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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. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
Flounder
Discreet
melancholy
2. Give up or become compliant
Allay
Dogmatic
Surreptitious
Tractable
3. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Predilection
Virile
Conducive
inanimate
4. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Inadvertent
Intractable
Allay
cavalier
5. Carried out with minimal effort
Snare
Preside
Asinine
Perfunctory
6. Be in the position of authority
Pejorative
Preside
Effervescent
Abate
7. One who suffers without complaining.
Lackey
Panacea
Corpulent
stoic
8. Anxiety or dismay.
Profusion
Consternation
Mellifluous
Pensive
9. Lover (against marriage)
Vapid
Spurn
Recalcitrant
Paramour
10. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Pensive
Supplant
Booty
Perturb
11. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Modicum
Mellifluous
cogent
hackneyed
12. Based on personal feeling/opinion
meretricious
Seraphic
Sate (satiate)
Subjective
13. Return to former state
Reproach
Regression
Demure
Enamel
14. Not resulting from plan
Inadvertent
Unanimous
Placebo
obverse
15. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Blight
Inundate
Nefarious
Enamel
16. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Quant
Blight
Entomology
Bland
17. Cancel or take back
Comestible
evanescent
Rescind
Asinine
18. Excess (i.e. bodily fluid. ex. blood)
Raucous
Plethora
Frivolous
vitriol
19. Wanting to avoid activity; lazy
Amenable
Indolent
Inundate
Boorish
20. Too obedient/servile.
Recalcitrant
Lunacy
Obsequious
Extirpate
21. Making harsh/loud noise
Raucous
Perturb
Appease
Inadvertent
22. Make or become fixed; stuck
Anachronism
Lodge
Confab
Hackneyed
23. Express disapproval; reprove
Continent
Reprimand
Indelible
Abate
24. (of a sound) - sweet and soothing
evanescent
Cabal
Magnanimous
Dulcet
25. Medicinal extract.
Subjective
Mendicant
Conflagration
belladonna
26. Apathy or sluggishness
Unanimous
phlegmatic
Spindle
Enamel
27. Accustom to new conditions
Acclimate
Desultory
Reproach
Innocuous
28. Act angrily or defensively
Bristle
Confab
Atelier
sanguine
29. Violent uprising against authority
Mendacity
Inundate
Insurrection
Quintessence
30. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
Dolorous
quixotic
Exonerate
Reproach
31. Before the war
Derision
Comestible
Euphoric
antebellum
32. Worn-out/ordinary; lackluster
Gluttony
Rescind
Exonerate
Hackneyed
33. Insanity
Solace
Lunacy
Gaunt
Euphoric
34. Express vehement protest
Fulminate
Nefarious
Codicil
Discordant
35. Relevant/applicable to some matter
Pertinent
Pejorative
inanimate
Silo
36. Man concern with stylish looks
Anachronism
Pilfer
Dandy
Lariat
37. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Seraphic
agnostic
Prerogative
chastened
38. Angel (light and purity)
Obstinate
Pedant
Seraphic
Memorandum
39. Store of money or valuable objects
Hoard
Hermit
Expedient
Dulcet
40. Difficult to understand
Demeanor
Abstruse
Ubiquitous
Inadvertent
41. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Candid
seraphic
Fortuitous
demagogue
42. Not canonical (accepted principle esp in church).
apocryphal
perambulate
Pedant
Futility
43. Add to end of a document
Apex
phlegmatic
Castigate
Append
44. Fully in agreement
Unanimous
Extirpate
Coalesce
Perturb
45. Only seeks personal pleasure
Unanimous
Sterile
Plethora
Hedonist
46. Large amount of something; myriad
Intractable
Profusion
Cynical
Infirmary
47. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Pedant
trite
sybaritic
chimerical
48. Longer than most direct way
naïvete
Circuitous
Fulminate
Lapel
49. Strange or mysterious
Sterile
Begrudge
lope
Uncanny
50. Addition to a will
Contentious
hangar
Codicil
Vociferous