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PCAT Vocab2
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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. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Smug
Miscreant
Perfunctory
Valor
2. Submissive
Assiduous
Ardent
Impetuous
Docile
3. Be in the position of authority
Invective
Preside
panegyric
Audacious
4. Selfish motives
cynicism
evanescent
Blight
chastened
5. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Ostentatious
Virile
barrenness
Paregoric
6. Unoriginal; commonplace
Quintessence
Poignant
Banal
Profusion
7. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Histrionic
Sterile
evanescent
Insipid
8. Endure pain without showing feeling
Derision
Stoical
Salient
Seraphic
9. Fully in agreement
Inexorable
Dulcet
Imbue
Unanimous
10. Steal (things of little value)
Pilfer
juggernaut
Libidinous
evanescent
11. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
Exhort
Appease
Gaunt
Confluence
12. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Diatribe
Conflagration
Bland
melancholy
13. Great enthusiasm/passion
Lugubrious
Ardor
Rife
Blight
14. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
Relegate
Blight
inanimate
maudlin
15. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Exhort
Effervescent
behemoth
Extirpate
16. Show great care and perseverance
Downpour
Apprehensive
Dilettante
Assiduous
17. Very generous
Munificent
Abhor
Dogmatic
Titillate
18. Irritated - angry.
Confab
Slake
Ascetic
choleric
19. Showy (no value); prostitute.
Jibe
Avarice
Discordant
meretricious
20. Evoke keen sense of sadness/regret
Eschew
apocryphal
Seraphic
Poignant
21. Formally display sorrow
Garish
Titillate
Elegy
naïvete
22. Violation of faith or loyalty
Amulet
perfidy
Ostentatious
barrenness
23. Large amount of something; myriad
panegyric
Rancid
Tenuous
Profusion
24. Make (something bad) worse
Querulous
filibuster
Imperative
Exacerbate
25. Contributing/helping towards
Conducive
Flounder
behemoth
Lithe
26. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
trite
Subjective
Valor
Skirmish
27. Prudent; careful
Rescind
antebellum
Discreet
Sate (satiate)
28. Excessively detailed; boring
Pedant
Poignant
Paragon
Pervasive
29. Dizzy
vitriol
invidious
Giddy
Inadvertent
30. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Bristle
Salient
Asinine
Candid
31. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Demure
Connoisseur
demagogue
behemoth
32. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
belligerent
Scant
Hilt
Dissolute
33. Trickery or fraud
Anomaly
Chicanery
Inexorable
Hermit
34. Break/interlude
Elegy
perfidy
Infringe
Reverence
35. Saying much in few words; brief.
Loquacious
Connoisseur
laconic - spartan
Mulish
36. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Scion
Indignation
Scowl
belligerent
37. Schemer/fisherman
Invective
Angler
cavalier
Scant
38. Junction of two rivers; merging
Confluence
Demure
Acclimate
Pedestrian
39. Criticize sharply
Disparage
Tenuous
Asinine
Rebuke
40. Not canonical (accepted principle esp in church).
Paramour
Parley
apocryphal
trite
41. (of a person) fat
Pedagogy
Corpulent
Ire
Slake
42. Offering nothing challenging
Paltry
Regression
Vapid
Impertinent
43. Restate
aridity
Fortuitous
Recapitulate
Spindle
44. Informal private conversation
Placebo
Impertinent
Gauntlet
Confab
45. Addition to a will
Codicil
antebellum
Pier
Apex
46. Lacking flavor
Insipid
bellicose
Peal
Bungler
47. (woman) reserved/modest/shy
Indelible
seraphic
Asinine
Demure
48. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Cabal
Recalcitrant
Subjective
Gaunt
49. Boxer
Futility
Auspicious
Flounder
Pugilist
50. Happen by chance
Fortuitous
Discordant
Quarry
barrenness