or stupid
Lax
Asinine
sybaritic
Downpour
18. Deep respect
Paltry
Paramour
Reverence
Gaunt
19. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Recapitulate
Peal
phlegmatic
Tame
20. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
masochist
serendipity
Rescind
Pier
21. Excessive in eating
foal
Gluttony
Solace
filibuster
22. Disease or ailment
maudlin
Lodge
Malady
Spurn
23. Relate to meaning in language/logic
Semantic
Profusion
Promulgate
Consummate
24. Most perfect/typical example
Modicum
Connoisseur
Quintessence
Discombobulate
25. Make (something bad) worse
Frivolous
Reprimand
Exacerbate
invidious
26. Trap for catching small animals
naïvete
Snare
Berth
Incompetent
27. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Acclimate
Exorbitant
Mellifluous
Stoical
28. House/repair airplanes
naïvete
hangar
Carouse
Eccentric
29. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Mendicant
Virile
Blight
antebellum
30. Destroy completely
Pail
Reproach
Extirpate
Kudos
31. Fully in agreement
Petulant
Pail
bellicose
Unanimous
32. Warlike
Pertinent
bellicose
lucidity
Hone
33. Before the war
antebellum
Ingenious
melancholy
Paltry
34. Resign/give up
Cabal
Conducive
obverse
Abdicate
35. End something
Tirade
Audacious
Consummate
Profusion
36. Depression of spirits
Apt
Vapid
Anachronism
melancholy
37. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
sanguine
Plethora
Impetuous
Reprimand
38. Steady earnest effort
Consummate
diligence
Bristle
Scion
39. Lustful
Libidinous
Boorish
Snare
Diatribe
40. Irritated - angry.
Confluence
choleric
Spurn
Cabal
41. Insulting/mocking remark
Gauntlet
Dogmatic
Jibe
Effervescent
42. Approval; praise
Anomaly
Approbation
Pedant
Infirmary
43. Accustom to new conditions
Acclimate
Reticent
Eminence
Semantic
44. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Enamel
Prerogative
Semantic
Quant
45. Flood/large amount of water
Kudos
Allay
Inundate
Sanctuary
46. Most noticeable; important
Salient
Auspicious
Demoralize
Pedagogy
47. Trickery or fraud
Dogmatic
Booty
Chicanery
apocryphal
48. Complete happiness/ expressing
Profligate
Felicity
Mellifluous
Slake
49. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Begrudge
Cavalcade
Munificent
Avarice
50. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Pert
Diatribe
Austere
Coffer
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