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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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1. A connection tie or link
brook
nexus
welter
introspection
2. Enthusiasm
frugal
noisome
chaste
ardor
3. Quality or condition of being sober
sobriety
imperviousness
arabesque
streak
4. Walk heavily
quiescence
enmity
counterfeit
trudge
5. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
ferment
nebulous
surcharge
grievous
6. Over look at with selfish delight
imperious
gloat
droll
intransigent
7. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
stigma
palate
dissemble
petrous
8. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
abscond
connote
sententious
convoluted
9. One who turns towards himself
allegiance
distrait
introvert
salacious
10. Unresisting submissive
resigned
caustic
chastisement
steeply
11. Beat hard
propinquity
belabor
tout
tonic
12. A possession
mettlesome
cavalcade
arboreal
torment
13. Able to float light-hearted
forge
buoyant
calipers
salacious
14. Noisy quarrel
fracas
simper
sheath
transient
15. Request
plea
repel
propinquity
aplomb
16. Snub
fracas
prevaricate
rebuff
irate
17. Winding undulating serpentine
sinuous
salacious
disallow
moderation
18. Mix combine unite societies
dexterity
loll
pitfall
amalgamate
19. Make rough
retinue
germane
impromptu
rumple
20. Praise approval
asterisk
accolade
taut
perfidy
21. Fall plunge steeply
shunt
unencumbered
encomium
plummet
22. Without preparation
cogitate
mellifluous
dearth
impromptu
23. Lowest weakest point
nadir
muffler
spear
fringe
24. Able to fly trained experienced
erratic
fledged
fulsome
sporadic
25. Promise or swear to give up
ineptitude
jejune
abjure
paean
26. Strong energetic
egress
fidget
cordial
vigorous
27. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
massacre
opaqueness
paradigm
nonchalant
28. Epidemic
legacy
hauteur
endemic
philanthropist
29. State of being passive/motionless
quiescence
impudent
countenance
expostulate
30. Mischievous trick played to deceive
offhand
avid
forgery
hoax
31. Contempt dislike aversion
odium
savor
discreet
submerge
32. Careful/prudent
enigma
coeval
palpitate
discreet
33. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
boisterous
sidestep
extirpate
molt
34. Intimidate make fearful
profuse
detumescence
daunt
fulmination
35. Hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
ambidextrous
abeyance
obdurate
incite
36. Hot enough to boil
scalding
exscind
blase
garrulous
37. Opposing progress
auxiliary
reactionary
venal
clot
38. Not easily discouraged or subdued
enigma
fragrant
indomitable
latent
39. Worldly having contempt for God
fawn
profane
gauche
vacillation
40. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
poignant
coy
pyre
acclaimed
41. Flood cover by overflowing
repast
inundate
grandiloquent
defalcate
42. Native
incumbents
sordid
indigenous
stygian
43. Catalyst
forestall
deprecate
enzyme
jejune
44. Renounce disallow repudiate
disheveled
flout
forswear
derogatory
45. Unaware having no memory
oblivious
abstruse
savor
vain
46. Be destroyed decay
perish
ebullience
lithe
turbid
47. Haughty arrogant commanding
abide
petrified
imperviousness
sever
48. Describe somebody scornfully
gregarious
stigmatize
shrill
gist
49. Harmful or unfriendly
wince
renowned
peccadillo
inimical
50. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
gorge
impute
epistle
plethora