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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
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. Move quickly suddenly and with force
plunge
endearing
hirsute
libel
2. Touching neighboring near
iconoclast
machination
turquoise
contiguous
3. Bending twisting
lithe
churlish
churl
atonement
4. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
rejuvenation
sophistry
didactic
pivotal
5. Say or do again several times
shallow
reiterate
foster
hirsute
6. Dethronement depositing
extenuate
malapropism
tyro
deposition
7. Very great (es. stupidity)
mendicant
cabal
crass
grave
8. Present but not yet active developed or visible
aggravate
latent
interim
pique
9. Tiny bits of wood
irrevocable
sawdust
deluge
perpetrate
10. Frugal looking to the future
astringent
provident
aversion
rivet
11. To make hard rocklike
malapropism
petrify
synopsis
defer
12. Using pompous words
grandiloquent
admonitory
brash
writ
13. Looking back on past
enigma
retrospective
sluggard
libertine
14. Enormous wonderful
untoward
pest
prodigious
husk
15. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
dwarf
repast
eloquence
shunt
16. Punishment
inscrutable
ineluctable
fecund
chastisement
17. Walk heavily
trudge
tangential
covetous
eclat
18. Skeptical unwilling to believe
acumen
presentiment
incredulous
pugnacious
19. Certain inevitable
ineluctable
pervade
astringent
hush
20. Very great number
hypocrisy
nadir
myriad
peregrination
21. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
hone
savor
onus
plaque
22. To shackle put in chains
flop
fetter
venal
gauche
23. Puzzling person or thing
coagulation
bilge
ameliorate
riddle
24. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
veritable
impute
repast
superfluous
25. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
proliferate
protracted
catalyst
edible
26. Uncertain risky dangerous
precarious
vivacious
elaborate
gossamer
27. Easily gulled
soar
pique
travesty
gullible
28. That cannot be rubbed out
indelible
ambrosial
tout
edible
29. Way out exit
personable
boggle
limp
egress
30. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
overweening
concur
waft
31. Upset the self-possession of
savant
duress
disconcert
transgress
32. Impress deeply
engrave
ponderous
alcove
demagogue
33. A trick
maladroit
wile
consume
flak
34. Not paying proper attention
exorbitant
inadvertent
forage
attenuate
35. Perfect/make perfect/complete
irksome
consummate
moderation
pique
36. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
asterisk
immutable
endeavor
enthral
37. Poverty
indigence
livid
blatant
chauvinist
38. Intimidate make fearful
precursory
daunt
tadpole
bogus
39. Likely to come or happen soon
imminent
multifarious
engrave
aver
40. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
mendacious
sententious
retinue
proclivity
41. A beginner
solvent
suppress
tyro
spear
42. Having plenty of space for what is needed
commodious
voluptuous
implicate
incongruous
43. Sound in judgment wise
ferocity
turbid
judicious
accolade
44. Adjective
encapsulate
calumny
epithet
pervade
45. Ask earnestly
dislodge
temperance
shrewd
entreat
46. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
opaqueness
engulf
equable
entice
47. Tightly stretched
endearing
ulterior
taut
prevalent
48. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
suppliant
phlegmatic
ensign
tractable
49. Representing the whole Christian world
ecumenical
hapless
punitive
yeoman
50. Defying imitation unmatchable
shallow
idolatry
inimitable
disinter