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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. Slander say evil things
mesmerize
bolster
vilify
torpid
2. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
lustrous
simper
baleful
acumen
3. Refuse to believe
discredit
dulcet
shrill
forfeit
4. Enclose in capsule
sordid
encapsulate
agile
dubious
5. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
imprecation
surfeit
retard
inscrutable
6. Wickedness shamefulness
turpitude
countervail
vindictive
preternatural
7. To clear from a charge of guilt
extrovert
exculpate
volatile
odor
8. Cruel killing of a large number of people
massacre
rancorous
obstreperous
insularity
9. Repeal or annul by authority
virago
suppress
meretricious
abrogate
10. To chastise correct by punishing
germane
indigence
derivative
castigate
11. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
impute
impudent
curriculum
garrulous
12. Not new
trite
provisional
probity
foible
13. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
incipient
fawn
dolt
conviction
14. Careful/prudent
equilibrium
veer
idyll
discreet
15. Great flood heavy rush of water
consternation
contumacious
antidote
deluge
16. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
flamboyant
apropos
taunt
boggle
17. Without previous thought or preparation
defalcate
attenuate
extempore
clot
18. Disintegration looseness in morals
dissolution
impair
writ
indulgent
19. Winding undulating serpentine
ubiquitous
sinuous
talon
recalcitrant
20. One who hates women/females
mundane
entreat
inured
misogynist
21. Of the body
accolade
somatic
convoke
dolt
22. Idleness
gorge
exuberance
attune
vacuity
23. Involving or using conversation.
temerity
chary
colloquial
encumbrance
24. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
bolster
scabbard
impute
benign
25. To favor or approve of
calipers
fret
retard
countenance
26. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
swerve
bedizen
cornucopia
impetuous
27. Nurture care for
foster
wile
piquant
punitive
28. Legal trickery/false argument
aplomb
connoisseur
prodigal
chicanery
29. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
equilibrium
admonitory
incongruous
gust
30. Shyness
fetter
recidivism
insularity
diffidence
31. Show feel great sorrow
summarily
implacable
servile
lament
32. Propriety properness
obtuse
bewilder
decorum
ignominious
33. Present everywhere
ubiquitous
lavish
bogus
perfidy
34. Person guilty of murder
felon
gourmand
sting
empirical
35. Constant
sanction
incessant
punctilious
molt
36. Not having interest
sere
nonchalant
balk
garble
37. Long thin move very fast
streak
cumbersome
condense
frugal
38. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
eclat
vivacious
elaborate
turgid
39. Not to be trusted - perfidious
treacherous
bewilder
eddy
stipulate
40. Formal praise panegyric
epithet
ecumenical
eulogy
didactic
41. Receding
retrograde
moribund
supercilious
lachrymose
42. Imminent being about to happen expected
brash
feint
hermetic
impending
43. Wretched comfortless contemptible
sordid
pariah
dubious
malevolence
44. Warning sign
presage
sluggard
solvent
pied
45. Physical beauty
vanquish
profuse
pulchritude
felon
46. Attractive on the surface but of little value
meretricious
proscribe
burnish
argot
47. Extremely loud and powerful
stentorian
retinue
sodden
chisel
48. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
stride
forfeit
blase
spurious
49. Individually distinct
savant
viscous
discrete
engrossing
50. A number of performance of music
fawn
engrossing
aversion
recitals