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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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1. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Pedant
lucidity
Eschew
Relegate
2. Impossible to stop or prevent
Silo
Mulish
belladonna
Inexorable
3. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
lucidity
Plethora
Chortle
Rebuke
4. Complete happiness/ expressing
Histrionic
Apt
Obstinate
Felicity
5. Steady earnest effort
Indelible
cavalier
diligence
Quarry
6. Unoriginal; commonplace
Garish
Inadvertent
Banal
Coffer
7. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
cherubic
pariah
Frivolous
Intractable
8. Not resulting from plan
Ostentatious
Lunacy
Inadvertent
panegyric
9. Express vehement protest
Fulminate
choleric
Dulcet
Lodge
10. Not canonical (accepted principle esp in church).
Apprehensive
diligence
Spurn
apocryphal
11. Having no fear
sybaritic
Intrepid
Bristle
Hoard
12. Act angrily or defensively
Bristle
belladonna
Castigate
Coffer
13. Too obedient/servile.
Obsequious
Predilection
cogent
demagogue
14. Belief of something/one is useless
Cynical
Subjective
Contempt
Auspicious
15. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Profligate
Carouse
Anomaly
posh
16. One living in solitude (religious)
Hermit
Corpulent
Supplant
Cabal
17. Lacking flavor
Insipid
Acclimate
Reprieve
Docile
18. Lying under oath
Garish
Perjury
Inane
Brackish
19. Disease or ailment
Malady
Tenuous
Infirmary
Comestible
20. Offering nothing challenging
Vapid
Trowel
Sate (satiate)
cavalier
21. Member of a band
Pedagogy
Fluster
Unanimous
Brigand
22. Having power; convincing
Titillate
Garish
cogent
Duplicitous
23. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Promulgate
Diatribe
Vapid
Begrudge
24. Praise enthusiastically
Pugilist
Extol
filibuster
cogent
25. A hospital
Desultory
naïvete
Eminence
Infirmary
26. Man concern with stylish looks
pariah
Effervescent
Append
Dandy
27. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Relegate
Lariat
Eulogy
seraphic
28. Relieve/end fear/pain/concern
belligerent
Hedonist
Indignation
Allay
29. Approval; praise
Subjective
Regression
Pervasive
Approbation
30. Extreme form of sharpening
hangar
Hone
Predilection
bellicose
31. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Lithe
Obsequious
Kudos
lope
32. Lacking in freshness or originality.
seraphic
Extirpate
hackneyed
belligerent
33. Depression of spirits
melancholy
polemic
Semantic
Vociferous
34. Temporary prohibition of activity
Hackneyed
Carouse
Moratorium
Comestible
35. Insanity
Abdicate
Blight
Malady
Lunacy
36. Permanent
Garish
Indelible
Pilfer
Memorandum
37. Express disapproval; reprove
Incompetent
Reprimand
belladonna
Paucity
38. Informal private conversation
Acquiesce
Confab
Extirpate
Fulminate
39. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Mulish
Conflagration
Discreet
Castigate
40. One who suffers without complaining.
Pilfer
Revue
stoic
hangar
41. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Lariat
Subjective
Languish
Imperative
42. Loud and harsh
Append
Strident
Intractable
Magnanimous
43. Wordy (fewer would do)
Panacea
Exhort
Circuitous
Circumlocution
44. Cause to lose confidence/hope
Semantic
Apprehensive
Consternation
Demoralize
45. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Lodge
Diatribe
Soporific
Intrepid
46. Tolerant; set as true
Clamor
Obstinate
Perturb
Dogmatic
47. Greatly honored.
Indelible
revered
Perfunctory
Spurn
48. Outcast
Pernicious
pariah
Impart
Munificent
49. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Berth
hangar
Hoard
Dandy
50. Silly (lacking sense)
Ingenious
Inane
Poignant
Anachronism