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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. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
barren
abeyance
foolproof
deplete
2. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
impervious
stint
adamant
vanquish
3. Personal mannerism
pluck
idiosyncrasy
dote
abscond
4. Violent cruel man
predominate
render
ruffian
barrage
5. Cruel killing of a large number of people
propinquity
transitory
massacre
quandary
6. Treat as a famous person
lionize
somersault
obviate
aleck
7. Polloi the masses the rabble
inured
hoi
falter
misanthrope
8. Show much fondness center one's attention
dote
hapless
turquoise
placate
9. Compel
muffler
espouse
constrain
stingy
10. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
apprehensive
finical
implacable
belabor
11. Having plenty of space for what is needed
commodious
esoteric
luculent
imperious
12. To darken make obscure muddle
turbulence
obfuscate
soot
partisan
13. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
desuetude
mesmerize
misanthrope
censure
14. Intended to instruct
cornucopia
didactic
premature
paean
15. Easily shocked excessively modest
recluse
prudish
endorse
forswear
16. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
lucubrate
grouse
wanton
regicide
17. Person much smaller the usual size
gainsay
moderation
snub
dwarf
18. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
propinquity
specious
indistinct
preen
19. Causing tears tearful
drowsiness
convoluted
lachrymose
rant
20. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
misogynist
cloture
dulcet
repel
21. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
indefatigability
clientele
impair
blandness
22. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
edible
salutary
falter
maladroit
23. That cannot be changed
immutable
alacrity
expurgate
adamant
24. Healthful
malinger
salubrious
retrospective
congeal
25. Gruesome suggesting death
occluded
malinger
grouse
macabre
26. The saving of property from loss
parley
anguish
salvage
expedient
27. Haughtiness
recuperate
treacherous
erudite
hauteur
28. Helping supporting
expostulate
auxiliary
repel
complaisance
29. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
commemorate
truce
plunge
abhor
30. Refuse to believe
compunction
palatial
discredit
ingest
31. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
hollow
malleable
evoke
dilate
32. Mark of shame or disgrace
synopsis
topple
stigma
quiescence
33. Treat with contempt
snub
dynamo
abet
temperate
34. To great to be described in words
penury
apartheid
treacherous
ineffable
35. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
reticent
stigmatize
ensconce
odious
36. Causing no harm
expostulate
innocuous
allegiance
malign
37. Obscene
inured
discreet
salacious
profligacy
38. To debase by mixing with something inferior
apotheosis
alloy
burnish
jabber
39. Keeping on putting off
consternation
alacrity
impromptu
procrastination
40. Belong as a part have reference
incipient
quandary
pertain
assuage
41. Greedy (esp for money)
affable
latent
aver
rapacious
42. Prevent from carrying out contrast
agglutinate
console
affable
foil
43. Brief summary representative example a typical model
timorous
epitome
loquacious
onus
44. Feeling sleepy half asleep
benign
profane
drowsiness
flaunting
45. Incapable of failure or error
foolproof
denigrate
lackluster
adamant
46. Needing effort burdensome
solvent
onerous
perfunctory
recluse
47. Provide supply
cabal
venal
aversion
purvey
48. Order given by authority
vacillation
tepid
lucubrate
decree
49. Large pile of wood for burning
pyre
saturnine
ulterior
broach
50. Skeptical unwilling to believe
accretion
incredulous
urbane
dubious