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PCAT Vocab2
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pcat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To flatter/admire excessively.
Futility
adulation
Dandy
Ennui
2. Loud/confused noise
Clamor
Brigand
Fluster
Reverence
3. Favorable
Stoical
Querulous
Effervescent
Auspicious
4. Self-satisfied irritably. Smirk: smile
Smug
Consummate
Append
Entomology
5. Difficult to understand
Abstruse
Repugnant
obverse
Abhor
6. Lose composure; make agitated
Exonerate
filibuster
Fluster
Desultory
7. Disease or ailment
Malady
Enamel
Candid
Vociferous
8. Criticize sharply
Querulous
demagogue
Rebuke
Promulgate
9. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Insurrection
Pert
Peal
Paragon
10. Having no fear
cogent
Vociferous
Intrepid
perfidy
11. Store of money or valuable objects
cogent
Fulminate
Recapitulate
Hoard
12. Promote/make widely known
Recondite
Promulgate
Seraphic
Inane
13. Strip of covering; make bare
Coy
Denude
Revue
Amenable
14. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Titillate
panegyric
Ethereal
Raucous
15. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Gaudy
Hermit
agnostic
Pilfer
16. Of a subject - obscure
Recondite
Kudos
panegyric
Snare
17. Container storing valuables
juggernaut
Recapitulate
Coffer
behemoth
18. House/repair airplanes
hangar
Futility
Dandy
agnostic
19. Bring together to form a whole
Ire
Lunacy
Coalesce
Extirpate
20. Not resulting from plan
Captious
Languish
Inadvertent
Pail
21. Greatly honored.
revered
Conducive
vitriol
panegyric
22. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Ardent
Smug
Amulet
Connoisseur
23. Express disapproval; reprove
Modicum
Desultory
cogent
Reprimand
24. Silly (lacking sense)
Inane
Derision
succinct
Candid
25. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Intrepid
Parley
Exonerate
Surreptitious
26. Be in the position of authority
Troupe
Preside
phlegmatic
Repugnant
27. Praise and honor
Ubiquitous
Connoisseur
Kudos
Pert
28. Travel over esp. on foot
Rife
Rancid
Histrionic
perambulate
29. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
polemic
Scion
Jibe
Panacea
30. Capricious; changing mind frequently
apocryphal
Indolent
Fickle
Castigate
31. Abusive/highly critical language
Invective
Ardor
Surreptitious
Paucity
32. Slightly salty
Plethora
apocryphal
Brackish
Apex
33. Worn-out/ordinary; lackluster
Hackneyed
Tenuous
Munificent
Angler
34. Shun or avoid
aridity
Scion
Eschew
Giddy
35. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
lope
Fracas
Impetuous
Codicil
36. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Extol
Slake
Continent
Confab
37. A mischievous person
Rapscallion
Supplant
Derision
Pensive
38. Cause to lose confidence/hope
Demoralize
Dilettante
Imbue
Pejorative
39. Prudent; careful
Tenuous
Petulant
Discreet
Skirmish
40. Offering nothing challenging
Vapid
Mendacity
Boorish
Valor
41. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Mendicant
Bristle
Blight
hangar
42. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Modicum
Elegy
Plethora
drawl
43. Informal private conversation
Confab
Continent
Depot
Acclimate
44. Warlike
Spurn
Virile
Reticent
bellicose
45. End something
Virile
Infirmary
Recalcitrant
Consummate
46. A studio (where sculpture works)
Eulogy
Atelier
Lax
Reverence
47. Short simple song
Ditty
Lariat
Impertinent
Dour
48. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Clamor
hangar
Perfidious
barrenness
49. Bring relief; unlikely to offend
Desultory
Derision
Intrepid
Anodyne
50. Straying from the law
Begrudge
Errant
Corpulent
adulation