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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Display to obtain admiration or envy
erratic
ostentation
impair
taunt
2. To assuage to satisfy allay
torment
proscribe
slake
coddle
3. Offensive disgusting (smell)
gist
enervate
noisome
inveigh
4. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
sporadic
exploit
sedulous
corroboration
5. Seeming appearing as such professed
crush
loll
torque
ostensible
6. Easy and painless death
unearth
synopsis
euthanasia
quaff
7. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
cabal
idyll
trenchant
scribble
8. Widespread
perilous
rife
incursion
glut
9. Ready and smooth but not sincere
rave
excoriation
glib
pious
10. Unlucky
balk
hapless
pundit
distrait
11. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
unscathed
plead
slur
erudite
12. Arrogant pride
coerce
hubris
trudge
expurgate
13. Cruel
depredation
defiance
loll
sadastic
14. Secret with a hidden meaning
unscathed
fragile
cryptic
connote
15. To make great efforts - to struggle
descry
coagulation
piquant
strive
16. Conquer
fervid
dolt
flaunting
vanquish
17. Easily injured broken or destroyed
superfluous
dexterity
fragile
coda
18. (adj) boorish
morose
churlish
intransigence
tortuous
19. Letter
suffice
epistle
pyre
supersede
20. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
Conduce
discreet
obloquy
quibble
21. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
dolt
unencumbered
edible
pliant
22. Harmful or unfriendly
inimical
glean
importune
epicurean
23. Quality of being unskillful
pliant
foil
ineptitude
trickle
24. Showing self-control
malleable
variegate
portent
temperate
25. Long thin move very fast
lugubrious
streak
molt
rave
26. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
ferocity
counterfeit
sycophant
sophomoric
27. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
ramify
rant
felon
rebuff
28. Substance become excited
salutary
squalid
sting
ferment
29. To roam wander freely
extenuate
expatiate
curtail
warmonger
30. Self-love
narcissism
forge
timorous
spurious
31. Call up bring out
pundit
evoke
writ
tenuous
32. Pedant authority on a subject
ecumenical
pundit
obstreperous
vestige
33. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
ignominious
beatify
profligate
infuriate
34. Draw together unite firmly
brook
maverick
ambivalent
knit
35. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
talon
fervid
philistine
ascribe
36. Wretched comfortless contemptible
sordid
prudish
preponderance
nascent
37. Incapable of being discovered or understood
recitals
inscrutable
discomfit
imprecation
38. Ridicule mockery deriding
talon
myriad
derision
pedantic
39. State of growing vigorously being full of life
garble
exuberance
profundity
partisan
40. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
ensign
trudge
turbid
transitory
41. Suppress subdue
quell
feint
stingy
cornucopia
42. Stubborn narrow-minded person
tadpole
verisimilitude
exorbitant
bigot
43. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
daunt
vindictive
nascent
44. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
propitious
dainty
succumb
pucker
45. Trying to please; obliging
complaisant
pinch
intransigence
quibble
46. Repeal or annul by authority
dwarf
unfeigned
abrogate
rebus
47. Bad-tempered person
curmudgeon
yarn
subpoena
umbrage
48. Of great importance (others depend on it)
inane
rapacious
pivotal
unencumbered
49. Lose courage turn frightened
quail
diaphanous
impermeable
hack
50. Serious requiring consideration
trenchant
complaisance
grave
grumble