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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. Wicked/criminal
Anodyne
Mulish
Eschew
Nefarious
2. Having no fear
Hilt
Intrepid
Unanimous
Audacious
3. Lack strong features/uninteresting
Bland
Pail
Sate (satiate)
Pusillanimous
4. Fixed bunk on (allotted area) ship/train
Captious
Philander
Exhort
Berth
5. Bright/showy; extremely decorated
Continent
Garish
belligerent
Sedate
6. Art/practice of disputation.
Revue
polemic
Spurn
Querulous
7. Courage in face of danger (i.e. battle)
Recapitulate
Expedient
Valor
Rescind
8. Reject with disdain
vitriol
Spurn
Entomology
Fickle
9. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Paregoric
Abstruse
Rancid
cogent
10. Country of one's permanent stay
Carouse
Discordant
Domicile
Supplant
11. Something to vehemently dislike
Pedant
lope
Consummate
Anathema
12. Deep respect
Unanimous
Peal
Eschew
Reverence
13. Dizzy
laconic - spartan
Prerogative
Giddy
Modicum
14. Add to end of a document
Append
Infringe
Blight
Consummate
15. One who suffers without complaining.
Ubiquitous
Innocuous
Abdicate
stoic
16. Strongly encourage or urge to do
Hoard
Duplicitous
Surreptitious
Exhort
17. A huge powerful animal; something monstrous in size or power.
Circumlocution
Circuitous
Lugubrious
behemoth
18. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Exorbitant
Vociferous
Predilection
Brackish
19. Prudent; careful
Trowel
Indelible
Discreet
Gluttony
20. Difficult to understand
Kudos
Apprehensive
apocryphal
Abstruse
21. Unoriginal; commonplace
maudlin
Banal
Recapitulate
Reprimand
22. Confuse
Discombobulate
Philander
Tame
Append
23. A hospital
Carouse
Infirmary
Enamel
Conflagration
24. Stubborn (like a mule)
behemoth
inanimate
Mulish
Infirmary
25. Cause to lose confidence/hope
Demoralize
Recondite
Entomology
Dogmatic
26. Insanity
Obstinate
Lunacy
Prerogative
Exhort
27. Forceful/bitter verbal attack
Diatribe
Fortuitous
Pernicious
Demoralize
28. (Of weather) pleasantly warm
Balmy
revered
Downpour
Brackish
29. Annoyance by unfair treatment
Pert
Errant
Continent
Indignation
30. Of vital importance; requisite
Extol
Fortuitous
Imperative
drawl
31. Fake substitute for a drug
Pert
Entomology
Placebo
Ascetic
32. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
stoic
Perturb
Infringe
Imbue
33. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Conducive
Snare
Surreptitious
sanguine
34. Naive(artless - ingenuous) remark or action.
Querulous
Languish
naïvete
Perturb
35. Talkative
Abate
Loquacious
Banal
Mulish
36. Pleasingly smooth/musical to hear
Pedagogy
lethargy
Acclimate
Mellifluous
37. Return to former state
Regression
Reprimand
Lodge
Docile
38. Be in the position of authority
Preside
Lackey
Assiduous
Panacea
39. Showy (no value); prostitute.
meretricious
Desultory
lucidity
Ditty
40. Gather things together
serendipity
Eschew
Desultory
Amalgamate
41. Quench one's thirst; satisfy desire
Lithe
Slake
Euphoric
Unanimous
42. Behave badly/unlawfully; evil
Pier
Ditty
Circuitous
Miscreant
43. Unproductive of results
Brackish
Querulous
barrenness
Solace
44. Stubborn to change one's mind
Pernicious
Kudos
Spindle
Obstinate
45. Place for storage of large commodity
chastened
Depot
Pertinent
Approbation
46. Very small/meager
Paltry
meretricious
maudlin
Rancid
47. Informal private conversation
Exonerate
Confab
Soporific
Booty
48. Express disapproval in action
Admonition
bewildering
Apprehensive
Reproach
49. Where stone is extracted; hunted prey
Troupe
Pilfer
Quarry
Paregoric
50. Represent as little worth; scorn
Acquiesce
Disparage
Gauntlet
Incompetent