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PCAT Vocab2
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pcat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Strongly held opinion; vehement
Diatribe
Recapitulate
Mulish
Vociferous
2. Lack courage dastard (coward)
Perfunctory
Tractable
Pusillanimous
Raucous
3. Group of entertainers who tour
ostracism
Anachronism
Relegate
Troupe
4. Irritated - angry.
Eminence
Amenable
choleric
Profligate
5. Not sufficiently strict/severe/careful
diligence
Sate (satiate)
Confluence
Lax
6. Outcast
pariah
Recalcitrant
Moratorium
Querulous
7. Fake substitute for a drug
Placebo
Intrepid
adulation
Atelier
8. Tastelessly bright or showy
Quintessence
Pugilist
Gaudy
Abstruse
9. Used by ordinary people; secular
Circuitous
Captious
Fulminate
Demotic
10. Pretending shyness or modesty
Coy
lethargy
Dulcet
Infringe
11. Accustom to new conditions
Downpour
Acclimate
Flounder
Carouse
12. Barren; fruitless
Apt
Semantic
Malady
Sterile
13. End something
Paragon
Frivolous
Hilt
Consummate
14. Worn-out/ordinary; lackluster
Acclimate
apocryphal
Hackneyed
Insurrection
15. Fill with (feeling or quantity)
Imbue
Approbation
Inadvertent
Imperative
16. To exclude from a group by common consent.
Duplicitous
Incompetent
Embroider
ostracism
17. Bring together to form a whole
Coalesce
Strident
Reprieve
Dolorous
18. One living in solitude (religious)
Fluster
Hermit
Innocuous
Auspicious
19. Cause sleep/drowsiness
Bland
Nadir
Soporific
Reprimand
20. Not resulting from plan
Inadvertent
Domicile
Conflagration
inanimate
21. Saying much in few words; brief.
diligence
Invective
laconic - spartan
Frivolous
22. Bucket
Contempt
Ardent
Anodyne
Pail
23. Member of a band
Lackey
Impertinent
Brigand
Balmy
24. Clandestine (secret); stealthy
Felicity
Hedonist
Surreptitious
sybaritic
25. Boxer
Rescind
Memorandum
Boorish
Pugilist
26. Excite (i.e. sexual images - words)
Titillate
Libidinous
Vociferous
cogent
27. Approval; praise
diligence
Extol
Approbation
Dilettante
28. Churlish - vulgar and rude
Boorish
Entomology
Relegate
Exacerbate
29. Fault-finding
Corpulent
Captious
Languish
Lugubrious
30. Extensive/destructive fire
Hermit
Conflagration
Imbue
Blight
31. Unproductive of results
Snare
agnostic
Apprehensive
barrenness
32. Bulky glove
Pert
Mendacity
Discreet
Gauntlet
33. Anger
Ire
Diatribe
Hermit
Mulish
34. Submissive
Docile
Inundate
drawl
Anomaly
35. Add to end of a document
Clamor
Impertinent
Append
Ascetic
36. A studio (where sculpture works)
Reverence
Extol
Ennui
Atelier
37. Lack respect; impudent; insolent
Fracas
Infirmary
Impertinent
Paramour
38. Calm; unhurried
Brackish
Lackey
Depot
Sedate
39. Cancellation of a debt/charge
Anodyne
Histrionic
Remission
Hedonist
40. Part of a suit
Lapel
Boorish
polemic
Regression
41. Fashionable.
Confluence
Bristle
Stoical
posh
42. The use of delaying tactics - like long speeches - especially in a legislative assembly.
Connoisseur
filibuster
Spurn
Scrutiny
43. Medicinal extract.
Candid
Mulish
Exonerate
belladonna
44. Stubborn (like a mule)
Profusion
Dulcet
Amulet
Mulish
45. Make (something bad) worse
Infirmary
Corpulent
Exacerbate
Obstinate
46. Difficult to understand
Allay
Prerogative
Stoical
Abstruse
47. Clear to apprehension/conception.
Demeanor
lucidity
Dilettante
Innocuous
48. Exclusive right/privilege held by
Booty
Profligate
serendipity
Prerogative
49. Expressing disapproval
melancholy
belligerent
Pejorative
Solace
50. Self-resistant (sexually)
perambulate
Hedonist
Pedant
Continent