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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. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Ruse
Chortle
Plethora
Dour
2. Descendant (notable - long family)
Cavalcade
Scion
Blight
Captious
3. A studio (where sculpture works)
Abstruse
Brackish
Prerogative
Atelier
4. Extreme form of sharpening
Perjury
quixotic
Hone
Pedant
5. Warlike
pariah
bellicose
Intrepid
Eminence
6. Shun or avoid
Perjury
meretricious
Eschew
Scowl
7. Fully in agreement
Sterile
Pensive
Unanimous
Prerogative
8. (woman) reserved/modest/shy
Inexorable
Coalesce
Demure
Effervescent
9. Bring relief; unlikely to offend
Conflagration
Pier
Fluster
Anodyne
10. Travel over esp. on foot
chimerical
perambulate
Conflagration
polemic
11. Lacking in freshness or originality.
Angler
hackneyed
Demoralize
Rapscallion
12. Communicate; give to something
Dour
filibuster
Supplant
Impart
13. Sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation.
Acquiesce
Approbation
masochist
Spindle
14. Junction of two rivers; merging
Garish
Confluence
Hedonist
Elegy
15. Base - lowest
Fickle
Fluster
Inane
Nadir
16. Trickery or fraud
Paragon
Chicanery
Revue
Allay
17. Before the war
cavalier
Cynical
antebellum
Acclimate
18. Favorable
Mellifluous
Virile
Approbation
Auspicious
19. An episode of irregular fighting
Scowl
Eschew
Skirmish
succinct
20. Contributing/helping towards
Ubiquitous
Dogmatic
Conducive
Hermit
21. Lacking flavor
Inundate
Loquacious
Insipid
Ardor
22. Obstinately uncooperative
Fickle
Recalcitrant
Eminence
Comestible
23. Temporary prohibition of activity
Sate (satiate)
Moratorium
Banal
Balmy
24. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Apt
Dandy
Demoralize
Amulet
25. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
Desultory
Lackey
Dolorous
26. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Nefarious
polemic
Pernicious
Boorish
27. End something
Recapitulate
agnostic
Consummate
Balmy
28. Greatly honored.
Discombobulate
apocryphal
revered
Abstruse
29. Gather things together
Gaudy
Amalgamate
Reticent
Silo
30. Cheerful - hopeful.
Exhort
Infirmary
sanguine
Eminence
31. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Remission
Pertinent
Disparage
Munificent
32. Too obedient/servile.
Quintessence
Eminence
Pernicious
Obsequious
33. Inept; insufficient to perform a task
Bungler
Extirpate
Apt
Innocuous
34. Angry/bad-tempered expression
Disparage
Euphoric
Scowl
Infirmary
35. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Titillate
Obsequious
Duplicitous
Subjective
36. Happen by chance
Fortuitous
Modicum
Consternation
Castigate
37. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Banal
Regression
Fulminate
lucidity
38. Small amount of something; iota
Spurn
Paucity
melancholy
Carouse
39. Most noticeable; important
Salient
Captious
Imperative
Auspicious
40. Study of insects
Vociferous
Memorandum
Entomology
Banal
41. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Perturb
Pensive
Hermit
Rebuke
42. Longer than most direct way
agnostic
Hone
Circuitous
Discombobulate
43. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Surreptitious
Appease
Magnanimous
Append
44. Evoke keen sense of sadness/regret
Poignant
Ditty
Cabal
Paragon
45. Reject with disdain
Spurn
Repugnant
Silo
Paramour
46. Lack respect; impudent; insolent
Paragon
Impertinent
Pervasive
Ethereal
47. Mythical beast; unreal.
Ditty
Effervescent
Mendacity
chimerical
48. Found everywhere
Admonition
Ubiquitous
perambulate
Perjury
49. Rope used as a lasso
Lariat
Castigate
Paramour
bellicose
50. Long speech of angry criticism
stoic
Gaunt
lope
Tirade