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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. Insulting/mocking remark
Demoralize
Ardor
Jibe
Demure
2. Grow weak/feeble
Scowl
Felicity
adulation
Languish
3. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
stoic
Inundate
Hone
Reprimand
4. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
Impetuous
Munificent
sanguine
5. Not harmful or offensive
Derision
Innocuous
Extirpate
bellicose
6. Informal private conversation
Pedant
Confab
Depot
Ennui
7. Show great care and perseverance
behemoth
Assiduous
Promulgate
pariah
8. Promote/make widely known
Promulgate
Chicanery
Anomaly
Supplant
9. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Indolent
Balmy
Moratorium
Surreptitious
10. Extreme greed for wealth
sybaritic
Obsequious
Rapscallion
Avarice
11. Unconventional/slightly strange
Vociferous
masochist
Eccentric
Conflagration
12. Reject with disdain
Lapel
Spurn
Amulet
Anathema
13. Trap for catching small animals
Exonerate
Snare
Scowl
Disparage
14. Addition to a will
Codicil
Poignant
Fluster
perfidy
15. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
Rapscallion
antebellum
Hilt
Tame
16. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
Promulgate
Innocuous
Apprehensive
maudlin
17. Complaining in whining manner
Fracas
cavalier
Recalcitrant
Querulous
18. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Sterile
Errant
Demure
Ethereal
19. Offering nothing challenging
Scowl
demagogue
Hilt
Vapid
20. Lacking in freshness or originality.
Soporific
Solace
hackneyed
cynicism
21. Lying under oath
Preside
masochist
Perjury
Insipid
22. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Exorbitant
serendipity
Inundate
Solace
23. A hospital
Infirmary
Recondite
Flounder
Vapid
24. Express disapproval in action
Mendicant
Berth
Vapid
Reproach
25. Tending to vanish like vapor.
evanescent
Innocuous
Spindle
Clamor
26. End something
phlegmatic
Consummate
Chortle
perfidy
27. Stubborn to change one's mind
Obstinate
Raucous
Felicity
Promulgate
28. Place for storage of large commodity
Brackish
Diatribe
seraphic
Depot
29. Hard to control/deal with
Petulant
Ennui
Intractable
Depot
30. Violent uprising against authority
Insurrection
Lariat
Quant
pariah
31. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Tirade
Derision
Comestible
Cavalcade
32. Not resulting from plan
Imperative
Inadvertent
Loquacious
Admonition
33. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Incompetent
Pert
Avarice
Mulish
34. One who suffers without complaining.
stoic
Ardent
Bland
Hilt
35. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Dilettante
Solace
barrenness
Appease
36. Saying much in few words; brief.
Contempt
Hackneyed
laconic - spartan
Appease
37. Shun or avoid
Brigand
Eschew
Lapel
Cavalcade
38. Perplex - confusing
bewildering
phlegmatic
Bristle
Acclimate
39. Lack courage dastard (coward)
Skirmish
Plethora
Pusillanimous
Ardent
40. Landing stage for boats/ entertainment
Frivolous
Pier
Fulminate
Reticent
41. Cheerful - hopeful.
Cavalcade
Ostentatious
Paucity
sanguine
42. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Flounder
drawl
Hermit
Nadir
43. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Gaunt
Prerogative
Entomology
agnostic
44. Secret political faction in collusion
Exacerbate
Cabal
Euphoric
antebellum
45. Mournful/sad/dismay
Anodyne
Lugubrious
Dilettante
Anachronism
46. Carried out with minimal effort
Allay
Hackneyed
Perfunctory
Repugnant
47. Reject with disdain
Spurn
Indolent
Regression
Sterile
48. Give up or become compliant
Futility
Tractable
Rebuke
Obsequious
49. Communicate; give to something
Blight
Tirade
Impart
Rancid
50. Criticize sharply
Rebuke
Dour
belladonna
Fulminate