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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. Obstinately uncooperative
Recalcitrant
Impart
Approbation
Extol
2. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Profusion
Allay
Boorish
behemoth
3. One living in solitude (religious)
Tirade
Hermit
maudlin
lethargy
4. Place for storage of large commodity
laconic - spartan
Depot
posh
naïvete
5. Disease or ailment
Banal
Obstinate
perambulate
Malady
6. Dull and uninspired
Insurrection
Pedestrian
Lackey
Rebuke
7. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Ethereal
behemoth
Audacious
Embroider
8. Apathy or sluggishness
hackneyed
choleric
Mellifluous
phlegmatic
9. Found everywhere
Placebo
Ubiquitous
Codicil
Preside
10. Bucket
Pail
Carouse
Discordant
Trowel
11. Junction of two rivers; merging
Confluence
Append
Blight
Quarry
12. Confuse
Downpour
foal
Discombobulate
evanescent
13. Loud and harsh
Strident
Demotic
Blight
Audacious
14. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
Enamel
Skirmish
chastened
Allay
15. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Vociferous
Regression
Anodyne
Docile
16. In widespread practice - use - existence
Rife
Abhor
maudlin
Vociferous
17. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Inexorable
Fluster
Amulet
Placebo
18. Longer than most direct way
Circuitous
Extol
Gluttony
Cynical
19. (of a person) fat
Coalesce
Corpulent
Impetuous
Anathema
20. Large amount of something; myriad
Uncanny
Innocuous
apocryphal
Profusion
21. Strip of covering; make bare
Demeanor
Spurn
Denude
cherubic
22. Tall tower used to store grain
Denude
Placebo
Memorandum
Silo
23. Give up or become compliant
diligence
Predilection
Vociferous
Tractable
24. Lover (against marriage)
Pedant
Denude
Paramour
Garish
25. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Paragon
Amalgamate
Ire
Plethora
26. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
Chicanery
Hilt
Ubiquitous
Rife
27. Temporary prohibition of activity
naïvete
Moratorium
Berth
Tirade
28. Generous/munificent/forgive
adulation
Magnanimous
Chicanery
Pusillanimous
29. Easily influenced/controlled
Dolorous
Amenable
Ethereal
Cavalcade
30. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Allay
Munificent
Audacious
Imbue
31. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Pert
Impertinent
masochist
Panacea
32. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Allay
Inane
panegyric
Scowl
33. Capricious; changing mind frequently
Elegy
Fickle
demagogue
laconic - spartan
34. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
serendipity
Exhort
Paramour
Supplant
35. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Perfunctory
revered
Nefarious
Indolent
36. Insanity
Circuitous
Prerogative
Lunacy
Duplicitous
37. Boxer
trite
Pugilist
Eccentric
Lapel
38. Steal (things of little value)
sybaritic
Infirmary
Pilfer
Abdicate
39. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Subjective
Perfunctory
Reprieve
Enamel
40. Impatient/bad-tempered
Petulant
Dissolute
Avarice
Anachronism
41. An episode of irregular fighting
Skirmish
Intrepid
chastened
Magnanimous
42. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Candid
Spurn
Inundate
Spindle
43. Dullness of body/spirit; abnormal drowsy
Circuitous
Ascetic
Promulgate
lethargy
44. Warlike
Approbation
Predilection
bellicose
Mellifluous
45. Too obedient/servile.
lethargy
Enamel
Obsequious
Scion
46. Beggar
seraphic
Mendicant
perfidy
chimerical
47. Complete happiness/ expressing
Nadir
juggernaut
Relegate
Felicity
48. Straying from the law
diligence
Lariat
Inexorable
Errant
49. Have no serious purpose/value
Perjury
Frivolous
Tirade
Hilt
50. Strange or mysterious
Sanctuary
Innocuous
Uncanny
Pert