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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Extremely foolish or stupid
Asinine
Smug
Balmy
sanguine
2. Something opposite to another
obverse
Rife
Conducive
Languish
3. Extreme happiness/elated
Acquiesce
Euphoric
Sedate
Felicity
4. Appropriate - suitable
Apt
naïvete
Surreptitious
Avarice
5. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Mendicant
Lapel
Hackneyed
demagogue
6. Barren; fruitless
Sterile
Bristle
Magnanimous
Ditty
7. Man concern with stylish looks
Abdicate
Dandy
Berth
Salient
8. Disease or ailment
Malady
Confab
Ruse
Anomaly
9. Small quantity
Conducive
Modicum
Dogmatic
Ascetic
10. Difficult to understand
Mendacity
Abstruse
demagogue
Paucity
11. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Indolent
Corpulent
obverse
Recondite
12. Prudent; careful
Discombobulate
Anathema
Discreet
Entomology
13. Fashionable.
Perfunctory
posh
Rancid
Reticent
14. Anxiety or dismay.
Trowel
Consternation
Circuitous
bellicose
15. Silly (lacking sense)
Booty
Inane
Asinine
Valor
16. Dull and uninspired
Chortle
Anachronism
Pedestrian
Kudos
17. Causing (likely) disagreement
Histrionic
diligence
Contentious
Append
18. Clever/original/inventive
Felicity
Ingenious
Seraphic
foal
19. Destroy completely
Confab
Comestible
Extirpate
Demeanor
20. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Quarry
Bungler
Repugnant
Inadvertent
21. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Inundate
Prerogative
Contentious
Unanimous
22. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
Boorish
Lax
Candid
cynicism
23. Member of a band
Boorish
Brigand
Unanimous
Pedagogy
24. Contributing/helping towards
Titillate
Quintessence
Conducive
Apex
25. Strange or mysterious
sanguine
quixotic
Uncanny
Pilfer
26. Not reveal thoughts/feelings easily
Mellifluous
Rapscallion
Reticent
Conducive
27. Mild warning; cautionary advice
Extirpate
Admonition
Subjective
Nadir
28. Happen by chance
Brackish
Fortuitous
masochist
Pernicious
29. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Flounder
Quintessence
Anodyne
Expedient
30. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Miscreant
trite
Reproach
Chortle
31. Only seeks personal pleasure
Hedonist
Pedant
Gaunt
Eschew
32. Zenith - pinnacle - highest
Apex
Indolent
cavalier
Scant
33. Denying one's self pleasure
Ascetic
Lodge
Acclimate
Ditty
34. Fully in agreement
cogent
hangar
Pensive
Unanimous
35. Small amount of something; iota
Unanimous
Paucity
Eulogy
succinct
36. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
Scant
Allay
bewildering
Smug
37. Travel over esp. on foot
Imperative
Downpour
perambulate
Candid
38. Untruthful
Mendacity
Clamor
Hilt
Relegate
39. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
demagogue
Tame
Acquiesce
Derision
40. Talkative
Ditty
Loquacious
meretricious
Contempt
41. Capricious; changing mind frequently
belladonna
masochist
Regression
Fickle
42. Strongly held opinion; vehement
lucidity
Vociferous
Rebuke
Scowl
43. Depression of spirits
melancholy
Petulant
Magnanimous
Recondite
44. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Desultory
Virile
Apprehensive
Plethora
45. Noisy disturbance or quarrel
Cynical
Fracas
Recalcitrant
Hoard
46. Lustful
Ethereal
cogent
Promulgate
Libidinous
47. Barely sufficient/adequate
Scant
Inundate
barrenness
perambulate
48. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Vociferous
Repugnant
Impetuous
Confluence
49. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Circumlocution
Contempt
Scowl
Lugubrious
50. Slim; supple; graceful
Bungler
Append
Lithe
Amenable