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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. Give up or become compliant
Tractable
Inadvertent
Banal
Booty
2. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Chortle
Flounder
antebellum
Impart
3. Feelings of ill will.
Circuitous
vitriol
Uncanny
Eccentric
4. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
Effervescent
Rancid
Blight
Gaunt
5. Reject with disdain
Spurn
Prerogative
Abstruse
agnostic
6. Entertainment of sketches/song/dance
Revue
Profusion
Pernicious
Perturb
7. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Subjective
Mulish
Valor
Panacea
8. Lack harmony; conflicting
chimerical
Infringe
Discordant
Memorandum
9. Strongly encourage or urge to do
Exhort
Ennui
Querulous
serendipity
10. Fault-finding
Perfunctory
Lodge
Captious
Reproach
11. Expressing disapproval
Append
Abstruse
Pejorative
Imperative
12. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
Dogmatic
Banal
Reprieve
Lax
13. Approval; praise
Paltry
Approbation
Fortuitous
Ostentatious
14. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Vociferous
Recalcitrant
Carouse
Desultory
15. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Subjective
Coalesce
seraphic
Perfidious
16. Contributing/helping towards
maudlin
Conducive
Valor
choleric
17. Praise enthusiastically
Expedient
Hoard
belligerent
Extol
18. Not sufficiently skillful
behemoth
Incompetent
Inundate
Coalesce
19. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Elegy
Impetuous
Sanctuary
agnostic
20. Junction of two rivers; merging
Confluence
Dandy
Discordant
serendipity
21. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Pensive
Ubiquitous
Derision
Errant
22. Show great care and perseverance
Valor
Assiduous
Extol
phlegmatic
23. Disease or ailment
Philander
Clamor
Castigate
Malady
24. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Profligate
Preside
Amulet
Captious
25. Extremely foolish or stupid
Circumlocution
serendipity
Amenable
Asinine
26. Not harmful or offensive
Dogmatic
Innocuous
Comestible
Memorandum
27. Before the war
antebellum
Recondite
Panacea
Castigate
28. Place of refuge/safety
Domicile
succinct
Pugilist
Sanctuary
29. Destroy completely
Extirpate
Consternation
Admonition
Audacious
30. Lose composure; make agitated
Append
Fluster
Relegate
Pedant
31. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
Valor
Impetuous
seraphic
Gaunt
32. Talkative
Conflagration
Loquacious
Apt
Lodge
33. A studio (where sculpture works)
Atelier
Desultory
Spurn
Bristle
34. Lacking in freshness or originality.
hackneyed
Intrepid
Pervasive
Fickle
35. Very enthusiastic; passionate
naïvete
Ardent
Consummate
Cavalcade
36. Barely sufficient/adequate
Malady
Valor
Scant
Lackey
37. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
revered
Exonerate
Trowel
Lugubrious
38. Deceptive/deceitful
Duplicitous
diligence
Impart
cogent
39. Spread (i.e something unwelcome)
Scowl
Pervasive
Abhor
Dandy
40. Written message (diplomacy)
cynicism
Chortle
Perturb
Memorandum
41. Recklessly daring
Asinine
Rife
Comestible
Audacious
42. Tall tower used to store grain
Pernicious
Histrionic
Silo
Repugnant
43. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Apprehensive
Hoard
Slake
lope
44. Criticize sharply
sybaritic
Unanimous
Dulcet
Rebuke
45. Beggar
Mendicant
Sedate
Exacerbate
Extol
46. Accustom to new conditions
Querulous
Titillate
Acclimate
Impart
47. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
Euphoric
Reticent
Nadir
invidious
48. Only motivated by self-interest
Memorandum
Cynical
Munificent
Lithe
49. Having power; convincing
Philander
quixotic
Chortle
cogent
50. Something opposite to another
demagogue
Derision
obverse
behemoth