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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. Excessively detailed; boring
Circuitous
Amenable
Anathema
Pedant
2. Unreasonably high (i.e. costs)
Discreet
Titillate
Perjury
Exorbitant
3. Lustful
Libidinous
Seraphic
Reticent
cherubic
4. Show great care and perseverance
Errant
Assiduous
Coy
Recondite
5. Large amount of something; myriad
Profusion
Semantic
Subjective
Magnanimous
6. Addition to a will
Recapitulate
Appease
Uncanny
Codicil
7. Spread (i.e something unwelcome)
Prerogative
Pervasive
obverse
Apex
8. Lack harmony; conflicting
adulation
Discordant
Begrudge
Titillate
9. Small quantity
Pedestrian
Hoard
Unanimous
Modicum
10. Express disapproval in action
Inadvertent
revered
Paregoric
Reproach
11. Resign/give up
Booty
Abdicate
Cynical
Captious
12. Violation of faith or loyalty
Indignation
Contentious
Pugilist
perfidy
13. Disease or ailment
Malady
Sterile
Denude
Impetuous
14. Cancel or take back
Hedonist
Rescind
Miscreant
Languish
15. Deceitful/untrustworthy
Tractable
inanimate
Reprimand
Perfidious
16. Post that holds up a handrail
Fortuitous
Dour
Silo
Spindle
17. Selfish motives
Lapel
cynicism
Incompetent
Solace
18. A lover of luxury.
Pusillanimous
foal
sybaritic
Pervasive
19. Accept passively (give in); accede
Frivolous
Predilection
Acquiesce
antebellum
20. (of man) has energy - strong sex-drive
Virile
Garish
Obsequious
Apt
21. (of a person) fat
Ethereal
Bristle
Mendicant
Corpulent
22. Cancel punishment of
Reprieve
Acclimate
Mulish
Perfidious
23. Trap for catching small animals
polemic
Prerogative
Dour
Snare
24. Boxer
Exhort
Parley
Pugilist
Pensive
25. Massive relentless force
Bungler
Denude
Blight
juggernaut
26. Heavy rainfall
Mulish
Insipid
Downpour
meretricious
27. Trick
Skirmish
Ruse
Amulet
Soporific
28. Abusive/highly critical language
Ostentatious
Invective
Scowl
bewildering
29. Based on personal feeling/opinion
Subjective
Scion
Relegate
Paucity
30. Preference/special liking for
Predilection
Indolent
Cynical
Memorandum
31. Strip of covering; make bare
Denude
Seraphic
inanimate
Ascetic
32. Clever/original/inventive
Ingenious
Imbue
Bungler
Mellifluous
33. Fault-finding
Cynical
Scion
Pier
Captious
34. Smelling/tasting unpleasant (stale)
Peal
Insurrection
choleric
Rancid
35. Complaining in whining manner
Querulous
Lugubrious
choleric
Pugilist
36. To flatter/admire excessively.
adulation
Disparage
Coalesce
Acquiesce
37. Covering protecting nerves in teeth
Pertinent
Enamel
juggernaut
Pert
38. Calm; unhurried
Sedate
adulation
Infringe
Domicile
39. Something to vehemently dislike
Anathema
Exonerate
Begrudge
Kudos
40. Profession/science of teaching
Reticent
Pedagogy
pariah
Brigand
41. Servant
Lackey
Quintessence
Seraphic
Slake
42. Like a knight; proud or careless.
Reticent
invidious
Derision
cavalier
43. Not sufficiently skillful
Incompetent
Tame
inanimate
Effervescent
44. Confuse
Derision
Conflagration
Rescind
Discombobulate
45. Art/practice of disputation.
polemic
Valor
Pedagogy
perambulate
46. Medicine for cough/diarrhea (kids)
Paregoric
Contempt
Preside
Circuitous
47. Not harmful or offensive
Innocuous
Anomaly
Ostentatious
Trowel
48. Disease (fungi); thing that spoils
perfidy
Pedant
Impertinent
Blight
49. A hospital
Querulous
Infirmary
Lackey
Subjective
50. Lack strong features/uninteresting
filibuster
Audacious
vitriol
Bland