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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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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. Model; exemplar
Spindle
Regression
Paragon
Sanctuary
2. Medicinal extract.
bellicose
Pedagogy
cherubic
belladonna
3. Most noticeable; important
Salient
Rebuke
Reprimand
Pilfer
4. Entertainment of sketches/song/dance
bewildering
Revue
Surreptitious
Intractable
5. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Eulogy
Dour
Vapid
perambulate
6. Lack respect; impudent; insolent
Reproach
lucidity
Ardent
Impertinent
7. Store of money or valuable objects
Hoard
Tenuous
Circuitous
Enamel
8. Lacking flavor
Profligate
Ethereal
Recondite
Insipid
9. Express disapproval in action
Silo
Reproach
Recondite
Flounder
10. Mythical beast; unreal.
Inundate
Scowl
serendipity
chimerical
11. Greatly honored.
Nefarious
Comestible
belligerent
revered
12. Not harmful or offensive
Innocuous
sybaritic
Unanimous
Lodge
13. Fault-finding
Pedant
Domicile
Captious
Nefarious
14. Grow weak/feeble
Amulet
adulation
Languish
Miscreant
15. Comfort; consolation times of distress
polemic
Predilection
Sanctuary
Solace
16. Mild warning; cautionary advice
sybaritic
Uncanny
Denude
Admonition
17. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
Derision
hackneyed
Consternation
Sanctuary
18. Complaining in whining manner
Obsequious
Connoisseur
Querulous
Inane
19. Dullness of body/spirit; abnormal drowsy
lethargy
cavalier
Domicile
trite
20. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Libidinous
Discombobulate
Soporific
Dour
21. Addition to a will
Approbation
Avarice
Codicil
Querulous
22. Wordy (fewer would do)
Circumlocution
Appease
Apprehensive
Anodyne
23. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Semantic
Flounder
perfidy
Amulet
24. Endure pain without showing feeling
Stoical
Lax
behemoth
Titillate
25. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Effervescent
Downpour
Miscreant
Ethereal
26. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Recalcitrant
Surreptitious
Errant
Perfunctory
27. (of a sound) - sweet and soothing
Euphoric
Perturb
Smug
Dulcet
28. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Profligate
adulation
Spurn
Sanctuary
29. Extreme greed for wealth
Brackish
Revue
Fulminate
Avarice
30. Revelry - enjoy one self (noisily)
Profusion
Reproach
Carouse
Effervescent
31. Irritated - angry.
Lugubrious
cynicism
Memorandum
choleric
32. Destroy completely
diligence
Extirpate
Append
cynicism
33. Extreme happiness/elated
Miscreant
Intrepid
Rebuke
Euphoric
34. Cancel punishment of
Surreptitious
Gauntlet
Reprieve
demagogue
35. Shun or avoid
Cynical
Inundate
Reticent
Eschew
36. Trick
Ruse
Pernicious
Subjective
Exhort
37. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Auspicious
Amalgamate
Blight
agnostic
38. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Remission
Insurrection
Quant
Assiduous
39. Something opposite to another
Magnanimous
obverse
Pier
lope
40. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
posh
Comestible
Panacea
Invective
41. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
Pedestrian
Downpour
Errant
42. (of a person) fat
Pail
Corpulent
Slake
Jibe
43. Only seeks personal pleasure
Entomology
Rescind
Hedonist
Rife
44. Lose composure; make agitated
Fluster
Inexorable
Dilettante
Lariat
45. A mischievous person
Rapscallion
Incompetent
Effervescent
Paregoric
46. Add to end of a document
Solace
Append
Futility
Ardent
47. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Perturb
diligence
Hilt
Garish
48. Post that holds up a handrail
Ethereal
Spindle
Dandy
Ardent
49. Impatient/bad-tempered
Relegate
Uncanny
posh
Petulant
50. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
bewildering
Euphoric
Trowel
Booty