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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. Only seeks personal pleasure
Hedonist
Supplant
Felicity
Pedagogy
2. Person who appeals to the emotions and prejudice of people esp. in order to gain political power.
Dilettante
demagogue
Derision
Cynical
3. Found everywhere
diligence
Asinine
Languish
Ubiquitous
4. Servant
Lackey
panegyric
Ditty
Modicum
5. Not reveal thoughts/feelings easily
Reticent
Apt
perambulate
Jibe
6. Become less intense/widespread
seraphic
Promulgate
Demeanor
Abate
7. Fault-finding
Revue
Captious
Pugilist
cavalier
8. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Coffer
Petulant
Confab
Paregoric
9. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Insipid
Hackneyed
Tame
Angler
10. To flatter/admire excessively.
Anathema
masochist
cavalier
adulation
11. Promote/make widely known
Promulgate
Amalgamate
Bland
Extol
12. Fashionable.
Blight
apocryphal
posh
Derision
13. (of a person) fat
Corpulent
Consternation
Petulant
drawl
14. Greatly honored.
revered
belligerent
Brigand
Imbue
15. Extensive/destructive fire
Berth
Supplant
posh
Conflagration
16. Stale; having lost its force by repetition.
trite
Hilt
Sate (satiate)
obverse
17. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Enamel
cavalier
Ire
trite
18. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Remission
Hermit
Assiduous
Exacerbate
19. Apathy or sluggishness
Cabal
Pejorative
phlegmatic
Infringe
20. Approval; praise
Approbation
Valor
Parley
Apt
21. Large amount of something; myriad
Rancid
Profusion
Sanctuary
Stoical
22. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
Recalcitrant
Allay
Imbue
Gluttony
23. Deceptive/deceitful
Coalesce
Duplicitous
Strident
Pedestrian
24. Lying under oath
foal
Perjury
Lariat
Quintessence
25. Impossible to stop or prevent
Recalcitrant
Blight
Quintessence
Inexorable
26. Excessive in eating
Recapitulate
Reproach
Exorbitant
Gluttony
27. Show great care and perseverance
bewildering
Docile
Assiduous
Coalesce
28. Critical observation/examination
Enamel
Poignant
Scrutiny
Magnanimous
29. Untruthful
Innocuous
Tenuous
juggernaut
Mendacity
30. Appropriate - suitable
Apt
demagogue
Inane
Jibe
31. Silly (lacking sense)
Flounder
Inane
Entomology
Bland
32. Anticipating with anxiety
Apprehensive
Recondite
Impart
Magnanimous
33. Medicinal extract.
polemic
belladonna
Preside
Repugnant
34. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Boorish
Codicil
Pusillanimous
Bland
35. Dizzy
Ostentatious
Subjective
Giddy
Gaunt
36. A public expression of approval
panegyric
Predilection
Bungler
Eulogy
37. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Enamel
Captious
Chortle
Intrepid
38. Short simple song
Reprieve
Ennui
Approbation
Ditty
39. Boxer
Ingenious
sybaritic
Pugilist
Sedate
40. Permanent
Indelible
Abate
Anodyne
juggernaut
41. Easily influenced/controlled
succinct
Amenable
Apprehensive
Pedant
42. Tall tower used to store grain
Silo
Spurn
Dulcet
quixotic
43. Relieve/end fear/pain/concern
Tame
Pert
Allay
Assiduous
44. Fully in agreement
Demotic
Domicile
Unanimous
Abstruse
45. Place of refuge/safety
Placebo
Sanctuary
Domicile
Austere
46. Disease or ailment
Pedant
Spurn
Malady
quixotic
47. Lustful
Libidinous
Loquacious
vitriol
bellicose
48. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
Gauntlet
Ire
Garish
ostracism
49. Not harmful or offensive
Indolent
Circuitous
antebellum
Innocuous
50. Formally display sorrow
Dulcet
Eminence
Elegy
Dolorous