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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. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Recondite
Coy
Ennui
Chicanery
2. Denying one's self pleasure
Loquacious
Sterile
sybaritic
Ascetic
3. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Lapel
Smug
Panacea
barrenness
4. Extreme happiness/elated
Euphoric
Inadvertent
Discordant
Amenable
5. Small amount of something; iota
sybaritic
Paltry
barrenness
Paucity
6. Give up or become compliant
Circumlocution
Tractable
Asinine
Ubiquitous
7. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Inundate
Brackish
chimerical
Munificent
8. Travel over esp. on foot
melancholy
perambulate
Conflagration
vitriol
9. Confuse
filibuster
agnostic
pariah
Discombobulate
10. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
masochist
bellicose
evanescent
Moratorium
11. Loud ringing of bells
Extirpate
Cavalcade
Peal
Ingenious
12. Heavy rainfall
Conducive
Trowel
Pail
Downpour
13. Gather things together
Amalgamate
Apt
Pedant
Appease
14. Fitting/practical (improper?)
Expedient
Infringe
Coalesce
Vociferous
15. Fault-finding
Captious
bellicose
Inane
perambulate
16. Excite (i.e. sexual images - words)
Continent
Rife
Inadvertent
Titillate
17. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Ethereal
Profligate
Chortle
Innocuous
18. Endure pain without showing feeling
chimerical
Acquiesce
Stoical
Rapscallion
19. Store of money or valuable objects
Smug
Hoard
Ire
Dilettante
20. Dull and uninspired
Peal
Pedestrian
Tractable
Spurn
21. Accustom to new conditions
Mendicant
Acclimate
Subjective
chastened
22. Of vital importance; requisite
Balmy
Imperative
Append
Tractable
23. Having power; convincing
succinct
Confluence
Hoard
cogent
24. Submissive
Imbue
Derision
Snare
Docile
25. (of a person) fat
cherubic
Petulant
Corpulent
cynicism
26. Perplex - confusing
Modicum
bewildering
Dilettante
Connoisseur
27. Only seeks personal pleasure
choleric
Ingenious
Malady
Hedonist
28. Critical observation/examination
Rescind
Ascetic
Scrutiny
Modicum
29. Exhibiting aggression.
Audacious
Diatribe
Hilt
belligerent
30. Sorrowful
Dolorous
Ardent
Munificent
Tame
31. Not harmful or offensive
Recalcitrant
Desultory
Pilfer
Innocuous
32. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
invidious
Panacea
Loquacious
Pilfer
33. Bulky glove
Gauntlet
Ubiquitous
Amulet
ostracism
34. Cancel or take back
Rescind
Imbue
Lithe
Dilettante
35. Impatient/bad-tempered
Dissolute
Inundate
Kudos
Petulant
36. Violation of faith or loyalty
Vociferous
Strident
perfidy
Consummate
37. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
trite
Nadir
Dandy
Relegate
38. Entertainment of sketches/song/dance
Berth
Perfidious
Tirade
Revue
39. Meeting between sides in a dispute
Mendicant
Fluster
Parley
polemic
40. Warlike
Berth
Vapid
bellicose
Avarice
41. Junction of two rivers; merging
Felicity
Imbue
Confluence
hangar
42. Dizzy
Giddy
hangar
Tame
Auspicious
43. A lover of luxury.
filibuster
Bland
sybaritic
Conducive
44. House/repair airplanes
Silo
pariah
hangar
Brigand
45. Favorable
Recondite
chimerical
Auspicious
Anachronism
46. Complete happiness/ expressing
Modicum
Felicity
lope
Predilection
47. Used by ordinary people; secular
Vociferous
Rapscallion
Demotic
Ascetic
48. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Salient
cavalier
Ubiquitous
bellicose
49. Sew
Embroider
Lodge
Spindle
Tenuous
50. An episode of irregular fighting
Stoical
Snare
Skirmish
Consummate