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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. Have no serious purpose/value
cavalier
maudlin
Titillate
Frivolous
2. Show great care and perseverance
Pilfer
Assiduous
Ditty
Scowl
3. Attractively unusual or old-fashioned
Pervasive
Coalesce
Pail
Quant
4. Deadly
Pernicious
Demeanor
vitriol
Anodyne
5. Praise and honor
Ire
Kudos
Lax
laconic - spartan
6. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Diatribe
Desultory
Gluttony
Booty
7. Fitting/practical (improper?)
Expedient
Brackish
Derision
Impetuous
8. Loud ringing of bells
Hoard
Malady
Profligate
Peal
9. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Infringe
Hone
lucidity
Hilt
10. Very generous
Enamel
Munificent
Comestible
Dolorous
11. An angel of the 2nd highest rank.
Querulous
cherubic
ostracism
Obsequious
12. Plant disease (caused by fungi - etc)
Angler
Inundate
Blight
Recondite
13. Steal (things of little value)
Pedant
Pilfer
Scowl
Libidinous
14. Self-satisfied irritably. Smirk: smile
Lax
Eccentric
Smug
Pert
15. Very weak; timid (lack courage)
Histrionic
Tenuous
Tame
Ardent
16. Mollify; appease; mitigate; alleviate
Eminence
choleric
chastened
Allay
17. Perplex - confusing
vitriol
bewildering
Salient
Append
18. Very severe - stern - gloomy
Rancid
choleric
Continent
Dour
19. Act angrily or defensively
perfidy
Bristle
Garish
Vociferous
20. Unwell/haggard - esp. due illness - age
Gaunt
Ruse
Loquacious
Circuitous
21. Overindulgent sensually; loose moral
Inadvertent
Dissolute
Recapitulate
Diatribe
22. Recklessly daring
filibuster
Audacious
Trowel
Bungler
23. Bulky glove
Allay
Gauntlet
agnostic
Inundate
24. Giving off bubbles; fizzy
Garish
Effervescent
bellicose
Moratorium
25. (of a person) fat
Exhort
stoic
Prerogative
Corpulent
26. Irritated - angry.
Blight
apocryphal
Paragon
choleric
27. Not exciting - adventurous - bold
Pernicious
Impart
Tame
Valor
28. A mischievous person
Dour
Paucity
sybaritic
Rapscallion
29. Saying much in few words; brief.
Hone
Bland
laconic - spartan
Eulogy
30. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Lunacy
Extol
Scant
Boorish
31. Hard to control/deal with
Allay
laconic - spartan
Intractable
Pusillanimous
32. Mournful/sad/dismay
Lugubrious
Regression
Circumlocution
Recalcitrant
33. Impatient/bad-tempered
Demoralize
Reverence
Petulant
Ostentatious
34. Worn-out/ordinary; lackluster
Apt
Hackneyed
Regression
Dour
35. Tall tower used to store grain
Mulish
Silo
hangar
Remission
36. Trick
Eschew
Cynical
Ruse
Uncanny
37. Found everywhere
Lackey
Ubiquitous
Troupe
serendipity
38. Formally display sorrow
Rescind
Promulgate
Elegy
Lackey
39. Spread (i.e something unwelcome)
behemoth
Pervasive
Perfunctory
Obsequious
40. Tending to cause discontent - animosity - or envy.
Paucity
adulation
invidious
Reproach
41. Study of insects
Entomology
Mendicant
Modicum
Dogmatic
42. Lack courage dastard (coward)
Avarice
Exacerbate
pariah
Pusillanimous
43. Jewelry giving protection from evil
Amulet
Lodge
Flounder
Mellifluous
44. Place for storage of large commodity
obverse
Raucous
Ingenious
Depot
45. Dissatisfaction from boredom
Regression
Demeanor
Acquiesce
Ennui
46. Harsh reprimand/warn; disapproval
Slake
Indolent
Castigate
lope
47. Steady earnest effort
Fracas
Malady
Recalcitrant
diligence
48. Dizzy
Jibe
Profusion
Preside
Giddy
49. Shun or avoid
Eschew
Ardor
Lunacy
Histrionic
50. Complete happiness/ expressing
Felicity
sanguine
Munificent
Scant