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    PCAT Vocab1

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    PCAT Vocab1

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    The document contains definitions for 50 words, ranging from parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The words cover a wide variety of topics including emotions, occupations, physical objects, abstract concepts, and more. Many of the words have negative or unpleasant meanings involving anger, greed, poverty, restrictions, deception, illness, and criticism.

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    The document contains definitions for 50 words, ranging from parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The words cover a wide variety of topics including emotions, occupations, physical objects, abstract concepts, and more. Many of the words have negative or unpleasant meanings involving anger, greed, poverty, restrictions, deception, illness, and criticism.

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    PCAT Vocab1

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    Gloria Zhang
    The document contains definitions for 50 words, ranging from parts of speech like nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The words cover a wide variety of topics including emotions, occupations, physical objects, abstract concepts, and more. Many of the words have negative or unpleasant meanings involving anger, greed, poverty, restrictions, deception, illness, and criticism.

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    a biased way of looking at or

    slant
    presenting something

    ire intense anger, wrath

    peal loud, prolonged ringing of bells

    someone who fights with his


    pugilist
    fists for sport

    a fisherman who uses a hook


    angler
    and line

    avarice greed; desire for wealth

    hilt sword handle

    slake satisfy (thirst)


    not having enough money to
    impecunious
    pay for necessities

    hovel shack

    arduous difficult to accomplish

    one who is playfully


    rapscallion
    mischievous

    lugubrious mournful, gloomy

    narrowly restricted in outlook


    parochial
    or scope

    promulgated formally made public

    penny-pinching; excessively
    penurious
    thrifty; ungenerous
    bigoted intolerant; narrow-minded

    approbation official recognition or approval

    derision ridicule, mockery

    to remove objectionable
    passages or words from a
    expurgate
    written text; to cleanse, purify;
    to censor

    paregoric medicine that eases pain

    panacea cure-all

    lambast censure severely or angrily

    astute shrewd; clever


    intended to deceive or entrap;
    insidious
    sly, treacherous

    gale a very strong wind

    credulous gullible

    incredulous disbelieving, skeptical

    the science or philosophy of


    jurisprudence
    law

    glower to stare angrily

    lugubrious mournful, gloomy

    done in a routine way;


    perfunctory
    indifferent
    fallow inactive, plowed but not sowed

    requisite required; necessary

    to inspire or influence; to
    imbue
    saturate

    lacking flavor; dull; not at all


    insipid
    stimulating

    anathema a cursed, detested person

    to blame for something; a


    reproach
    disgrace

    jibe agree; be in harmony with

    high-spirited; lively; bold,


    pert
    saucy; jaunty

    mulish stubborn
    restraint in speech, reluctance
    reticence
    to speak

    a feeling of sympathy; a quality


    pathos
    that arouses pity or tenderness

    brashness foolish daring; recklessness

    skilled in handling difficult


    tactful
    situations or people, polite

    hazy, vague, indistinct, or


    nebulous
    confused

    fracas a noisy quarrel or brawl

    strong columns that serve as


    collonades support for some building or
    structure

    fulminate criticize severely

    a sickness, illness, disease,


    malady
    disorder
    lacking in courage and manly
    pusillanimous
    strength and resolution

    skillful (or showing skill) in


    adroit
    adapting means to ends

    inviolate uncorrupted

    raconteur a skilled storyteller

    secret, concealed;
    clandestine
    underhanded

    stubbornly disobedient,
    recalcitrant
    resisting authority

    persuade not to do; discourage;


    dissuade
    N. dissuasion

    extremely harmful; deadly,


    pernicious
    fatal
    exceptionally early in
    precocious
    development or occurrence

    mendicant beggar

    libidinous lustful, lascivious

    dissolute loose in morals

    continent restrained

    innocent, simple; frank,


    ingenuous
    sinceresyn: artless
    common, prevalent,
    widespread, happening often;
    rife
    full, abounding; plentiful,
    abundant, replete

    abstruse difficult to understand

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