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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. Aggressiveness ferocity
beatify
truculence
libertine
aberration
2. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
delineate
latent
quixotic
fluke
3. Like a slave lacking independence
servile
resuscitation
incongruous
pedantic
4. Anticipatory fear; premonition
epithet
redeem
articulate
presentiment
5. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
harbinger
acclaimed
complaisance
sever
6. Becoming rotten
plaque
alacrity
vacuity
putrefaction
7. To polish rub to a shine
arrogance
enduring
assiduous
burnish
8. Feeling doubt
sublime
molt
dubious
scalding
9. Personal mannerism
jibe
goad
collusion
idiosyncrasy
10. State or put forward as a necessary condition
vigorous
droll
guile
stipulate
11. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
vagary
dote
incongruous
dissemble
12. Of the present time only
provisional
demagogue
mendicant
mince
13. The point general sense
gist
foment
incense
assuage
14. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
perjury
disingenuous
turbulence
incorrigibility
15. Making dear or liked
endearing
debacle
penurious
venal
16. Change to a thick and solid state
incense
coagulation
abstruse
disdain
17. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
complaisance
conjoin
overweening
obtrusive
18. Excessive admiration of
idolatry
inured
crush
aplomb
19. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
imprecation
propagation
contiguous
20. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
implacable
entreat
suppress
odium
21. Meticulous
frantic
sketchy
punctilious
mercurial
22. Shameless immorality
profligacy
egress
dainty
perish
23. Incapable of being discovered or understood
purvey
inscrutable
provident
inveterate
24. Give notice to inform
quack
apprise
pillage
austere
25. Greenish-blue precious stone
disconcert
quibble
turquoise
bewilder
26. Make (pain) easier to bear
fleet
dexterity
alleviate
salubrious
27. Bad-tempered person
curmudgeon
sidestep
aleck
pious
28. Coming together and uniting into one substance
nugatory
coalescing
sponge
nadir
29. A beggar
flamboyant
swerve
taunt
mendicant
30. Feeling of regret for one's action
teetotal
compunction
surcharge
subpoena
31. Sluggish dull not tight
lumber
highbrow
slack
abut
32. Get something inquire too curiously
sycophant
perspicacity
trite
pry
33. Make beautiful
caustic
embellish
avid
animosity
34. Active quick-moving
agile
congeal
pristine
gouge
35. Epidemic
brash
endemic
discountenance
tamper
36. Suggestion in addition to
auspicious
convoluted
connotation
presumption
37. Make angry
jabber
perch
incense
importune
38. Of the body
somatic
enthral
desuetude
inchoate
39. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
gourmand
glut
impervious
stingy
40. Paint with dots
stipple
preen
somatic
mendacity
41. Red and healthy
contrite
cogitate
gauche
rubicund
42. Calmness of temperament
nadir
underbid
disingenuous
equanimity
43. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
harbinger
invective
prevaricate
acumen
44. Spend wastefully
shun
opaqueness
squander
fixate
45. Like a seed constituting a source originative
abate
seminal
repel
doggerel
46. Dethronement depositing
gorge
congeal
deposition
sullied
47. Lucky stroke
clot
fluke
equipoise
coddle
48. Shyness
diffidence
resort
fret
admonitory
49. Arousing sensual pleasures
apostate
voluptuous
cogitate
brittle
50. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
rotund
glean
veer
indistinct