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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. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Clamor
Sterile
aridity
Paregoric
2. Mournful/sad/dismay
Hone
Lugubrious
Castigate
Eulogy
3. In widespread practice - use - existence
Angler
Rife
Recalcitrant
Frivolous
4. Officially absolve from blame
Smug
Spindle
Snare
Exonerate
5. Weakly/effusively sentimental.
agnostic
maudlin
Gaudy
Approbation
6. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
apocryphal
Flounder
Blight
Libidinous
7. Slim; supple; graceful
Confab
Lithe
Coy
Eulogy
8. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Blight
Imbue
Skirmish
Brackish
9. Not canonical (accepted principle esp in church).
apocryphal
Preside
Modicum
Hoard
10. Abusive/highly critical language
Atelier
Malady
Invective
Rescind
11. Only seeks personal pleasure
Errant
Hedonist
Ascetic
Exonerate
12. Excessively detailed; boring
juggernaut
Denude
Pervasive
Pedant
13. Comfort; consolation times of distress
Flounder
Solace
Inadvertent
Imbue
14. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Scrutiny
Circuitous
Spurn
Enamel
15. Placate by acceding their demands
Discreet
Anomaly
Appease
Incompetent
16. Fault-finding
Pusillanimous
Lapel
Stoical
Captious
17. Obstinately uncooperative
evanescent
Recalcitrant
Austere
Confab
18. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
Anomaly
inanimate
lope
Paltry
19. Accustom to new conditions
Pervasive
Acclimate
Blight
masochist
20. Most noticeable; important
Pejorative
Salient
Pugilist
melancholy
21. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Balmy
Paregoric
cavalier
Chortle
22. Silly (lacking sense)
Obsequious
Effervescent
Hilt
Inane
23. Make (something bad) worse
Silo
Allay
Exacerbate
serendipity
24. Hard to control/deal with
Intractable
Pail
Fickle
Approbation
25. Before the war
antebellum
Brigand
Supplant
Giddy
26. Not having life.
Insipid
Languish
inanimate
Demotic
27. Irritated - angry.
Continent
Tame
choleric
Expedient
28. Exhibiting aggression.
belligerent
Allay
Eulogy
Captious
29. Return to former state
Apt
Paragon
Docile
Regression
30. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Apt
Subjective
Prerogative
Bungler
31. Relate to meaning in language/logic
Chicanery
succinct
Imperative
Semantic
32. Sew
Embroider
Ardor
Revue
Profligate
33. Difficult to understand
Abstruse
vitriol
cavalier
demagogue
34. Truthful and straightforward; frank
Candid
Amenable
bellicose
Rapscallion
35. End something
Dilettante
barrenness
Recalcitrant
Consummate
36. Causing (likely) disagreement
Contentious
Perfidious
Spurn
Skirmish
37. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Disparage
Slake
Jibe
Pernicious
38. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
foal
Extirpate
Allay
Imbue
39. Act angrily or defensively
Amenable
Rescind
Derision
Bristle
40. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Gaudy
Sate (satiate)
Expedient
Exorbitant
41. Complete happiness/ expressing
Modicum
Felicity
Approbation
Repugnant
42. Longer than most direct way
Hilt
Imperative
Lackey
Circuitous
43. Strip of covering; make bare
Apt
Allay
Denude
Booty
44. Act/done quickly/rashly; hothead
barrenness
Impetuous
Continent
Confluence
45. Overly theatrical
Avarice
Supplant
Insipid
Histrionic
46. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Assiduous
Castigate
Elegy
Lithe
47. Deviate from standard/normal
Duplicitous
Anomaly
Bristle
Effervescent
48. Most perfect/typical example
Atelier
Quintessence
Bristle
Rescind
49. Resign/give up
Abdicate
Append
Virile
stoic
50. Secret political faction in collusion
Denude
Cabal
Pert
Circuitous