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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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1. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Surreptitious
Insurrection
Smug
Pejorative
2. Straying from the law
Errant
Impertinent
Impetuous
Impart
3. House/repair airplanes
hangar
perfidy
Dour
Cabal
4. Addition to a will
Inadvertent
Codicil
Connoisseur
Pervasive
5. Dull and uninspired
Circuitous
invidious
Pedestrian
sybaritic
6. Formally display sorrow
Elegy
Begrudge
Anachronism
Duplicitous
7. Agitate; disturb; make anxious
Begrudge
Perturb
Pejorative
Indelible
8. Lying under oath
Amulet
hackneyed
Perjury
Assiduous
9. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Scant
Profligate
Expedient
perambulate
10. Make (something bad) worse
Exacerbate
Ennui
Expedient
Philander
11. Depression of spirits
Pedagogy
Cabal
Pervasive
melancholy
12. Fashionable.
Abdicate
Ostentatious
posh
Gauntlet
13. (of a sound) - sweet and soothing
Exacerbate
Dulcet
Indolent
Appease
14. Deep respect
Coalesce
obverse
Reverence
Infringe
15. Reject with disdain
Pert
Spurn
meretricious
behemoth
16. Formal way to show praise/laudation
Snare
Anodyne
Eulogy
Repugnant
17. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
Magnanimous
antebellum
Incompetent
trite
18. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
Recalcitrant
Allay
Fluster
Munificent
19. Impatient/bad-tempered
drawl
Petulant
Continent
Pedant
20. One who suffers without complaining.
Circuitous
apocryphal
stoic
seraphic
21. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
Pernicious
quixotic
Modicum
Impetuous
22. Assign inferior rank to
Demotic
Relegate
Banal
Candid
23. Break/interlude
Pedagogy
Dulcet
Infringe
Preside
24. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
Subjective
Slake
filibuster
Modicum
25. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Exonerate
Soporific
behemoth
aridity
26. Belief of something/one is useless
Paragon
Contempt
Gluttony
Peal
27. Revelry - enjoy one self (noisily)
stoic
Carouse
Domicile
Valor
28. Denying one's self pleasure
Ascetic
cogent
Extol
Disparage
29. Warlike
Flounder
Boorish
bellicose
Recapitulate
30. Short simple song
Austere
Ditty
Spurn
Duplicitous
31. Country of one's permanent stay
Domicile
Nefarious
Unanimous
Ardent
32. Extensive/destructive fire
Conflagration
Reprieve
posh
Consternation
33. Complete happiness/ expressing
Coalesce
Giddy
Felicity
Impertinent
34. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
Gaudy
Hilt
Futility
Confab
35. Making harsh/loud noise
Clamor
Fickle
Chortle
Raucous
36. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Nefarious
Indelible
lope
Reticent
37. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
panegyric
Demure
Discordant
Exorbitant
38. An episode of irregular fighting
Abdicate
Skirmish
Balmy
Dandy
39. Praise enthusiastically
Ascetic
Extol
Exonerate
Invective
40. Officially absolve from blame
Exonerate
Allay
Bland
Snare
41. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Balmy
Ennui
Contentious
Fulminate
42. Greatly honored.
Felicity
Reticent
inanimate
revered
43. Loud and harsh
Garish
Repugnant
Recalcitrant
Strident
44. Acknowledged superiority in
Recalcitrant
Eminence
Banal
Acquiesce
45. Spread (i.e something unwelcome)
Profligate
posh
Subjective
Pervasive
46. Barely sufficient/adequate
Acquiesce
Scant
Paragon
Fickle
47. Praise and honor
Paltry
Kudos
Semantic
Hilt
48. Impossible to stop or prevent
sybaritic
Spindle
Entomology
Inexorable
49. Flood/large amount of water
Inundate
hangar
perfidy
Garish
50. Sorrowful
Inundate
Slake
Dolorous
Effervescent