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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. Unproductive of results
Contentious
barrenness
Domicile
Petulant
2. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
Asinine
Unanimous
Ascetic
Lax
3. Insulting/mocking remark
serendipity
Jibe
Demoralize
succinct
4. Acknowledged superiority in
Booty
Eminence
Ostentatious
Brigand
5. Add to end of a document
Append
Invective
Moratorium
Codicil
6. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
sybaritic
Futility
Miscreant
serendipity
7. Act angrily or defensively
Bristle
Unanimous
Carouse
Anodyne
8. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Querulous
Amenable
Prerogative
Candid
9. In widespread practice - use - existence
Rife
Ire
Jibe
obverse
10. Deceptive/deceitful
meretricious
Gaudy
Duplicitous
filibuster
11. End something
Desultory
Fortuitous
Consummate
Codicil
12. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
quixotic
Rancid
Tenuous
Titillate
13. Gather things together
Amalgamate
Anachronism
Exacerbate
Loquacious
14. Tolerant; set as true
Lackey
Placebo
Inane
Dogmatic
15. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
Gauntlet
Angler
Hilt
Dulcet
16. Unoriginal; commonplace
Admonition
Banal
Eccentric
perambulate
17. Place for storage of large commodity
Audacious
Depot
Exhort
Poignant
18. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Docile
Kudos
Histrionic
Subjective
19. Study of insects
Demoralize
Lugubrious
Entomology
bewildering
20. Appropriate - suitable
Incompetent
Mellifluous
vitriol
Apt
21. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Dour
Silo
behemoth
Miscreant
22. Not resulting from plan
Semantic
Imbue
Inadvertent
Confluence
23. Impossible to stop or prevent
succinct
Inexorable
Captious
Discreet
24. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Plethora
Exorbitant
Consummate
Recondite
25. Loud ringing of bells
Peal
Acquiesce
Eschew
hackneyed
26. Like a knight; proud or careless.
cavalier
Nadir
Demoralize
Dilettante
27. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
Candid
Ostentatious
Trowel
Confab
28. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Remission
Seraphic
Recondite
Nadir
29. Container storing valuables
Semantic
Ditty
Subjective
Coffer
30. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
sybaritic
Dandy
Impart
Flounder
31. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Indolent
Impart
Quarry
drawl
32. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
Eminence
Paramour
invidious
Obsequious
33. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Banal
Amulet
Revue
Exhort
34. Complaining in whining manner
Querulous
antebellum
Exacerbate
Futility
35. Naive(artless - ingenuous) remark or action.
Petulant
naïvete
Lapel
hangar
36. Beggar
polemic
Conflagration
Sterile
Mendicant
37. Be in the position of authority
belligerent
Candid
Booty
Preside
38. Bucket
behemoth
phlegmatic
Pail
Soporific
39. Preference/special liking for
Philander
Reprimand
Predilection
Discombobulate
40. Bring relief; unlikely to offend
Rife
Ditty
Amalgamate
Anodyne
41. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Frivolous
Ethereal
Vapid
Berth
42. Slim; supple; graceful
laconic - spartan
Lithe
apocryphal
Giddy
43. Officially absolve from blame
Exonerate
Pilfer
phlegmatic
Paucity
44. House/repair airplanes
Raucous
hangar
diligence
Lariat
45. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Virile
Gaudy
Assiduous
Promulgate
46. Prudent; careful
Revue
Ditty
Discreet
Cynical
47. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Exorbitant
Cavalcade
Regression
Placebo
48. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Perfidious
Imperative
Consternation
aridity
49. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Eulogy
Imbue
Strident
Paregoric
50. Straying from the law
Consternation
Acquiesce
Approbation
Errant