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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. To take in marriage
ebullience
peccadillo
espouse
rabble
2. Scold sharply
bask
glimmer
clot
berate
3. Unoriginal obtained from another source
predominate
ineffable
derivative
proclivity
4. Celebrated famous
plumb
desuetude
renowned
harrow
5. Alarm excited state of mind
concur
neophyte
trepidation
flinch
6. Severe suffering
exhaustive
benison
anguish
glib
7. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
reticent
expostulate
decry
pine
8. Keeping on putting off
rapacious
reverent
crush
procrastination
9. Propriety properness
decorum
predominate
underbid
chastisement
10. In a dying state; near death
tamper
congeal
undulate
moribund
11. A repetition a redundancy
inadvertent
sanctimony
harangue
tautology
12. Showing respect
presage
fulsome
succor
deferential
13. Stupid fellow
synopsis
feud
dolt
vituperate
14. Unlawful forbidden
rift
incessant
illicit
impair
15. Write in scholarly fashion
lucubrate
veneration
volubility
gerontocracy
16. Use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
embezzle
remonstrate
vigilant
disallow
17. Like a rock hard stony
loquacious
distrait
rejuvenation
petrous
18. Looking ill - not bright
repast
wan
obsequious
drone
19. Break go beyond (a limit)
reminiscent
extrovert
superfluous
transgress
20. Waste away bite steadily
catalyst
gnaw
meretricious
benign
21. Collapse bursting inward
implosion
caustic
quibble
profligacy
22. Forcefulness
fetid
hubris
rant
vehemence
23. Short piece of humorous writing
indulgent
petulant
skit
sumptuous
24. Passage that completes a piece of music
trickle
detumescence
cordial
coda
25. Stare at
abdication
prodigious
fixate
contemn
26. Infertile worn out weak
froward
effete
enigma
soot
27. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
asterisk
indefatigability
aggravate
introspection
28. Native
morose
irresolute
indigenous
compunction
29. Steel tool for shaping materials
chisel
impermeable
thrift
machination
30. Person of great learning
insensible
savant
rotund
harrow
31. Reproving a person for his faults
servile
turbid
sermon
neophyte
32. Become quiet or less active
lull
emaciate
elaborate
foray
33. Contempt dislike aversion
drawl
perish
curtail
odium
34. Insubordinate rebellious
boorish
contumacious
curtail
cloture
35. Sluggish dull not tight
interdict
slack
proscribe
taunt
36. Brave
dissent
squat
valorous
implosion
37. Substance become excited
abdication
edible
ferment
disseminate
38. Soaked saturated
cloture
sodden
wile
calisthenics
39. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
clot
prone
centurion
duress
40. Rich and deep plump and round
requite
dexterity
rotund
cognizant
41. Opening broken place breaking
exhaustive
breach
cantankerous
permeate
42. Silly senseless
aver
inane
maverick
maul
43. Repeal/annul/cancel
rescind
mischievous
predominate
levee
44. Direct opposing
fawn
antithetical
libertine
ameliorate
45. Repeal or annul by authority
patron
implicit
trifling
abrogate
46. Forgery
counterfeit
plunge
balk
officious
47. Distracted violently upset in mind
pileous
distraught
rubicund
obloquy
48. Incapable of being discovered or understood
panegyric
inscrutable
evasive
jocular
49. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
trepidation
vilify
prosaic
complaisance
50. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
misogynist
lien
euthanasia
foppish