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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. Extensive/destructive fire
Circuitous
Pilfer
Conflagration
Approbation
2. Profession/science of teaching
Pedagogy
Demeanor
quixotic
Appease
3. Clever/original/inventive
Remission
Ingenious
Rancid
Petulant
4. Handle of sword/dagger/or knife
sanguine
Hilt
Rescind
Infirmary
5. An episode of irregular fighting
Skirmish
Surreptitious
Perfunctory
Exonerate
6. 'fake' solution for all difficulties
Panacea
Trowel
Mulish
Auspicious
7. Lacking in freshness or originality.
Angler
cavalier
Hedonist
hackneyed
8. Strange or mysterious
Amulet
Scrutiny
Demeanor
Uncanny
9. Sew
Admonition
Embroider
Avarice
Surreptitious
10. Unearthly; too light; diaphanous
Desultory
Begrudge
Banal
Ethereal
11. Of or relating to the belief that the existence of any ultimate reality (ie God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
agnostic
Hone
Obsequious
Domicile
12. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Elegy
Castigate
Gaunt
Cynical
13. Uselessness; pointless
behemoth
Futility
invidious
Anathema
14. Generous/munificent/forgive
Discombobulate
behemoth
Regression
Magnanimous
15. Add to end of a document
Append
Snare
Modicum
Pusillanimous
16. Self-resistant (sexually)
Eulogy
Perjury
Continent
Hilt
17. Comptemplate in deep thoughts
Predilection
Pensive
Miscreant
choleric
18. Laugh in a gleeful way
Chortle
Pert
Enamel
Lithe
19. Irritated - angry.
Elegy
Hilt
Mellifluous
choleric
20. Sorrowful
Munificent
bellicose
Dolorous
Inundate
21. Base - lowest
foal
Histrionic
Nadir
Paramour
22. Tending to vanish like vapor.
Pernicious
evanescent
Continent
Embroider
23. Not having life.
Gaunt
Pensive
inanimate
Eschew
24. Sharp pointed tool to apply mortar
Trowel
Demotic
Soporific
Troupe
25. Meeting between sides in a dispute
lucidity
Salient
Parley
Profligate
26. Causing (likely) disagreement
Tenuous
Corpulent
Contentious
Invective
27. Wordy (fewer would do)
Circumlocution
Flounder
Appease
Fortuitous
28. Return to former state
Regression
lethargy
Titillate
Pedant
29. Man entering frequent sex relation
Philander
Inexorable
Reproach
Preside
30. Assign inferior rank to
Apt
bewildering
Blight
Relegate
31. Warlike
foal
Modicum
Imbue
bellicose
32. Resign/give up
Chicanery
chimerical
Abdicate
Peal
33. Grow weak/feeble
Languish
Carouse
Eschew
Demeanor
34. Recklessly extravagant; wasteful
Connoisseur
Profligate
Disparage
Stoical
35. Appropriate - suitable
Lackey
Discombobulate
Apt
Derision
36. Not resulting from plan
Lithe
Inadvertent
Remission
Audacious
37. Short simple song
lope
stoic
Ditty
bellicose
38. Schemer/fisherman
Inundate
hackneyed
Consternation
Angler
39. Slim; supple; graceful
Lithe
Chortle
Valor
Inexorable
40. Member of a band
diligence
Brigand
Bristle
cavalier
41. Express disapproval; reprove
Unanimous
Bristle
Cabal
Reprimand
42. Distasteful/ inconsistency in ideas
Paragon
Acquiesce
Repugnant
Infringe
43. Informal private conversation
Panacea
Confab
Enamel
Spurn
44. Complaining in whining manner
Memorandum
Lodge
Querulous
Paramour
45. Belief of something/one is useless
masochist
Contempt
Supplant
Nefarious
46. Longer than most direct way
antebellum
Anodyne
Circuitous
Memorandum
47. Officially absolve from blame
Paragon
Paregoric
Profusion
Exonerate
48. Flood/overwhelm (to be dealt with)
Blight
Inundate
Paucity
Stoical
49. Inept; insufficient to perform a task
Placebo
Allay
Apex
Bungler
50. Excite (i.e. sexual images - words)
Petulant
Discordant
Relegate
Titillate