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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. Violent uprising against authority
Skirmish
Recalcitrant
Insurrection
barrenness
2. Used by ordinary people; secular
Conflagration
Cabal
Demotic
Carouse
3. Overindulgent sensually; loose moral
Confluence
Gaudy
bewildering
Dissolute
4. Complete happiness/ expressing
Gaunt
Valor
Felicity
lucidity
5. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
serendipity
Consummate
Frivolous
Libidinous
6. Post that holds up a handrail
Spindle
Dogmatic
Downpour
Avarice
7. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Slake
cherubic
Remission
Giddy
8. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Ardent
evanescent
Dolorous
Sterile
9. Warlike
bellicose
Smug
Exorbitant
Paregoric
10. One who suffers without complaining.
Abdicate
Coalesce
Quarry
stoic
11. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Cavalcade
Quintessence
Mulish
Imbue
12. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Inundate
Soporific
Abhor
naïvete
13. Slim; supple; graceful
Lithe
Embroider
Paltry
Troupe
14. Something to vehemently dislike
Petulant
Chicanery
Anathema
lethargy
15. Exhibiting aggression.
Coffer
belligerent
inanimate
Obstinate
16. Massive relentless force
quixotic
juggernaut
Subjective
Tirade
17. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Salient
Indolent
chimerical
Continent
18. Flood/large amount of water
Modicum
Inundate
Pedant
choleric
19. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Modicum
Plethora
Ardent
Dilettante
20. Base - lowest
Nadir
belligerent
stoic
Hone
21. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Acquiesce
Preside
Bland
perfidy
22. Lacking flavor
Insipid
Troupe
cherubic
Bristle
23. Selfish motives
Obsequious
Regression
cynicism
Apprehensive
24. Distasteful/ inconsistency in ideas
Repugnant
Coy
Captious
barrenness
25. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
demagogue
lethargy
Cynical
Frivolous
26. Outcast
Jibe
Pilfer
Peal
pariah
27. Revelry - enjoy one self (noisily)
Carouse
juggernaut
bewildering
Scant
28. Lacking in freshness or originality.
hackneyed
Salient
Parley
Avarice
29. Tastelessly bright or showy
Abhor
Eccentric
Gaudy
Pertinent
30. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Prerogative
Uncanny
Pedant
Chortle
31. To flatter/admire excessively.
chastened
adulation
Munificent
Invective
32. Place for storage of large commodity
Inundate
Depot
Acquiesce
Recalcitrant
33. Denying one's self pleasure
Modicum
Ascetic
Poignant
Moratorium
34. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
choleric
Reprieve
Perfunctory
Ethereal
35. Servant
sybaritic
Gaudy
Lackey
Bland
36. Brief and concise.
Lodge
Comestible
succinct
Derision
37. Trap for catching small animals
Snare
Giddy
Assiduous
Nadir
38. Easily influenced/controlled
Apt
Futility
Amenable
Slake
39. Officially absolve from blame
Mellifluous
Sate (satiate)
trite
Exonerate
40. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Pensive
hangar
Mellifluous
Dogmatic
41. Small amount of something; iota
Paucity
Paltry
Cabal
Clamor
42. Perplex - confusing
bewildering
Contempt
Panacea
Pensive
43. Zenith - pinnacle - highest
perambulate
Gluttony
Jibe
Apex
44. Short simple song
Exhort
stoic
Ditty
Appease
45. Clever/original/inventive
Ingenious
Tame
Pedestrian
Felicity
46. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Semantic
Elegy
Profligate
Slake
47. Profession/science of teaching
Pedagogy
Conducive
Inane
vitriol
48. Lover (against marriage)
Smug
Fortuitous
Paramour
Impertinent
49. Item of food; something eaten
stoic
Derision
Appease
Comestible
50. Man entering frequent sex relation
Philander
Derision
Bland
Histrionic