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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. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
baneful
inundate
misogynist
repast
2. Agreement or harmony
lugubrious
rumple
rejuvenation
concord
3. Fix take up secure metal pin
rivet
desiccant
narcissism
limn
4. Make unfair selection from facts
garble
churl
countervail
sere
5. Rubbed off worn away by friction
berate
abraded
render
fluke
6. Still in existence
congeal
coax
relapse
extant
7. Puzzle confuse
reticent
bewilder
turbulence
erratic
8. Winding undulating serpentine
judicious
sinuous
shunned
demur
9. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
scorch
erratic
dormant
abide
10. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
hirsute
crease
itinerate
detumescence
11. Prolonged
elaborate
protracted
sophisticated
veracity
12. Bunch of threads
petulant
knit
perfidy
tassel
13. Describe somebody scornfully
stigmatize
enzyme
untoward
soggy
14. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
implosion
suffocate
admonitory
debacle
15. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
stymie
felicitous
mollify
wince
16. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
shunt
sublime
mischievous
propinquity
17. More then is needed or wanted
truculence
obtrusive
superfluous
ire
18. Able to float light-hearted
mendacious
grievous
forgery
buoyant
19. Taken away power (to think feel act)
reactionary
sobriety
inane
petrified
20. Of the internal organs of the body
umbrage
quandary
visceral
exploit
21. Like a seed constituting a source originative
regicide
abjure
seminal
belabor
22. Make rough
sawdust
extricable
ingest
rumple
23. Show off complacently
incursion
lassitude
ascend
flaunting
24. Person who is slow waste of time
rabble
fracas
demur
dawdler
25. Violent cruel man
ruffian
liberality
seminal
lament
26. Continue doing something without resting
ignoble
astute
conceal
plod
27. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
cravat
auspicious
strut
penitent
28. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
undulate
adamant
pellucid
travesty
29. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
vanquish
recreancy
counterfeit
churlish
30. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
viscous
hypocrisy
engrossing
luminary
31. Hardship
reprobate
pyre
auxiliary
privation
32. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
pariah
disparate
recidivism
chaste
33. Boldness impudence arrogance
deter
effrontery
sundry
refine
34. Cruel
maudlin
sadastic
pied
implacable
35. Call up bring out
florid
affable
pillage
evoke
36. Call together summon
convoke
supplicate
fret
flax
37. Incapable of failure or error
foolproof
rabble
dislodge
turpitude
38. To clear from a charge of guilt
exculpate
nostrum
curriculum
garble
39. Showing no emotion impassive
impending
acclaimed
incite
stolid
40. Disguised
heinous
covert
cordon
philanthropist
41. Walk heavily
enervate
congeal
tortuous
trudge
42. Dejected
weigh
recreancy
ruffian
rueful
43. Try to avoid by sophistication
turbid
vilify
obstreperous
quibble
44. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
loll
ecumenical
muffler
arboreal
45. Greedy (esp for money)
toady
barren
rapacious
proscribe
46. Spread into every part of
pundit
permeate
abut
unencumbered
47. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
panegyric
vindictive
pusillanimous
48. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
venal
odious
nonchalant
49. Health of mind soundness of judgment
sanity
sanguine
alcove
enunciate
50. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
mollify
encomium
fleet
deviance