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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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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. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
lugubrious
balk
rueful
wag
2. To make great efforts - to struggle
retrograde
edible
strive
personable
3. Having a toothed edge
lope
mite
gust
serration
4. Greedy (esp for money)
impugned
dislodge
pristine
rapacious
5. Able to float light-hearted
picaresque
buoyant
levity
succor
6. Belong as a part have reference
endeavor
inundate
pertain
alacrity
7. Change direction suddenly
amortize
jocular
swerve
shrewd
8. Appearing TRUE or real
verisimilitude
ascribe
ingenuous
balk
9. Suppressed - kept back
stifled
enunciate
nonchalant
graze
10. Dig up from the earth
massacre
lackluster
disinter
premature
11. Hence - awkward
gauche
odious
punctilious
restive
12. Draw move back wince
overhaul
flinch
hollow
boggle
13. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
lavish
latent
aspersion
splice
14. Give comfort or sympathy to
officious
extralegal
somersault
console
15. Depth
profundity
incense
hospitable
irresolute
16. Self-controlled
surfeit
sober
sodden
blandness
17. Easily gulled
bogus
gullible
reactionary
cryptic
18. Severe punishment
wag
equivocal
squat
castigation
19. Process of burning
glimmer
revere
diffidence
combustion
20. Having both of two contrary meanings
brazen
ambivalent
propitious
ostensible
21. Denounce as dangerous
superimpose
introvert
boorish
proscribe
22. Be faithful to endure
abide
heresy
spurn
profundity
23. Inclined to fighting
reciprocity
alcove
dissolution
bellicose
24. Flag/badge
ensign
temperance
prevaricate
viscous
25. Jargon slang
argot
iconoclast
coy
expurgate
26. Special liking mental preference
incorrigibility
castigate
predilection
vigilant
27. Speak distinctly connect by joints
cogitate
articulate
fret
wan
28. Blessing
presentiment
fleet
benison
clinch
29. Bottomless extreme
canvass
recreancy
abysmal
insinuate
30. Stone used for sharpening tools
hone
epiphany
incise
ostensible
31. Engrave make a cut in
prodigious
catalyst
incise
flaunting
32. Adjective
epithet
assuage
soar
craven
33. Receding
retrograde
jocular
foster
hirsute
34. Deification glorification to godliness
dissolution
proliferate
apotheosis
enigma
35. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
refulgent
attune
spear
connote
36. Government ruled by old people
gerontocracy
hollow
gnaw
pucker
37. Smell (especially pleasant)
minatory
scent
toady
covert
38. Uncertain risky dangerous
conspicuous
dainty
precarious
lustrous
39. At be discontented with
retrospective
multifarious
obdurate
repine
40. Haughtiness
erudite
vigilant
dearth
hauteur
41. State or put forward as a necessary condition
stipulate
raffish
salacious
hypocrisy
42. Easy-going trifle
riddle
valiant
asperity
unencumbered
43. Make or become silent
scalding
plethora
balk
hush
44. The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
maverick
incense
bereft
accretion
45. Upset the self-possession of
stigma
breach
disconcert
slack
46. Greatness in number strength weight
frugal
blase
implicate
preponderance
47. Insubstantial flimsy weak
emaciate
limp
eddy
tenuous
48. Too strong to be defeated
turquoise
invincible
reactionary
heterogeneous
49. Make hard and without feeling
mulct
sere
demur
obtuse
50. One who considers himself smarter than others
halcyon
aleck
entangle
fission