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Pcat Vocab
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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. State of growing vigorously being full of life
exuberance
vitriolic
valorous
gush
2. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
partisan
satiate
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
deferential
3. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
counterfeit
expatiate
fervor
bereft
4. Instruct; correct morally
enthral
edify
bereft
obtuse
5. Bombastic
trifling
fustian
divestiture
qualm
6. (person) with superior tastes
gallant
flamboyant
highbrow
incorrigibility
7. Deliver provide represent
plunge
sundry
render
impugned
8. Show bodily or mental pain
obtain
flinch
palate
wince
9. Constant
sporadic
cordial
overweening
incessant
10. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
recuperate
abeyance
fawn
ensign
11. Suggest something in the past
reminiscent
decry
fluster
submerge
12. Polloi the masses the rabble
narcissism
hoi
truce
penitent
13. Scold sharply
berate
plead
dolt
presentiment
14. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
puerile
benison
undulate
idolatry
15. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
peremptory
phlegmatic
judicious
ebullient
16. FALSE counterfeit
mendacity
expurgate
opaqueness
spurious
17. Showing respect
deferential
incessant
pulchritude
pied
18. To bring about
viscous
crush
contrite
Conduce
19. Blunt/stupid
meretricious
morbid
penchant
obtuse
20. Brutal racial discrimination
apartheid
specious
mercurial
epithet
21. Renounce disallow repudiate
propitious
canvass
lassitude
forswear
22. Causing no harm
graze
iconoclast
proliferate
innocuous
23. Tactless clumsy
duress
veneration
maladroit
veneer
24. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
onerous
abrogate
aversion
eloquence
25. Make a humble petition to
supplicate
resilience
subdue
covetous
26. Hurt by rough handling
riddle
orison
sponge
maul
27. (of eyes) dull
lackluster
excoriation
prevaricate
upbraid
28. To cut out cut away
disrobe
pertain
equable
exscind
29. Obscene
reverent
salacious
burgeon
veracity
30. Frugal looking to the future
emote
abut
florid
provident
31. Laziness
bellicose
indolence
reproach
submerge
32. Showing self-control
endearing
perfidious
temperate
lugubrious
33. Make rough
rumple
deviance
precursory
heinous
34. Intimidate make fearful
daunt
rejuvenation
recitals
premature
35. Showing no emotion impassive
glib
plead
chisel
stolid
36. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
lucubrate
belligerent
duplicity
37. Gruesome suggesting death
sash
dwarf
snub
macabre
38. Practicing self-denial austere stark
redoubtable
tautology
ascetic
perspicacity
39. Idleness
figurehead
ruffian
sporadic
vacuity
40. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
mundane
stipple
idiosyncrasy
corporeal
41. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
heed
waft
placate
irascible
42. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
censure
florid
incursion
streak
43. Change direction suddenly
consume
savor
austere
swerve
44. Eager and cheerful readiness
repudiate
alacrity
inadvertent
unfeigned
45. Crouch shrink back
excoriation
cower
impair
euphoria
46. Immoral person
malinger
presumption
anguish
libertine
47. Wish or activity in doing good
glimmer
benevolence
overhaul
dissent
48. Celebrated famous
tenacity
renowned
jibe
boorish
49. Careful economical
divestiture
frugal
discredit
hoi
50. To assuage to satisfy allay
disingenuous
congeal
slake
gallant