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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. Causing (likely) disagreement
behemoth
Atelier
Contentious
Brackish
2. Make (something bad) worse
Eminence
Perjury
Exacerbate
Nadir
3. Mythical beast; unreal.
Chortle
chimerical
Recondite
demagogue
4. Tending to vanish like vapor.
evanescent
Languish
Ire
Austere
5. Placate by acceding their demands
Tirade
behemoth
Appease
Trowel
6. Written message (diplomacy)
Parley
Contentious
Sterile
Memorandum
7. Wicked/criminal
Circumlocution
Coalesce
Nefarious
bellicose
8. Favorable
Impart
Auspicious
Ethereal
Elegy
9. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
Strident
Gaunt
serendipity
Corpulent
10. Accustom to new conditions
Discreet
Acclimate
Tirade
Dissolute
11. Satisfy fully
Contempt
Lithe
Sate (satiate)
Eccentric
12. Lack courage dastard (coward)
filibuster
Pusillanimous
Derision
Incompetent
13. Excessive in eating
Pusillanimous
bellicose
Avarice
Gluttony
14. Bring relief; unlikely to offend
Audacious
Asinine
Anodyne
Atelier
15. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Audacious
Blight
obverse
Dour
16. Temporary prohibition of activity
Denude
barrenness
Moratorium
Inane
17. Untruthful
filibuster
Mendacity
Exhort
Extol
18. Restate
Recapitulate
Innocuous
Perfidious
Hedonist
19. Not reveal thoughts/feelings easily
Reticent
Acclimate
Moratorium
Lackey
20. Violation of faith or loyalty
Desultory
Fluster
perfidy
Carouse
21. Warlike
succinct
Strident
Pusillanimous
bellicose
22. Revelry - enjoy one self (noisily)
apocryphal
Hilt
Carouse
Apt
23. Group of entertainers who tour
Querulous
Troupe
Valor
Cynical
24. Informal private conversation
Ennui
Confab
Discreet
diligence
25. Accept passively (give in); accede
Banal
Acquiesce
Apprehensive
Scion
26. Feelings of ill will.
Codicil
Captious
vitriol
Malady
27. Cheerful - hopeful.
Malady
choleric
sanguine
Disparage
28. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Anodyne
Berth
Paragon
Exonerate
29. Showy (no value); prostitute.
Continent
meretricious
Reticent
Hilt
30. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
Asinine
Hilt
Hackneyed
Hoard
31. Schemer/fisherman
Preside
Rancid
Dulcet
Angler
32. Having no fear
vitriol
Vociferous
Intrepid
Eminence
33. Member of a band
Fluster
belladonna
Brigand
Eulogy
34. Sew
Embroider
Domicile
Approbation
Obsequious
35. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Preside
Mellifluous
Blight
Vociferous
36. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Indignation
Conflagration
Ascetic
Cavalcade
37. Something to vehemently dislike
Impart
Preside
sanguine
Anathema
38. Lose composure; make agitated
Fluster
Munificent
Downpour
Imbue
39. Man entering frequent sex relation
Memorandum
Philander
Derision
Sedate
40. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Diatribe
Balmy
Indelible
Embroider
41. Trickery or fraud
Chicanery
Ennui
Blight
Gaunt
42. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Scant
Entomology
Paregoric
bellicose
43. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
Fracas
Impart
Malady
serendipity
44. Tastelessly bright or showy
Expedient
Indolent
Gaudy
Perjury
45. Expert judge in matter of taste
Mendacity
Codicil
Seraphic
Connoisseur
46. Servant
Gaunt
Lackey
Preside
antebellum
47. Tolerant; set as true
Downpour
Supplant
Dogmatic
Asinine
48. Criticize sharply
Ubiquitous
drawl
Paragon
Rebuke
49. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
Enamel
Coffer
Eccentric
50. Approval; praise
Approbation
Tirade
Captious
revered