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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. Nickname
poncho
barrage
sobriquet
heresy
2. Postpone
defer
incipient
emote
doleful
3. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
profane
decry
taunt
enzyme
4. Seeming appearing as such professed
assiduous
epithet
aspersion
ostensible
5. Bookish showing off learning
dislodge
extant
concoct
pedantic
6. Surprise and fear dismay
corporeal
penurious
consternation
guile
7. Make a humble petition to
extenuate
stifled
supplicate
aplomb
8. Warm and sincere
breach
cordial
fetid
dilate
9. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
sluggard
judicious
satiate
recidivism
10. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
fagged
putrefaction
articulate
turgid
11. Being uncertain hesitating
edacious
brass
vacillation
blithe
12. Open disobedience or resistance
augury
defiance
mischievous
fringe
13. Quality or condition of being sober
sawdust
pulchritude
sobriety
mettle
14. In a dying state; near death
plaintive
waft
ambrosial
moribund
15. Prevent from carrying out contrast
foil
miser
libel
feral
16. Practicing self-denial austere stark
middling
ascetic
occluded
pillage
17. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
sanguine
hew
vagary
supplicate
18. Directing the mind in a certain direction
inclined
truce
aleck
pest
19. Give greatly needed support
console
phlegmatic
scent
bolster
20. To make an effort - to try very hard
raffish
tenacity
endeavor
slack
21. A lament a melancholy composition
flaunting
elegy
indulge
mendicant
22. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
enthral
repine
pique
quandary
23. Cut roughly hired horse
lavish
ferment
hack
enervate
24. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
ambivalent
complaisance
prosaic
cajole
25. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
abacus
stipple
eclat
tangential
26. Repay give in return
deter
pluck
requite
calisthenics
27. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
vigilance
grouse
flax
nonplused
28. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
hoodwink
turbid
submerge
idyll
29. Of the body
eschew
affable
somatic
plumb
30. Easy and painless death
euthanasia
discrete
collusion
feint
31. That can be freed
shrewd
extricable
broach
foolproof
32. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
eddy
boggle
sadastic
hauteur
33. Dull and slow
torpid
tout
cavalcade
abut
34. Sound in judgment wise
alacrity
vigilant
rave
judicious
35. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
attenuate
thwart
esoteric
subsume
36. Increasing the number spreading extending
stipulate
propagation
unfeigned
brass
37. To hinder obstruct or block
turgid
stymie
meticulous
terse
38. Without previous thought or preparation
discourse
extinct
extempore
summarily
39. Physical of or for the body
torque
patron
corporeal
jagged
40. Instruct; correct morally
trudge
paean
edify
ameliorate
41. Additional strengthening evidence
stentorian
corroboration
recast
conceit
42. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
ossify
convoluted
augury
finesse
43. In the highest degree
arrant
scribble
fluke
chicanery
44. Weariness tiredness
lassitude
austere
forgery
pillage
45. Flow in drops
tractable
trickle
intransigence
urbane
46. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
goad
foible
prudence
tenacity
47. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
tamper
gush
dawdler
48. Fearless brave undaunted
dynamo
extempore
intrepid
stingy
49. Suggestion in addition to
dirge
plead
dissemble
connotation
50. To polish rub to a shine
impermeable
officious
accretion
burnish