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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. Self-resistant (sexually)
Bungler
Mulish
Continent
Assiduous
2. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Appease
Salient
Surreptitious
Lunacy
3. Hard to control/deal with
adulation
Intractable
Preside
Demure
4. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Recapitulate
Comestible
Imbue
Repugnant
5. Base - lowest
Nadir
Cavalcade
Kudos
Booty
6. Accept passively (give in); accede
cogent
Errant
Tame
Acquiesce
7. Show great care and perseverance
Assiduous
Dour
seraphic
Begrudge
8. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Subjective
behemoth
Circuitous
Anachronism
9. Saying much in few words; brief.
Raucous
Errant
laconic - spartan
cogent
10. Distasteful/ inconsistency in ideas
Loquacious
Repugnant
Dilettante
Balmy
11. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Eulogy
Castigate
adulation
Begrudge
12. Slightly salty
Reproach
Brackish
Pensive
Confab
13. Mythical beast; unreal.
chimerical
Inadvertent
Circuitous
panegyric
14. Highest order of angels
Demotic
Coalesce
Atelier
seraphic
15. Written message (diplomacy)
Asinine
Pert
Chicanery
Memorandum
16. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Paregoric
Impart
Fickle
phlegmatic
17. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
filibuster
Vapid
Paregoric
Lackey
18. Descendant (notable - long family)
seraphic
Perfidious
Ethereal
Scion
19. Acknowledged superiority in
Querulous
Eminence
Continent
Fracas
20. Of a subject - obscure
Hackneyed
lucidity
Bungler
Recondite
21. Outcast
Libidinous
Inadvertent
Slake
pariah
22. Have no serious purpose/value
Paregoric
Frivolous
Infringe
Indignation
23. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
foal
Lax
Consummate
maudlin
24. Envy the possession/enjoyment of
Begrudge
Paucity
Seraphic
Balmy
25. Man concern with stylish looks
Supplant
Fracas
Conducive
Dandy
26. Lack harmony; conflicting
Exonerate
Pejorative
Discordant
Paregoric
27. Obstinately uncooperative
Exhort
Gaudy
Recalcitrant
Pert
28. Easily influenced/controlled
apocryphal
Apt
Amenable
Scant
29. Cheerful - hopeful.
hackneyed
sanguine
Miscreant
panegyric
30. Loud/confused noise
Hermit
Cynical
Clamor
agnostic
31. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
cynicism
Paramour
Silo
32. Based on personal feeling/opinion
sybaritic
Tenuous
Subjective
Titillate
33. Dryness
masochist
aridity
Coffer
Pedant
34. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
agnostic
Reprimand
Regression
Exonerate
35. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
sybaritic
Enamel
Malady
Rebuke
36. Feelings of ill will.
Cabal
Prerogative
Appease
vitriol
37. Strange or mysterious
Trowel
Extirpate
Uncanny
Paucity
38. Place of refuge/safety
Confluence
masochist
Sanctuary
stoic
39. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Indignation
Valor
hangar
Eschew
40. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Paragon
Eschew
Virile
Hackneyed
41. Small quantity
Lackey
Confab
Modicum
Diatribe
42. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Exorbitant
Languish
Sanctuary
Paramour
43. Expressing disapproval
Unanimous
Contempt
Pejorative
Intractable
44. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Histrionic
Impetuous
Subjective
Salient
45. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Infirmary
Paregoric
Perfidious
Eccentric
46. Medicinal extract.
Imbue
belladonna
Coy
barrenness
47. Greatly honored.
revered
Quarry
Cynical
Exacerbate
48. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Mellifluous
Silo
Cynical
Austere
49. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Corpulent
Contentious
Loquacious
Panacea
50. Dull and uninspired
Modicum
Garish
Pedestrian
Dolorous