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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. Tolerant; set as true
Modicum
Confab
Dogmatic
adulation
2. Extensive/destructive fire
Eccentric
Conflagration
Diatribe
Nadir
3. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Blight
Extirpate
Pedestrian
Subjective
4. Short simple song
Ditty
Ardent
Paragon
Demeanor
5. Item of food; something eaten
Scant
Cynical
Comestible
invidious
6. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Ire
Consternation
evanescent
Scowl
7. Silly (lacking sense)
Embroider
Inane
Slake
Exonerate
8. Critical observation/examination
Contentious
Scrutiny
Inexorable
Circumlocution
9. Not harmful or offensive
Spurn
Pervasive
Demeanor
Innocuous
10. Dryness
Begrudge
Continent
aridity
Lodge
11. Evoke keen sense of sadness/regret
perfidy
Impetuous
Poignant
Gauntlet
12. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
Booty
Conflagration
Moratorium
13. Not resulting from plan
Virile
Anathema
Inadvertent
Sate (satiate)
14. Bulky glove
behemoth
Petulant
Gauntlet
Apex
15. Approval; praise
Approbation
Cynical
Denude
Pugilist
16. Used by ordinary people; secular
Demotic
Rancid
trite
Cavalcade
17. Envy the possession/enjoyment of
Asinine
Smug
Bland
Begrudge
18. Have trouble doing; stagger in mud
Remission
Inane
Flounder
cherubic
19. Extreme greed for wealth
melancholy
quixotic
Avarice
Disparage
20. House/repair airplanes
Promulgate
hangar
invidious
Imbue
21. Happen by chance
Anachronism
Abstruse
Fortuitous
Paragon
22. Fitting/practical (improper?)
Mulish
Expedient
Circuitous
Entomology
23. Warlike
bellicose
Gaudy
Abdicate
Gaunt
24. Inept; insufficient to perform a task
Consternation
Chortle
Bungler
Inane
25. Express disapproval; reprove
Fickle
Gaudy
Reprimand
Codicil
26. Not having life.
Ardent
Raucous
inanimate
Exorbitant
27. Irritated - angry.
Perturb
Sanctuary
choleric
Moratorium
28. Generous/munificent/forgive
Magnanimous
Pensive
Allay
Gluttony
29. Impossible to stop or prevent
Confluence
Ubiquitous
Lackey
Inexorable
30. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Raucous
succinct
Carouse
Remission
31. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
Fickle
Allay
Modicum
Blight
32. Unproductive of results
Ingenious
Revue
barrenness
Candid
33. Lacking flavor
Elegy
Paragon
chastened
Insipid
34. (of a person) fat
Jibe
filibuster
Perturb
Corpulent
35. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
seraphic
Mendicant
Ardor
Gaunt
36. Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals.
Pail
Insipid
quixotic
sybaritic
37. Replace
Reverence
bellicose
Profligate
Supplant
38. Submissive
Captious
Docile
invidious
Asinine
39. Worn-out/ordinary; lackluster
Hackneyed
Solace
Angler
Loquacious
40. Bring together to form a whole
sybaritic
Eccentric
Coalesce
Eulogy
41. Excessively detailed; boring
Dour
Pedant
Quarry
Perfidious
42. Deadly
demagogue
Pernicious
Contempt
Circuitous
43. Annoyance by unfair treatment
revered
Admonition
Anathema
Indignation
44. To correct through punishment/suffering; discipline; purify.
Impart
chastened
Prerogative
Regression
45. Exhibiting aggression.
apocryphal
belligerent
Indolent
Predilection
46. Favorable
Soporific
Auspicious
polemic
Angler
47. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Ennui
Paregoric
Plethora
Spurn
48. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Consternation
Pedant
Munificent
Balmy
49. Art/practice of disputation.
Circuitous
Chicanery
Enamel
polemic
50. Slim; supple; graceful
Ire
Remission
Hackneyed
Lithe