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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. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Inundate
Ire
Quarry
Conducive
2. One living in solitude (religious)
Hermit
Miscreant
Infringe
Effervescent
3. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
filibuster
Blight
Acclimate
Seraphic
4. An easy bounding gate(manner of moving the foot)
laconic - spartan
lope
Coy
Admonition
5. Relate to meaning in language/logic
polemic
Semantic
Sate (satiate)
cherubic
6. Make or become fixed; stuck
Lodge
Conflagration
Pedant
Mendacity
7. Study of insects
Profusion
Atelier
Entomology
inanimate
8. Too obedient/servile.
Obsequious
meretricious
Unanimous
Ire
9. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Brigand
Remission
Ennui
Incompetent
10. Art/practice of disputation.
Disparage
Pejorative
Snare
polemic
11. Difficult to understand
Angler
Abstruse
Codicil
polemic
12. Contemptuous ridicule/mockery
Obsequious
Smug
Infirmary
Derision
13. Only seeks personal pleasure
Pernicious
Libidinous
Indolent
Hedonist
14. Slim; supple; graceful
Ingenious
Lithe
Pedant
Mendacity
15. Place for storage of large commodity
Skirmish
Gluttony
Sedate
Depot
16. Tolerant; set as true
Tirade
Pugilist
Dogmatic
Pensive
17. Junction of two rivers; merging
Pert
Paltry
Confluence
Hackneyed
18. Group of entertainers who tour
Reticent
Trowel
Futility
Troupe
19. Become less intense/widespread
Abate
Petulant
Nadir
Perturb
20. Wordy (fewer would do)
Circumlocution
Errant
Pervasive
Recondite
21. Fake substitute for a drug
Abate
Placebo
Angler
Ruse
22. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Indignation
Scrutiny
Spurn
hackneyed
23. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
adulation
Sate (satiate)
Captious
Virile
24. Overindulgent sensually; loose moral
Dissolute
Coalesce
Strident
Intrepid
25. Excessively detailed; boring
Contentious
Lunacy
Pedant
apocryphal
26. The gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.
Hedonist
Depot
Avarice
serendipity
27. Amateur; dabbler; no real skill
Docile
Dilettante
Subjective
obverse
28. Extensive/destructive fire
Exhort
Conflagration
Errant
naïvete
29. Selfish motives
cynicism
Vapid
Auspicious
serendipity
30. (woman) reserved/modest/shy
bewildering
Ire
Demure
Indelible
31. Show great care and perseverance
Indelible
Confab
Balmy
Assiduous
32. Dryness
Exorbitant
Paltry
aridity
seraphic
33. An episode of irregular fighting
Circuitous
Skirmish
Comestible
Sedate
34. Boxer
Ethereal
Unanimous
Pugilist
belladonna
35. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Inundate
Lapel
Berth
Atelier
36. Replace
Diatribe
Booty
Supplant
Peal
37. Accustom to new conditions
Rancid
Kudos
Acclimate
Ethereal
38. Speak slowly
Fulminate
Obsequious
naïvete
drawl
39. Item of food; something eaten
Preside
Comestible
Imperative
Paramour
40. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Castigate
lucidity
Cynical
Apex
41. Pretentious/showy; to impress
revered
Salient
Ostentatious
chimerical
42. Meeting between sides in a dispute
Parley
Coffer
posh
Pejorative
43. Anxiety or dismay.
Consternation
Contentious
Inane
Hermit
44. Insanity
Virile
Sterile
Lunacy
Bristle
45. Bring together to form a whole
Pensive
obverse
Coalesce
Indolent
46. Not harmful or offensive
Rapscallion
Supplant
Silo
Innocuous
47. A hospital
Allay
Blight
Infirmary
seraphic
48. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Perfidious
Prerogative
Pail
Languish
49. Jewelry giving protection from evil
inanimate
quixotic
Amulet
Candid
50. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Quarry
bellicose
Smug
Spurn