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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. Cancel or take back
obverse
Remission
Inundate
Rescind
2. Represent as little worth; scorn
Disparage
Exacerbate
Perfidious
Errant
3. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Abstruse
Amulet
Blight
Austere
4. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Nefarious
Fickle
Hackneyed
Regression
5. A hospital
belligerent
Impertinent
Infirmary
Consternation
6. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Confab
Angler
Panacea
Salient
7. Irritated - angry.
Atelier
Moratorium
Fracas
choleric
8. Man concern with stylish looks
Ruse
Dandy
Disparage
meretricious
9. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Cavalcade
Quarry
choleric
Impart
10. Not having life.
Ostentatious
Smug
inanimate
Dilettante
11. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Scowl
evanescent
Mendicant
laconic - spartan
12. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Repugnant
Blight
Sterile
Recondite
13. Descendant (notable - long family)
Pedant
Scrutiny
Scion
cynicism
14. (woman) reserved/modest/shy
Rife
Anachronism
Inundate
Demure
15. Approval; praise
Ingenious
inanimate
Ascetic
Approbation
16. Servant
Impetuous
Hedonist
Lackey
Anomaly
17. Formally display sorrow
Mulish
Elegy
lope
Ennui
18. Bulky glove
Seraphic
Appease
Abdicate
Gauntlet
19. Complete happiness/ expressing
ostracism
Ennui
Felicity
Clamor
20. Brief and concise.
Reverence
Tenuous
succinct
Bungler
21. Make or become fixed; stuck
Pedestrian
Lithe
Magnanimous
Lodge
22. Model; exemplar
Conflagration
Paragon
Pensive
Euphoric
23. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Admonition
hackneyed
Insurrection
Ennui
24. Cheerful - hopeful.
Dissolute
perambulate
sanguine
inanimate
25. Very generous
Dilettante
Munificent
aridity
Hedonist
26. Trickery or fraud
Supplant
Flounder
Chicanery
Sedate
27. Endure pain without showing feeling
Stoical
Hoard
Petulant
Innocuous
28. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Consternation
Tame
Lapel
Remission
29. Accustom to new conditions
Insipid
Recapitulate
Acquiesce
Acclimate
30. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Abdicate
Effervescent
Rancid
Loquacious
31. Lose composure; make agitated
Ostentatious
Abstruse
Fluster
Revue
32. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Exhort
Peal
hangar
Eulogy
33. In widespread practice - use - existence
Hackneyed
Rife
Pusillanimous
Pedagogy
34. Schemer/fisherman
Felicity
Malady
Angler
Errant
35. Of a subject - obscure
Recondite
Valor
Mendacity
Ubiquitous
36. Perplex - confusing
hangar
Derision
bewildering
Corpulent
37. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
quixotic
Recalcitrant
lope
Pensive
38. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Indignation
cynicism
Quant
maudlin
39. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Inundate
Coalesce
Prerogative
Relegate
40. Loud ringing of bells
Blight
vitriol
Peal
foal
41. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
meretricious
Enamel
Eschew
Impetuous
42. Communicate; give to something
Impart
aridity
Promulgate
Libidinous
43. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
Quintessence
Anodyne
Tenuous
Castigate
44. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Surreptitious
Consummate
pariah
Castigate
45. Beggar
Spurn
Mendicant
Approbation
Tenuous
46. Small amount of something; iota
Paucity
Hoard
Quintessence
Domicile
47. Temporary prohibition of activity
Confluence
Moratorium
Lithe
Entomology
48. Lacking in freshness or originality.
Lapel
Fortuitous
Languish
hackneyed
49. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Histrionic
revered
Eminence
Imbue
50. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Promulgate
Paregoric
Memorandum
Pedagogy