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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. Man entering frequent sex relation
Impart
Philander
Perjury
Mendicant
2. Become less intense/widespread
Salient
Discombobulate
Abate
Rife
3. Very small/meager
Rife
Imbue
Munificent
Paltry
4. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Acquiesce
Chicanery
Dogmatic
Impetuous
5. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Berth
Obsequious
Insipid
Derision
6. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
Confluence
Effervescent
serendipity
Amalgamate
7. Strict in manner; extremely simple
Dolorous
Append
Extol
Austere
8. Relevant/applicable to some matter
antebellum
Pertinent
Pier
Austere
9. Excessively detailed; boring
Troupe
Pedant
Quintessence
Mendicant
10. Anticipating with anxiety
Apprehensive
Scowl
Austere
Contempt
11. Mild warning; cautionary advice
Admonition
Surreptitious
Discombobulate
obverse
12. Tolerant; set as true
Regression
Placebo
Atelier
Dogmatic
13. Happen by chance
Acquiesce
Lunacy
Fortuitous
quixotic
14. Grow weak/feeble
Languish
Imperative
Abstruse
Fluster
15. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Blight
Circuitous
Invective
Coalesce
16. End something
Malady
Atelier
Consummate
Scrutiny
17. Used by ordinary people; secular
Slake
Demotic
Derision
Salient
18. Outward behavior
Titillate
Cavalcade
Demeanor
Admonition
19. Something opposite to another
Lithe
Hone
Hackneyed
obverse
20. In widespread practice - use - existence
Pedestrian
Impertinent
Codicil
Rife
21. Deadly
Domicile
melancholy
Nefarious
Pernicious
22. Confuse
Fulminate
Apex
Discombobulate
laconic - spartan
23. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Pedant
Paltry
demagogue
Extirpate
24. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
lope
Frivolous
maudlin
revered
25. Envy the possession/enjoyment of
Begrudge
Valor
Connoisseur
Impertinent
26. Self-resistant (sexually)
Profusion
naïvete
Continent
chastened
27. Short simple song
juggernaut
Ditty
Pedagogy
Quintessence
28. Angel (light and purity)
Profligate
Insurrection
Seraphic
Ardent
29. Relate to meaning in language/logic
Seraphic
Chortle
Profusion
Semantic
30. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
Intrepid
Fickle
barrenness
chastened
31. Clever/original/inventive
Relegate
Bristle
Ingenious
Chicanery
32. Study of insects
Remission
Tractable
Entomology
Obsequious
33. Young horse
Codicil
Carouse
Valor
foal
34. Communicate; give to something
Extirpate
Impart
Reticent
pariah
35. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Spurn
Exonerate
Balmy
Infirmary
36. Addition to a will
Codicil
stoic
Infringe
Reprimand
37. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
quixotic
Preside
Munificent
Predilection
38. Warlike
Pert
bellicose
Paltry
Revue
39. Trick
Valor
Abstruse
Ruse
Coy
40. Tall tower used to store grain
Berth
Eulogy
Silo
Innocuous
41. Secret political faction in collusion
Solace
diligence
Perfidious
Cabal
42. Model; exemplar
Paragon
Anachronism
Insipid
Trowel
43. Hard to control/deal with
Intractable
Supplant
Seraphic
Vapid
44. Small quantity
Dilettante
Memorandum
Bland
Modicum
45. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
Tenuous
Insipid
Pedestrian
Fracas
46. Loud/confused noise
Lariat
Pedant
revered
Clamor
47. Anxiety or dismay.
Reverence
panegyric
Reprimand
Consternation
48. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Pugilist
Salient
Tractable
trite
49. Large amount of something; myriad
Profusion
Circuitous
quixotic
Lax
50. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Enamel
Perturb
Gauntlet
Anathema