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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. Reject with disdain
Angler
bewildering
Spurn
Depot
2. Informal private conversation
Paregoric
Confab
apocryphal
Invective
3. Tall tower used to store grain
Silo
naïvete
succinct
Blight
4. Making harsh/loud noise
Obsequious
Raucous
Revue
chimerical
5. House/repair airplanes
hangar
Rescind
drawl
Ethereal
6. Extreme form of sharpening
Hone
Brackish
Cabal
Appease
7. Loud/confused noise
perambulate
Acclimate
Fickle
Clamor
8. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
masochist
Silo
vitriol
Sedate
9. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Codicil
Pensive
Quintessence
cavalier
10. Slightly salty
Brackish
Tame
Balmy
Modicum
11. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Nadir
Balmy
melancholy
Inane
12. Fault-finding
Lodge
Pedant
hackneyed
Captious
13. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Diatribe
Apex
Gaunt
Reproach
14. Dullness of body/spirit; abnormal drowsy
Paregoric
lethargy
Jibe
Uncanny
15. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Prerogative
Vociferous
Dour
Captious
16. Exhibiting aggression.
belligerent
Diatribe
Paregoric
Indelible
17. Very small/meager
Munificent
Malady
Cavalcade
Paltry
18. Generous/munificent/forgive
Admonition
Tame
revered
Magnanimous
19. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Quant
Promulgate
Begrudge
Pugilist
20. Strange or mysterious
Depot
Chicanery
Semantic
Uncanny
21. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Scowl
Dour
Fickle
Relegate
22. Deviate from standard/normal
Recapitulate
Circuitous
Anomaly
invidious
23. Self-satisfied irritably. Smirk: smile
Smug
Dandy
Pail
Dulcet
24. Store of money or valuable objects
Hoard
hackneyed
Assiduous
Consternation
25. Flood/large amount of water
Inundate
Extirpate
Enamel
serendipity
26. Expert judge in matter of taste
Gaudy
antebellum
Connoisseur
Imbue
27. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Inundate
Hermit
Ire
lope
28. One who suffers without complaining.
Fickle
stoic
choleric
cynicism
29. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
filibuster
Perfunctory
Candid
30. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Scowl
Amulet
Loquacious
Apex
31. Small quantity
Begrudge
Diatribe
Querulous
Modicum
32. Man concern with stylish looks
ostracism
Tractable
Preside
Dandy
33. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Eulogy
Euphoric
serendipity
Loquacious
34. Deadly
Remission
Perfunctory
Denude
Pernicious
35. Bring relief; unlikely to offend
Anodyne
Tirade
Histrionic
cavalier
36. Lose composure; make agitated
belladonna
Dilettante
Fluster
Discombobulate
37. Break/interlude
Troupe
Infringe
Insipid
Hone
38. Angel (light and purity)
Futility
trite
Seraphic
Apprehensive
39. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Insipid
cherubic
Asinine
Anachronism
40. Criticize sharply
Rebuke
Lugubrious
Embroider
bellicose
41. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Subjective
Dolorous
Hone
Kudos
42. Art/practice of disputation.
Exhort
Lackey
polemic
inanimate
43. Place for storage of large commodity
Depot
Ire
Gaunt
Nadir
44. Boxer
cynicism
trite
Pugilist
Ire
45. (of a person) fat
phlegmatic
Corpulent
Paramour
Reproach
46. To flatter/admire excessively.
Demure
Inadvertent
adulation
Errant
47. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
stoic
invidious
cogent
chimerical
48. Fitting/practical (improper?)
Expedient
Pensive
Paltry
Pernicious
49. Inept; insufficient to perform a task
Bungler
Inexorable
Carouse
Impertinent
50. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Balmy
Imbue
Predilection
aridity