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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. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Paramour
Perfidious
Conflagration
Elegy
2. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Reverence
Scowl
Acquiesce
foal
3. Base - lowest
Paregoric
Nadir
Strident
belladonna
4. Acknowledged superiority in
stoic
Brackish
Eminence
Subjective
5. Junction of two rivers; merging
Confluence
Recondite
Lithe
Ascetic
6. Mild warning; cautionary advice
stoic
Lax
Confab
Admonition
7. Mythical beast; unreal.
Insurrection
Inadvertent
aridity
chimerical
8. Permanent
Obsequious
Indelible
Dolorous
Subjective
9. Extreme happiness/elated
Euphoric
Surreptitious
Pail
Indignation
10. Promote/make widely known
Auspicious
Booty
Promulgate
Coalesce
11. Insulting/mocking remark
Ennui
Jibe
Spindle
Anodyne
12. To exclude from a group by common consent.
laconic - spartan
diligence
ostracism
Discreet
13. Part of a suit
Demoralize
Downpour
Conducive
Lapel
14. Massive relentless force
juggernaut
Memorandum
Inundate
Spindle
15. Speak slowly
drawl
Recalcitrant
Docile
hangar
16. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
filibuster
Perturb
Austere
Lodge
17. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Tractable
Inundate
Circumlocution
phlegmatic
18. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Lugubrious
obverse
Libidinous
Subjective
19. Fake substitute for a drug
perambulate
Placebo
Smug
aridity
20. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
Valor
Intractable
polemic
Slake
21. Bulky glove
Fickle
Austere
Gauntlet
Lodge
22. Anxiety or dismay.
Peal
Candid
Bristle
Consternation
23. Overindulgent sensually; loose moral
Recondite
Imperative
Innocuous
Dissolute
24. Calm; unhurried
Sedate
Surreptitious
Gaunt
Scant
25. Deadly
Flounder
Pernicious
Spurn
Querulous
26. Wordy (fewer would do)
Pervasive
Slake
Mendicant
Circumlocution
27. Assign inferior rank to
polemic
Reverence
melancholy
Relegate
28. A mischievous person
Rapscallion
Skirmish
Fulminate
melancholy
29. Easily influenced/controlled
Amenable
Circumlocution
Desultory
Ardent
30. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
drawl
Discombobulate
agnostic
behemoth
31. Great enthusiasm/passion
Placebo
Blight
Demoralize
Ardor
32. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Lodge
Candid
Predilection
Recondite
33. Pretending shyness or modesty
Ethereal
Coy
Pusillanimous
Solace
34. Become less intense/widespread
Depot
adulation
Tractable
Abate
35. Mournful/sad/dismay
Begrudge
Surreptitious
Lugubrious
Eccentric
36. Return to former state
Regression
Appease
Anomaly
Reprimand
37. Wicked/criminal
Surreptitious
Nefarious
Balmy
Lariat
38. Something opposite to another
Recondite
cynicism
Dissolute
obverse
39. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Inane
Austere
Castigate
Pejorative
40. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Enamel
Spurn
Indignation
Jibe
41. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Exorbitant
Eulogy
Slake
Exonerate
42. Sew
Embroider
Consummate
Ardent
Exacerbate
43. Make or become fixed; stuck
pariah
Seraphic
bewildering
Lodge
44. Not having life.
Vociferous
Inundate
Pertinent
inanimate
45. Post that holds up a handrail
Spindle
Ascetic
Scrutiny
Philander
46. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Abdicate
Desultory
Depot
cherubic
47. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
Hackneyed
Stoical
Derision
Scrutiny
48. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Invective
Bungler
Effervescent
Poignant
49. Member of a band
Impetuous
Scrutiny
Brigand
Prerogative
50. Having no fear
Austere
Intrepid
Consternation
Expedient