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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. Become less intense/widespread
Balmy
Nefarious
Abate
Slake
2. Placate by acceding their demands
Smug
Perturb
Appease
Recondite
3. Informal private conversation
Libidinous
Bland
Confab
laconic - spartan
4. Speak slowly
drawl
Rebuke
stoic
invidious
5. Only motivated by self-interest
Exhort
Coalesce
Cynical
antebellum
6. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Diatribe
Downpour
Amulet
Circumlocution
7. Trickery or fraud
Promulgate
diligence
Abdicate
Chicanery
8. Tall tower used to store grain
Conflagration
Reproach
Silo
Depot
9. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
Spurn
masochist
Berth
Pier
10. Excessively detailed; boring
Pedant
Intractable
bellicose
Indolent
11. Pretentious/showy; to impress
Ostentatious
phlegmatic
Discreet
Disparage
12. Relevant/applicable to some matter
Inexorable
Pertinent
Ascetic
Pusillanimous
13. Restate
inanimate
Pugilist
Recapitulate
Coffer
14. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Imbue
Inundate
belladonna
Indolent
15. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Derision
Conflagration
Abate
Eulogy
16. Accustom to new conditions
Miscreant
Acclimate
Apprehensive
sybaritic
17. Long speech of angry criticism
Tirade
Relegate
Circumlocution
Denude
18. Tastelessly bright or showy
demagogue
Gaudy
Amalgamate
Confab
19. Difficult to understand
inanimate
Bristle
Perfunctory
Abstruse
20. Destroy completely
Libidinous
Extirpate
masochist
Reverence
21. Tending to vanish like vapor.
evanescent
Reticent
Profusion
Histrionic
22. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Paramour
Exorbitant
Plethora
Circuitous
23. Submissive
Exacerbate
Mulish
Docile
Tractable
24. Dull and uninspired
Profligate
Pedestrian
Depot
Peal
25. Lack courage dastard (coward)
bewildering
Unanimous
Pusillanimous
Entomology
26. Warlike
Valor
bellicose
Repugnant
Anachronism
27. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
diligence
Cavalcade
Consummate
Strident
28. Envy the possession/enjoyment of
Begrudge
polemic
Apprehensive
Raucous
29. Assign inferior rank to
Dogmatic
Perjury
Relegate
Mendacity
30. Impatient/bad-tempered
Petulant
Gaudy
Tame
Enamel
31. Item of food; something eaten
Assiduous
obverse
Paragon
Comestible
32. Small quantity
Corpulent
Dour
Clamor
Modicum
33. Feelings of ill will.
Gaunt
choleric
Panacea
vitriol
34. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Abate
Semantic
Impetuous
Admonition
35. Like a knight; proud or careless.
cavalier
apocryphal
Apprehensive
Brackish
36. Grow weak/feeble
Lugubrious
Apex
Ardent
Languish
37. Outward behavior
Paucity
Sterile
Inane
Demeanor
38. Cheerful - hopeful.
behemoth
Demotic
Malady
sanguine
39. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Subjective
Amalgamate
Miscreant
Eminence
40. Descendant (notable - long family)
Scion
Gauntlet
Mendacity
Demeanor
41. Insanity
vitriol
Ostentatious
Abstruse
Lunacy
42. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Blight
Magnanimous
Reticent
Confluence
43. Cancel punishment of
Miscreant
Reprieve
Sterile
Paragon
44. Deviate from standard/normal
Apt
Anomaly
Assiduous
Mellifluous
45. Not reveal thoughts/feelings easily
Virile
Reticent
Brackish
demagogue
46. Recklessly daring
Audacious
Pilfer
Brigand
Malady
47. Group of entertainers who tour
Troupe
polemic
Dissolute
Inexorable
48. Reject with disdain
Acquiesce
Spurn
Snare
Malady
49. Exhibiting aggression.
Consummate
Hermit
belligerent
Hoard
50. Entertainment of sketches/song/dance
phlegmatic
belligerent
Revue
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