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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. Cancel punishment of
Reprieve
succinct
Recapitulate
Abhor
2. Offering nothing challenging
Vapid
Pilfer
Hilt
stoic
3. Trap for catching small animals
Demure
Impart
Snare
Mendacity
4. Expert judge in matter of taste
Expedient
Quintessence
Connoisseur
Errant
5. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
agnostic
Pier
Paregoric
invidious
6. Relevant/applicable to some matter
Recapitulate
Pertinent
Profligate
Inundate
7. Distasteful/ inconsistency in ideas
Tame
Loquacious
Repugnant
Appease
8. Regard with hatred
Auspicious
Abhor
Ardent
Reverence
9. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
invidious
Paramour
Skirmish
Ardent
10. Feelings of ill will.
Preside
posh
vitriol
Sate (satiate)
11. Unoriginal; commonplace
Sterile
Demoralize
Demeanor
Banal
12. Most noticeable; important
Balmy
Salient
masochist
Seraphic
13. Apathy or sluggishness
perambulate
phlegmatic
Demure
Eminence
14. Very enthusiastic; passionate
Anodyne
Continent
Ardent
Derision
15. Causing (likely) disagreement
evanescent
Contentious
Virile
barrenness
16. Break/interlude
agnostic
Infringe
Desultory
Mendicant
17. Not resulting from plan
Codicil
Garish
Uncanny
Inadvertent
18. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Indignation
Magnanimous
behemoth
Imbue
19. Showy (no value); prostitute.
Codicil
meretricious
hangar
apocryphal
20. One living in solitude (religious)
Allay
Hermit
Malady
Pedestrian
21. Longer than most direct way
Exonerate
Circuitous
Predilection
Scowl
22. Zenith - pinnacle - highest
Apex
Coy
Regression
Depot
23. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Tenuous
Ardor
Insurrection
Panacea
24. People travelling (horse)- pilgrim
Berth
Rebuke
Mellifluous
Cavalcade
25. Laugh in a gleeful way
masochist
agnostic
Silo
Chortle
26. Have no serious purpose/value
Frivolous
Pensive
Tirade
Imbue
27. Lack respect; impudent; insolent
Impertinent
Plethora
Coy
Discombobulate
28. Confuse
Perfidious
maudlin
seraphic
Discombobulate
29. Addition to a will
Chortle
Coy
Codicil
Boorish
30. An episode of irregular fighting
perfidy
Sterile
Subjective
Skirmish
31. A mischievous person
Innocuous
Rapscallion
Lugubrious
Embroider
32. Part of a suit
Blight
Pail
Inane
Lapel
33. End something
Trowel
Consummate
Strident
vitriol
34. Loud/confused noise
Anodyne
Clamor
Cynical
lethargy
35. Something opposite to another
Circumlocution
obverse
Paregoric
Flounder
36. Mild warning; cautionary advice
Fulminate
Semantic
Repugnant
Admonition
37. Placate by acceding their demands
Corpulent
Appease
Captious
Scion
38. Massive relentless force
Insipid
juggernaut
Scion
Ethereal
39. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Quarry
Conflagration
Derision
Perfidious
40. Stubborn to change one's mind
Obstinate
Pedestrian
Admonition
Rebuke
41. Temporary prohibition of activity
Lunacy
Expedient
Moratorium
Mellifluous
42. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Pedestrian
cavalier
Flounder
Poignant
43. To exclude from a group by common consent.
masochist
ostracism
Rapscallion
naïvete
44. Sorrowful
Insipid
Dolorous
Pertinent
Indelible
45. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
Trowel
Domicile
Rife
Insurrection
46. Outward behavior
Felicity
Demeanor
Modicum
Inexorable
47. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Flounder
foal
Errant
Prerogative
48. Sew
lethargy
Embroider
Anodyne
Garish
49. Wicked/criminal
Nefarious
Confluence
Desultory
Pedant
50. Having power; convincing
Captious
cogent
Banal
Incompetent