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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. Leather case for a pistol
sophisticated
holster
tadpole
upbraid
2. Ready and smooth but not sincere
derision
glib
lampoon
peripatetic
3. Contempt dislike aversion
undulate
odium
baneful
retrospective
4. Jargon slang
vituperate
husk
argot
mettlesome
5. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
veritable
gourmand
edify
elaborate
6. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
concoct
machination
hoax
flamboyant
7. Merry person
garble
ascribe
wag
petrous
8. Haughty arrogant commanding
impiety
sordid
sash
imperviousness
9. Ready to do something dishonest
commuter
venal
scent
ensconce
10. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
egress
coruscate
cabal
panegyric
11. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
chary
epiphany
timid
impute
12. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
pest
agile
caustic
jagged
13. Negotiation
propitiatory
prodigal
parley
extirpate
14. Present everywhere
livid
ascertain
ubiquitous
tamp
15. Giving great attention to details
ensconce
dislodge
meticulous
raffish
16. Make a humble petition to
abhor
supplicate
deprave
auspicious
17. Invent - prepare by mixing together
concoct
distrait
pliant
profligate
18. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
undulate
foment
bigot
coax
19. Ill-tempered unsocial
countervail
offhand
morose
vigilance
20. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
augury
ostensible
jabber
cogent
21. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
desultory
multifarious
encomium
shunned
22. Try to avoid by sophistication
flop
consternation
quibble
squat
23. Avoid
eschew
sodden
cadge
stigmatize
24. Lowest weakest point
taunt
plunge
nadir
moribund
25. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
piquant
combustion
inept
collusion
26. Publicly mock or ridicule
fatuous
lampoon
infuse
misogynist
27. Transparent easy to understand
pellucid
orison
affable
dubious
28. Stare at
foil
elegy
narcissism
fixate
29. Having a toothed edge
combustion
serrated
slake
forbear
30. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
qualm
flout
refractory
coy
31. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
concur
encomium
phlegmatic
simper
32. Emergency an urgent situation
exigency
obviate
proclivity
doleful
33. Silly senseless
lackluster
inane
fawn
lien
34. Sound in judgment wise
ford
judicious
entice
suffocate
35. Hot enough to boil
surcharge
cohort
phlegmatic
scalding
36. Helping supporting
auxiliary
expatiate
turmoil
proclivity
37. Proof to the contrary
overhaul
cordon
collusion
disproof
38. To show clearly to indicate
epistle
evince
eradicate
sketchy
39. Can be felt touched understood
prodigious
gouge
obtrusive
palpability
40. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
dormant
tyro
cryptic
discern
41. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
lucubrate
trickle
fecund
malapropism
42. Brave
valiant
malign
wean
paradigm
43. Substance used to absorb moisture
gist
desiccant
grandiloquent
blandness
44. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
engrossing
fulmination
atonement
striated
45. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
privation
reprobate
onus
cloture
46. Little known abstruse
hermetic
chagrin
recondite
peccadillo
47. Get to know
profundity
ascertain
resilience
effrontery
48. Urgent essential
plethora
imperative
bereft
dulcet
49. Ready to believe things
clientele
verve
credulous
extol
50. Change direction suddenly
delineate
swerve
spear
offhand