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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. Not sufficiently skillful
polemic
Rapscallion
Incompetent
Munificent
2. Generous/munificent/forgive
Dulcet
drawl
Cynical
Magnanimous
3. Pretentious/showy; to impress
Raucous
pariah
Lapel
Ostentatious
4. Restate
Mellifluous
obverse
Paucity
Recapitulate
5. Part of a suit
Lapel
Lackey
Consternation
Demoralize
6. Container storing valuables
Enamel
Inadvertent
Coffer
masochist
7. Place of refuge/safety
hackneyed
Sanctuary
Acquiesce
polemic
8. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Indolent
Paregoric
Remission
Confluence
9. An episode of irregular fighting
Skirmish
Fickle
Indolent
Ubiquitous
10. Of vital importance; requisite
Blight
Inexorable
Imperative
apocryphal
11. Laugh in a gleeful way
Nefarious
Downpour
Quant
Chortle
12. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Vociferous
phlegmatic
Diatribe
Fickle
13. Fake substitute for a drug
Raucous
Lodge
Effervescent
Placebo
14. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Surreptitious
Abstruse
Expedient
Rancid
15. Barely sufficient/adequate
cavalier
Exacerbate
Invective
Scant
16. Wordy (fewer would do)
Pugilist
Circumlocution
sybaritic
Gaudy
17. Depression of spirits
Sterile
melancholy
Paragon
Exacerbate
18. Cancel or take back
Avarice
adulation
Exonerate
Rescind
19. Concerned with minor detail
Pedant
melancholy
Quarry
cogent
20. (of a person) fat
Conducive
Chicanery
Corpulent
Errant
21. Very generous
Munificent
phlegmatic
ostracism
Gaudy
22. Medicinal extract.
Poignant
lucidity
Blight
belladonna
23. Warlike
Tame
Infringe
bellicose
Dulcet
24. Rope used as a lasso
Memorandum
Lariat
apocryphal
Audacious
25. Deep respect
Approbation
Remission
Reverence
Demoralize
26. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
belligerent
Querulous
Blight
Tractable
27. Store of money or valuable objects
Hoard
Lugubrious
Avarice
masochist
28. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
Histrionic
Gauntlet
Garish
Loquacious
29. Praise enthusiastically
Extol
Avarice
Euphoric
Gluttony
30. Recklessly daring
Audacious
foal
Salient
Appease
31. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
foal
Booty
Innocuous
Allay
32. Represent as little worth; scorn
Pertinent
Disparage
choleric
Troupe
33. Dryness
inanimate
Spurn
aridity
diligence
34. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
behemoth
naïvete
filibuster
Preside
35. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Amenable
Prerogative
Fickle
Elegy
36. Beggar
Apex
masochist
Troupe
Mendicant
37. Very small/meager
Paltry
Stoical
perambulate
Brigand
38. Become less intense/widespread
Dour
Vapid
Abate
Connoisseur
39. Young horse
foal
sybaritic
belligerent
Carouse
40. Comfort; consolation times of distress
Chortle
Appease
Solace
Entomology
41. Formally display sorrow
Nadir
Amalgamate
Perfidious
Elegy
42. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
Ditty
Impetuous
maudlin
Hackneyed
43. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Mellifluous
Allay
Scion
meretricious
44. Prudent; careful
Surreptitious
Sate (satiate)
Discreet
Sterile
45. Add to end of a document
Berth
Strident
Append
Lackey
46. A lover of luxury.
sybaritic
Circumlocution
Perfidious
Petulant
47. Show great care and perseverance
Anodyne
Assiduous
Candid
Eminence
48. Tending to vanish like vapor.
adulation
Innocuous
Miscreant
evanescent
49. Strict in manner; extremely simple
Avarice
Austere
Lugubrious
Errant
50. Loud and harsh
Pail
Strident
sybaritic
Invective