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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. Container storing valuables
Sate (satiate)
Coffer
diligence
Coalesce
2. Extensive/destructive fire
hangar
Conflagration
Slake
Expedient
3. Excessively detailed; boring
Trowel
Anathema
Pedant
Avarice
4. Stubborn to change one's mind
Tractable
Consummate
Fickle
Obstinate
5. Shun or avoid
Repugnant
Eschew
Virile
Inadvertent
6. Anticipating with anxiety
Apprehensive
Fluster
serendipity
Felicity
7. Placate by acceding their demands
Comestible
Appease
Asinine
evanescent
8. Like a knight; proud or careless.
vitriol
Recapitulate
Scant
cavalier
9. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Acquiesce
Rife
diligence
Indolent
10. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Effervescent
agnostic
Impetuous
Imperative
11. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
trite
cavalier
Pervasive
Impart
12. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Ingenious
Virile
Gaudy
Invective
13. Short simple song
Troupe
Ditty
laconic - spartan
Snare
14. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Insipid
Spurn
Panacea
Gluttony
15. Sorrowful
Vapid
Frivolous
Anachronism
Dolorous
16. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Confab
evanescent
Solace
Futility
17. Valuable stolen goods
Consummate
Booty
Indignation
Pilfer
18. Before the war
Begrudge
antebellum
Apex
sanguine
19. Bring together to form a whole
Solace
Lariat
melancholy
Coalesce
20. Trickery or fraud
Chicanery
Scrutiny
Rife
foal
21. A studio (where sculpture works)
Valor
Atelier
cherubic
agnostic
22. Junction of two rivers; merging
drawl
Begrudge
Enamel
Confluence
23. Uselessness; pointless
Dogmatic
Ire
Futility
Eulogy
24. Unproductive of results
Admonition
Imperative
Ardor
barrenness
25. Slightly salty
Troupe
Brackish
Dandy
cherubic
26. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Abhor
Amulet
Quarry
Perfidious
27. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Demure
Enamel
Austere
serendipity
28. Envy the possession/enjoyment of
Bungler
Approbation
Begrudge
Abstruse
29. Comfort; consolation times of distress
Embroider
Pedestrian
Solace
Fluster
30. Critical observation/examination
Scrutiny
Auspicious
Gluttony
Mulish
31. Cancel punishment of
Reprieve
Paramour
lucidity
Virile
32. Greatly honored.
Inane
Pedant
Infringe
revered
33. Heavy rainfall
Stoical
Amulet
Profligate
Downpour
34. Tall tower used to store grain
Silo
invidious
Seraphic
Fulminate
35. Longer than most direct way
Amulet
Circuitous
drawl
Diatribe
36. (of a sound) - sweet and soothing
Dulcet
seraphic
Reticent
Continent
37. Schemer/fisherman
Eccentric
Comestible
Chortle
Angler
38. Belief of something/one is useless
Malady
Futility
Contempt
Obsequious
39. Expert judge in matter of taste
Connoisseur
filibuster
Fulminate
Errant
40. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Paramour
Subjective
Raucous
Paragon
41. Written message (diplomacy)
Pervasive
Avarice
Memorandum
Gauntlet
42. Talkative
Revue
cavalier
meretricious
Loquacious
43. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Miscreant
Tirade
Repugnant
Candid
44. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Perjury
cherubic
Acquiesce
Philander
45. Fully in agreement
Blight
Downpour
Unanimous
Regression
46. Offering nothing challenging
Solace
Sate (satiate)
Vapid
Demoralize
47. Wicked/criminal
Lackey
Garish
Lapel
Nefarious
48. Insanity
Reproach
Lunacy
Pejorative
aridity
49. Obstinately uncooperative
Recapitulate
Recalcitrant
inanimate
Corpulent
50. Very generous
Giddy
Placebo
Munificent
Tame