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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. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Mellifluous
Remission
Asinine
Eccentric
2. Show great care and perseverance
Insipid
Assiduous
Avarice
sybaritic
3. Lying under oath
Perjury
Auspicious
Rescind
Moratorium
4. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
Nadir
filibuster
Bungler
perfidy
5. Insulting/mocking remark
Lithe
Jibe
Raucous
polemic
6. Greatly honored.
cavalier
revered
Anachronism
Elegy
7. Fault-finding
Captious
foal
Languish
demagogue
8. Formal way to show praise/laudation
meretricious
Eulogy
Salient
Histrionic
9. Restate
Recapitulate
Apprehensive
Seraphic
Lodge
10. Trap for catching small animals
Tame
Histrionic
Snare
lethargy
11. Make or become fixed; stuck
Tame
Lodge
Paragon
Berth
12. Extensive/destructive fire
Conflagration
Fulminate
Insurrection
Apprehensive
13. Container storing valuables
Angler
Assiduous
Dour
Coffer
14. Short simple song
Consummate
Exacerbate
Stoical
Ditty
15. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
Elegy
Scant
Unanimous
chastened
16. Return to former state
Spurn
Munificent
Regression
Comestible
17. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Anomaly
Miscreant
Flounder
Recondite
18. Long speech of angry criticism
Tirade
Banal
Loquacious
Abdicate
19. Something to vehemently dislike
Contentious
Mulish
Coffer
Anathema
20. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Semantic
Extirpate
Vociferous
Exhort
21. Secret political faction in collusion
Cabal
Abdicate
Carouse
inanimate
22. Bucket
Pail
Conducive
Surreptitious
Confluence
23. Acknowledged superiority in
Inundate
Derision
sanguine
Eminence
24. Not sufficiently skillful
Sedate
Promulgate
Incompetent
trite
25. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Euphoric
Blight
Clamor
Raucous
26. Complete happiness/ expressing
Confluence
Felicity
Dolorous
invidious
27. Only seeks personal pleasure
Hoard
Comestible
Sate (satiate)
Hedonist
28. Informal private conversation
Confab
Reproach
Panacea
lethargy
29. Small amount of something; iota
Paucity
Giddy
Circuitous
Futility
30. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
cavalier
Sedate
masochist
Bland
31. Showy (no value); prostitute.
meretricious
Vapid
panegyric
Paucity
32. Study of insects
masochist
Discreet
Entomology
Brackish
33. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Candid
Rapscallion
Giddy
Banal
34. Critical observation/examination
Strident
Hilt
Pier
Scrutiny
35. Written message (diplomacy)
Perfunctory
Intrepid
Brigand
Memorandum
36. Communicate; give to something
trite
Eulogy
Impart
Perturb
37. Longer than most direct way
Profusion
Demoralize
Circuitous
masochist
38. Lose composure; make agitated
Boorish
filibuster
Fluster
Snare
39. Belonging to another period
Anachronism
Apt
Errant
Uncanny
40. Hard to control/deal with
barrenness
Intractable
Quintessence
Frivolous
41. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
invidious
Ditty
Subjective
Sate (satiate)
42. Art/practice of disputation.
melancholy
Subjective
Obstinate
polemic
43. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Lodge
Skirmish
melancholy
Tame
44. Abusive/highly critical language
Invective
Disparage
Remission
Elegy
45. Group of entertainers who tour
Allay
Confluence
Effervescent
Troupe
46. Tall tower used to store grain
Gauntlet
Silo
Supplant
apocryphal
47. Dryness
aridity
Scrutiny
Moratorium
Mellifluous
48. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Ethereal
Peal
Allay
diligence
49. Very generous
Hermit
Munificent
Austere
Pert
50. In widespread practice - use - existence
Rife
aridity
Allay
Cavalcade