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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. Saying much in few words; brief.
Continent
Quarry
laconic - spartan
Lariat
2. Trickery or fraud
Avarice
Chicanery
Dulcet
Dilettante
3. Give up or become compliant
Flounder
Exorbitant
Tractable
Expedient
4. Addition to a will
Codicil
Soporific
Fickle
Captious
5. Short simple song
sanguine
Ditty
hangar
Perfunctory
6. Wordy (fewer would do)
Repugnant
invidious
Circumlocution
Ardent
7. Resign/give up
melancholy
Dogmatic
evanescent
Abdicate
8. Mournful/sad/dismay
Lugubrious
Continent
Unanimous
Indignation
9. Meeting between sides in a dispute
Magnanimous
Perturb
Parley
Futility
10. Speak slowly
drawl
Depot
Effervescent
Eulogy
11. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Lugubrious
Vociferous
Vapid
Languish
12. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
Apt
Quarry
Gaunt
Ascetic
13. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Subjective
Dolorous
Balmy
Salient
14. Schemer/fisherman
Libidinous
Carouse
Angler
belladonna
15. Item of food; something eaten
Allay
Comestible
Blight
Recalcitrant
16. Like a knight; proud or careless.
chastened
aridity
cavalier
Consummate
17. Exhibiting aggression.
Pilfer
Paramour
Hone
belligerent
18. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Gaudy
Vapid
Supplant
Plethora
19. (of a person) fat
Corpulent
cynicism
Paltry
Magnanimous
20. Lying under oath
Intractable
Eccentric
Jibe
Perjury
21. Base - lowest
Tenuous
Nadir
Coy
meretricious
22. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Discordant
Hermit
Amenable
Dilettante
23. Contributing/helping towards
trite
Pedant
Conducive
Allay
24. Deep respect
Asinine
Reverence
Acclimate
Querulous
25. Sew
Embroider
Magnanimous
Scant
choleric
26. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Cynical
Atelier
lope
melancholy
27. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Predilection
Inundate
Loquacious
Quarry
28. Offering nothing challenging
Rescind
choleric
Vapid
Append
29. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Inundate
barrenness
perfidy
lucidity
30. Bulky glove
Gauntlet
Anathema
Apprehensive
Connoisseur
31. Deceptive/deceitful
Tenuous
Ardent
Duplicitous
Fickle
32. Praise enthusiastically
Berth
Unanimous
Extol
Tractable
33. Very small/meager
Pertinent
Paltry
Lax
Banal
34. Extremely foolish or stupid
Errant
Garish
Lariat
Asinine
35. Making harsh/loud noise
posh
Chortle
Downpour
Raucous
36. Reject with disdain
Imbue
Perfidious
Spurn
lucidity
37. Be in the position of authority
Preside
Admonition
Hone
Parley
38. Revelry - enjoy one self (noisily)
Appease
Diatribe
antebellum
Carouse
39. Belief of something/one is useless
meretricious
obverse
Contempt
Bristle
40. Dull and uninspired
Pedestrian
Petulant
Anomaly
Angler
41. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Profligate
Acquiesce
demagogue
perfidy
42. Recklessly daring
adulation
Moratorium
Allay
Audacious
43. Have no serious purpose/value
Eccentric
Frivolous
Pertinent
Jibe
44. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
agnostic
Languish
Lax
Candid
45. Deadly
Pernicious
Pilfer
Paregoric
Rancid
46. Slim; supple; graceful
Lithe
Anomaly
Appease
choleric
47. Add to end of a document
bewildering
trite
Pernicious
Append
48. Store of money or valuable objects
Hoard
Assiduous
Miscreant
Subjective
49. Preference/special liking for
Apprehensive
Embroider
Predilection
Malady
50. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
stoic
Discordant
bewildering