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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. Speak slowly
Infringe
chastened
drawl
Connoisseur
2. Difficult to understand
Lugubrious
Appease
Abstruse
Nadir
3. A public expression of approval
Scowl
panegyric
Tenuous
Sanctuary
4. Brief and concise.
Relegate
succinct
Mendacity
Recapitulate
5. Fault-finding
Captious
Paregoric
Dour
Perfidious
6. Belonging to another period
Anachronism
Euphoric
Berth
Anodyne
7. Noisy disturbance or quarrel
Philander
Fracas
Domicile
serendipity
8. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Soporific
Reprimand
Hoard
Intractable
9. Feelings of ill will.
vitriol
Munificent
Relegate
Mellifluous
10. Man entering frequent sex relation
Hone
Pert
Philander
cynicism
11. Member of a band
Remission
Angler
Embroider
Brigand
12. Warlike
bellicose
Placebo
Soporific
Regression
13. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Repugnant
Confluence
Codicil
lucidity
14. Only motivated by self-interest
Stoical
Cynical
Ditty
Chicanery
15. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Gluttony
Dour
Continent
Panacea
16. Generous/munificent/forgive
phlegmatic
Magnanimous
cavalier
Gaudy
17. Not sufficiently skillful
Booty
Seraphic
Fortuitous
Incompetent
18. Deviate from standard/normal
Indelible
Impart
Pedant
Anomaly
19. Silly (lacking sense)
Inane
sybaritic
Vociferous
Perfunctory
20. Return to former state
Audacious
Regression
Eminence
Hedonist
21. (girl or woman) attractively lively
Gauntlet
Fortuitous
Invective
Pert
22. Concerned with minor detail
Asinine
Pedant
bewildering
Exorbitant
23. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Chortle
Pensive
Anathema
Dogmatic
24. Overindulgent sensually; loose moral
Fortuitous
Virile
Reprimand
Dissolute
25. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
Tenuous
invidious
Duplicitous
Ascetic
26. Extreme greed for wealth
Avarice
Atelier
adulation
Tractable
27. Study of insects
Bungler
Entomology
Gluttony
Scion
28. Very generous
Munificent
Spurn
Anachronism
Peal
29. Complete happiness/ expressing
Circumlocution
ostracism
Anomaly
Felicity
30. Causing (likely) disagreement
Vociferous
Contentious
Indolent
Bungler
31. Item of food; something eaten
stoic
Comestible
Predilection
Moratorium
32. Bucket
Sterile
Miscreant
Lax
Pail
33. Flood/large amount of water
aridity
Inundate
Paucity
perambulate
34. Clever/original/inventive
Innocuous
belladonna
Ingenious
Lunacy
35. Deadly
Slake
Pernicious
Embroider
aridity
36. Barren; fruitless
Rebuke
serendipity
Sterile
Nadir
37. Longer than most direct way
Circuitous
Pier
Fortuitous
Incompetent
38. Place for storage of large commodity
cogent
Depot
Eminence
Placebo
39. Container storing valuables
Coffer
Titillate
Malady
Approbation
40. Reject with disdain
Modicum
Duplicitous
Spurn
Placebo
41. Small amount of something; iota
Paucity
Pedestrian
Petulant
Disparage
42. Satisfy fully
Sate (satiate)
Jibe
Prerogative
Plethora
43. Heavy rainfall
Scion
Gaudy
Downpour
adulation
44. Mythical beast; unreal.
chimerical
Imbue
chastened
Angler
45. Untruthful
Pertinent
Spurn
Magnanimous
Mendacity
46. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Begrudge
Spurn
Lunacy
Diatribe
47. Perplex - confusing
Approbation
Mulish
Chortle
bewildering
48. Become less intense/widespread
Abate
agnostic
Munificent
Demeanor
49. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
masochist
polemic
Allay
Brigand
50. One who suffers without complaining.
Pert
Scrutiny
stoic
Promulgate