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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. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
Allay
Regression
bewildering
2. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Prerogative
Contempt
Circuitous
Snare
3. Return to former state
Bristle
Regression
Quintessence
Snare
4. Loud and harsh
Strident
quixotic
Insipid
agnostic
5. Entertainment of sketches/song/dance
Vociferous
Revue
barrenness
choleric
6. Deadly
Vapid
Demeanor
Placebo
Pernicious
7. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Munificent
Reverence
Quant
Scrutiny
8. Tall tower used to store grain
Gaudy
Silo
Tame
obverse
9. Only seeks personal pleasure
Hedonist
Rapscallion
Impart
Cabal
10. Strange or mysterious
Demotic
Uncanny
Solace
Denude
11. Part of a suit
Consummate
Abhor
Insurrection
Lapel
12. (of a sound) - sweet and soothing
Amulet
Dulcet
phlegmatic
Gaunt
13. Medicinal extract.
Peal
Pilfer
Carouse
belladonna
14. Country of one's permanent stay
Munificent
Domicile
Connoisseur
Avarice
15. Impatient/bad-tempered
Petulant
chimerical
obverse
Audacious
16. Mournful/sad/dismay
Skirmish
Abstruse
Lugubrious
lucidity
17. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
Virile
Approbation
Scrutiny
18. Cancel punishment of
Profligate
Innocuous
Reprieve
Fluster
19. Comfort; consolation times of distress
Chicanery
Acclimate
Solace
Boorish
20. Art/practice of disputation.
polemic
Brackish
Dulcet
Pert
21. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Paltry
Acquiesce
Innocuous
Ennui
22. Fault-finding
Contentious
Unanimous
Effervescent
Captious
23. Of a subject - obscure
Bungler
Recondite
polemic
Depot
24. Extreme greed for wealth
hangar
Demotic
Avarice
Plethora
25. Preference/special liking for
serendipity
Predilection
Inundate
Lunacy
26. Depression of spirits
Cavalcade
melancholy
Gluttony
Gauntlet
27. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Domicile
Titillate
sybaritic
Exorbitant
28. Feelings of ill will.
Scion
Confluence
vitriol
Loquacious
29. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
Garish
Audacious
melancholy
Abstruse
30. Anger
antebellum
Disparage
Ire
Anachronism
31. Complaining in whining manner
Querulous
Plethora
Hackneyed
Ditty
32. Represent as little worth; scorn
Disparage
Dogmatic
Angler
Insurrection
33. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Balmy
Inexorable
Fracas
Consummate
34. Study of insects
Blight
Inane
Entomology
sanguine
35. Base - lowest
revered
Nadir
Inundate
Imbue
36. Strip of covering; make bare
Denude
Downpour
Apex
Predilection
37. Relieve/end fear/pain/concern
Magnanimous
Quintessence
melancholy
Allay
38. Not resulting from plan
Histrionic
juggernaut
Imbue
Inadvertent
39. Fully in agreement
Unanimous
Promulgate
Philander
Duplicitous
40. Regard with hatred
Magnanimous
Invective
Abhor
Ascetic
41. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Plethora
Effervescent
Dissolute
Sterile
42. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
Promulgate
Fortuitous
Acquiesce
masochist
43. Communicate; give to something
Domicile
hangar
Dandy
Impart
44. Model; exemplar
Pedant
Paragon
Berth
Salient
45. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Ostentatious
lucidity
Ubiquitous
Memorandum
46. Not having life.
Cabal
chastened
Recondite
inanimate
47. Placate by acceding their demands
Lariat
Paragon
Appease
Smug
48. Lover (against marriage)
aridity
Pejorative
Reproach
Paramour
49. Something opposite to another
obverse
Dandy
phlegmatic
Placebo
50. Sew
adulation
Extol
Demeanor
Embroider