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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. Deadly
Appease
Apprehensive
Pernicious
Confluence
2. Self-satisfied irritably. Smirk: smile
Obsequious
Bland
Smug
Trowel
3. Talkative
Loquacious
trite
Flounder
Histrionic
4. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Fickle
choleric
Skirmish
Consummate
5. Descendant (notable - long family)
Appease
Rancid
Inundate
Scion
6. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Abdicate
Abstruse
Bland
cavalier
7. Unproductive of results
Chicanery
barrenness
Pugilist
Duplicitous
8. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Libidinous
Hone
Scowl
Supplant
9. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
aridity
Acquiesce
Munificent
10. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Libidinous
Indignation
Discombobulate
naïvete
11. Great enthusiasm/passion
Auspicious
Ardor
Pail
Strident
12. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Flounder
Intractable
Demeanor
serendipity
13. Cause sleep/drowsiness
obverse
Modicum
Pusillanimous
Soporific
14. Secret political faction in collusion
Lariat
Indelible
Appease
Cabal
15. Cancel or take back
diligence
Discordant
Mendicant
Rescind
16. Placate by acceding their demands
Appease
adulation
Kudos
Conflagration
17. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Blight
Dandy
Effervescent
Plethora
18. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Dilettante
phlegmatic
chimerical
Fortuitous
19. Dullness of body/spirit; abnormal drowsy
lethargy
Rancid
Profusion
behemoth
20. Small amount of something; iota
Paucity
Fulminate
Rife
Kudos
21. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
choleric
pariah
Futility
Valor
22. Straying from the law
Acquiesce
Errant
Append
Gauntlet
23. Long speech of angry criticism
Berth
Demoralize
Tirade
Codicil
24. Not sufficiently skillful
Fickle
Incompetent
Rife
Fortuitous
25. Exclusive right/privilege held by
aridity
Prerogative
Fluster
Dandy
26. Depression of spirits
seraphic
pariah
foal
melancholy
27. Relevant/applicable to some matter
perfidy
Pertinent
Abhor
Conducive
28. Trick
Hackneyed
Ruse
choleric
cherubic
29. Anticipating with anxiety
Flounder
Apprehensive
Profusion
Spurn
30. Destroy completely
sanguine
Extirpate
polemic
chastened
31. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
apocryphal
Garish
lucidity
Inundate
32. Add to end of a document
Append
Remission
Fortuitous
cavalier
33. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Impart
Lax
Pert
Demure
34. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Consummate
Contempt
lope
Exhort
35. Greatly honored.
filibuster
revered
Entomology
behemoth
36. Addition to a will
Lithe
Connoisseur
Codicil
Depot
37. Dull and uninspired
Embroider
Pedestrian
Entomology
Impertinent
38. Confuse
diligence
Recapitulate
Discombobulate
Prerogative
39. Before the war
Avarice
Profligate
antebellum
serendipity
40. Trap for catching small animals
Snare
Moratorium
Impart
Eminence
41. Barren; fruitless
Abstruse
Cabal
Sterile
Allay
42. Base - lowest
Nadir
Perturb
Gaudy
lope
43. Outcast
Pail
Circumlocution
Duplicitous
pariah
44. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Unanimous
trite
Desultory
Apt
45. Favorable
Pensive
Giddy
Auspicious
Kudos
46. Lover (against marriage)
Ennui
Paramour
Unanimous
invidious
47. Profession/science of teaching
Solace
Austere
Pedagogy
Impertinent
48. Warlike
Querulous
bellicose
Malady
juggernaut
49. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Contempt
Stoical
phlegmatic
Berth
50. Small quantity
bellicose
Modicum
Hedonist
Ascetic