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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. Disease or ailment
Rancid
Scion
Mellifluous
Malady
2. Man entering frequent sex relation
Philander
Giddy
Eminence
Dilettante
3. Excite (i.e. sexual images - words)
Perjury
Titillate
Stoical
Recapitulate
4. Boxer
Pugilist
Chortle
Append
Revue
5. Base - lowest
Elegy
Nadir
maudlin
Rescind
6. Generous/munificent/forgive
Gaunt
Brackish
Magnanimous
Innocuous
7. One living in solitude (religious)
Hermit
Lugubrious
Reverence
cynicism
8. Tending to vanish like vapor.
evanescent
Allay
Appease
Apex
9. Showy (no value); prostitute.
Connoisseur
Spurn
Ardor
meretricious
10. Tall tower used to store grain
melancholy
maudlin
Silo
serendipity
11. Difficult to understand
Allay
revered
Abstruse
Salient
12. Container storing valuables
Apprehensive
Recondite
cherubic
Coffer
13. Strip of covering; make bare
Incompetent
Confluence
Denude
Lithe
14. Something opposite to another
cynicism
Repugnant
obverse
Tirade
15. Denying one's self pleasure
Banal
Append
posh
Ascetic
16. Dryness
Silo
Uncanny
Amenable
aridity
17. Group of entertainers who tour
Candid
Tenuous
Pail
Troupe
18. Strongly encourage or urge to do
Inundate
Inundate
Exhort
Exorbitant
19. Expressing disapproval
Duplicitous
Lunacy
Coalesce
Pejorative
20. Slightly salty
Paucity
lethargy
Rancid
Brackish
21. Temporary prohibition of activity
ostracism
Moratorium
Amulet
Discordant
22. Preference/special liking for
Modicum
Spurn
Predilection
Demoralize
23. Extensive/destructive fire
inanimate
Conflagration
phlegmatic
Hackneyed
24. Tastelessly bright or showy
Gaudy
Austere
Contentious
Anachronism
25. Servant
Histrionic
Avarice
polemic
Lackey
26. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Appease
Booty
bellicose
trite
27. Belief of something/one is useless
Paramour
Obsequious
Contempt
Innocuous
28. Confuse
Desultory
Discombobulate
stoic
Domicile
29. Promote/make widely known
Unanimous
Pedant
Indolent
Promulgate
30. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
behemoth
Dolorous
Blight
Kudos
31. Cancel or take back
Rescind
Felicity
Recalcitrant
Predilection
32. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
behemoth
Dissolute
Abdicate
Boorish
33. Lustful
Perfunctory
Petulant
Expedient
Libidinous
34. Laugh in a gleeful way
Codicil
Chortle
Cavalcade
Pernicious
35. Not resulting from plan
Inadvertent
Recalcitrant
Embroider
Fortuitous
36. Cause to lose confidence/hope
Desultory
Demoralize
Perturb
foal
37. Most noticeable; important
diligence
juggernaut
Downpour
Salient
38. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Perfunctory
chastened
Reprimand
Perfidious
39. Contributing/helping towards
Moratorium
Brigand
Conducive
Eccentric
40. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Reticent
Reverence
Inane
Cavalcade
41. Grow weak/feeble
Lariat
sybaritic
chastened
Languish
42. Too obedient/servile.
Indolent
Relegate
Peal
Obsequious
43. Impossible to stop or prevent
Inexorable
Captious
Ingenious
Demoralize
44. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Parley
Miscreant
Pejorative
Impertinent
45. Beggar
Reproach
Indignation
Mendicant
Lariat
46. Carried out with minimal effort
Perfunctory
Skirmish
Predilection
chimerical
47. Prudent; careful
Discreet
juggernaut
Rebuke
Intractable
48. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
Virile
Comestible
Troupe
49. Heavy rainfall
Downpour
Allay
Seraphic
Ethereal
50. A mischievous person
Strident
Regression
Panacea
Rapscallion