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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. Opening broken place breaking
breach
ferret
figurehead
paucity
2. Smell (especially pleasant)
connote
acarpous
scent
pitfall
3. To great to be described in words
alleviate
ineffable
redeem
disinter
4. Write in scholarly fashion
sash
lucubrate
hubris
divestiture
5. Accustomed to adapted
inured
cogent
raconteur
topple
6. Discover by searching search
ferret
moribund
exscind
inured
7. Skeptical unwilling to believe
incredulous
shrill
reminiscent
malevolence
8. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
coy
malign
centurion
expurgate
9. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
cabal
heterogeneous
fatuous
veritable
10. Surprise and fear dismay
alacrity
temperate
consternation
enthral
11. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
contrite
quell
abide
brass
12. Mean contemptible
invective
curtail
forbear
scurvy
13. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
taunt
delineate
implicit
ostracism
14. Meticulous
ferocity
punctilious
fagged
lull
15. See with an effort but clearly
secular
discern
turbulence
hew
16. Bitter quarrel over a long period of time
feud
sequence
revere
conceal
17. Hesitating undecided
covetous
recidivism
irresolute
plaque
18. Written order
writ
auxiliary
snare
penitent
19. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
admonitory
inveigh
undermine
indefatigability
20. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
protracted
adorn
trickle
21. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conceit
antithetical
substantiation
implacable
22. Aud a person of something
insinuate
malinger
mulct
coda
23. Omen marvelous threatening
verisimilitude
temperate
trickle
portent
24. An inexperienced person.
broach
ale
fledgling
deposition
25. Take the place of
supersede
preternatural
provoke
minatory
26. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
eddy
noxious
tout
endeavor
27. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
engrave
tautology
welter
28. Rich and deep plump and round
adamant
rotund
jocular
resuscitation
29. Easily done
soporific
facile
attenuate
jabber
30. Preliminary anticipating
mercurial
extinguish
precursory
accretion
31. To resist separation
cloture
reticent
inimical
cling
32. Roughness of manner or of surface
stickler
asperity
retinue
sober
33. Emergency an urgent situation
amalgamate
repine
exigency
dainty
34. Adjective
qualm
sanctimony
epithet
ramify
35. Trivial poorly constructed verse
shunned
treacherous
doggerel
rift
36. Government ruled by old people
divergence
coeval
gerontocracy
heretic
37. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
abysmal
mettlesome
fringe
connoisseur
38. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
entice
detumescence
loll
preternatural
39. Devious/not straightforward
tortuous
peripatetic
fledgling
idiosyncrasy
40. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
slur
overweening
dainty
countervail
41. Complex subtle refined
sophisticated
pique
undulate
disingenuous
42. Having a desire to revenge
haughty
sophisticated
vindictive
disproof
43. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
yeoman
decry
shrill
inveigh
44. Taking off getting rid of giving up
divestiture
forage
pique
sententious
45. Severe pain or suffering
chaste
waft
discomfit
torment
46. Elation state of pleasant excitement
vitiate
euphoria
paucity
quixotic
47. Draw move back wince
craven
flinch
garner
penitent
48. Self-controlled
apartheid
turgid
churl
sober
49. Regular customer person who gives support
idyll
tonic
patron
alloy
50. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
inclined
attenuate
austere
fledgling