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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. Steal (things of little value)
Circumlocution
Pilfer
Valor
Seraphic
2. Sew
Embroider
Pier
Circumlocution
foal
3. Store of money or valuable objects
Ditty
Conflagration
Hoard
Duplicitous
4. Secret political faction in collusion
Lunacy
Cabal
Flounder
Mellifluous
5. Greatly honored.
revered
Expedient
Supplant
Assiduous
6. Small quantity
Modicum
Allay
Chortle
Perturb
7. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Inundate
Embroider
Tame
Berth
8. Loud ringing of bells
Raucous
Bristle
Peal
Exonerate
9. (of a person) fat
Confab
Discombobulate
Corpulent
Languish
10. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
Elegy
demagogue
chastened
Hone
11. Express vehement protest
Pejorative
Reprieve
Consummate
Fulminate
12. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
Poignant
Tenuous
Boorish
Relegate
13. Mournful/sad/dismay
Lugubrious
Domicile
Placebo
Coffer
14. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
belladonna
Rife
maudlin
Gaunt
15. Making harsh/loud noise
Gauntlet
Anachronism
Raucous
stoic
16. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Garish
Perfunctory
Salient
Inundate
17. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Captious
Pensive
Pugilist
Invective
18. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Imbue
Audacious
Abate
Cavalcade
19. Fault-finding
Captious
Strident
cynicism
Brigand
20. Belonging to another period
Fluster
Candid
Anachronism
sanguine
21. Replace
Supplant
Hoard
Paltry
Invective
22. Exhibiting aggression.
Modicum
belligerent
Sterile
Pedestrian
23. Excessive in eating
Modicum
Gluttony
Hedonist
Libidinous
24. Return to former state
Exorbitant
Regression
Parley
Scrutiny
25. House/repair airplanes
hangar
Extol
choleric
stoic
26. Boxer
Solace
Troupe
Brackish
Pugilist
27. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Quarry
Kudos
Troupe
Extol
28. Stubborn to change one's mind
Impertinent
Coalesce
Obstinate
Contentious
29. Trickery or fraud
Hedonist
Solace
Chicanery
Poignant
30. Relate to meaning in language/logic
Semantic
Imbue
laconic - spartan
Apex
31. Excessively detailed; boring
Angler
Pedant
Ire
revered
32. Generous/munificent/forgive
Avarice
Magnanimous
Bristle
Indelible
33. Used by ordinary people; secular
quixotic
panegyric
Preside
Demotic
34. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
Surreptitious
Valor
Dogmatic
Seraphic
35. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Begrudge
Pedant
Trowel
lope
36. Wordy (fewer would do)
Kudos
Circumlocution
Lithe
Intractable
37. Unconventional/slightly strange
Modicum
Amalgamate
Eccentric
Perjury
38. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Panacea
Memorandum
Pail
Scowl
39. Resign/give up
ostracism
Effervescent
Rapscallion
Abdicate
40. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Infringe
Innocuous
Exorbitant
pariah
41. Unoriginal; commonplace
Embroider
Ire
belligerent
Banal
42. Communicate; give to something
stoic
Impart
Fickle
Coffer
43. Hard to control/deal with
Mulish
Pervasive
Recalcitrant
Intractable
44. Appropriate - suitable
Apex
melancholy
Apt
Balmy
45. Straying from the law
Sate (satiate)
Admonition
Errant
Allay
46. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
drawl
juggernaut
Balmy
posh
47. Outcast
pariah
Exhort
Rebuke
invidious
48. Depression of spirits
melancholy
Preside
Mendicant
Pertinent
49. Regard with hatred
Gaudy
Vapid
Sterile
Abhor
50. Descendant (notable - long family)
lethargy
Coalesce
Scion
Appease