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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 destroy exterminate cut out exscind
lull
disparate
appease
extirpate
2. Weariness tiredness
temerity
smolder
rift
lassitude
3. Obsequious flatterer
expurgate
fulmination
hack
toady
4. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
ambidextrous
equable
presentiment
palpitate
5. Additional load/charge
churl
coeval
surcharge
spear
6. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
equilibrium
propitious
accretion
turpitude
7. Common
prevalent
endearing
surcharge
pique
8. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
laudatory
harbinger
ascetic
gourmand
9. Attract - lure
cabal
proscribe
entice
retrograde
10. Giving great attention to details
meticulous
probity
prodigious
irate
11. Enormous wonderful
toady
pluck
inscrutable
prodigious
12. To debase by mixing with something inferior
incessant
alloy
facile
whimsical
13. Put pour fill
infuse
idolatry
lumber
inured
14. Person of great learning
inadvertent
torpid
savant
quack
15. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
recidivism
ail
beguile
exigency
16. Ill-tempered unsocial
grumble
refulgent
morose
perfunctory
17. Narrow-mindedness isolated
ineluctable
insularity
plummet
buoyant
18. Discover by searching search
ferret
piquant
consume
sagacious
19. Winding undulating serpentine
sinuous
penurious
pillage
incorrigibility
20. Serious requiring consideration
daunt
perfidious
grave
trenchant
21. Get back by payment compensate
beatify
jabber
redeem
spurn
22. Burden things that get on the way of
encumbrance
partisan
stolid
substantiation
23. Diligent hard-working sedulous
subpoena
counterfeit
assiduous
epicurean
24. Bold
engulf
maudlin
quirk
audacious
25. Make known something secret
interdict
divulge
clinch
enthral
26. To hate to detest
untoward
misanthrope
fret
abhor
27. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
ingest
blase
incredulous
burgeon
28. Discourage hinder
daunt
penury
petrify
deter
29. Learned scholarly
empirical
erudite
levee
cant
30. Fond of in the habit of fighting
fatuous
serration
pugnacious
mince
31. Needing effort burdensome
soar
combustion
recalcitrant
onerous
32. Measure hoe heavy something is
rebuff
weigh
myriad
inadvertent
33. (person) with superior tastes
recidivism
highbrow
mischievous
knit
34. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
extinct
mien
molt
complaisance
35. Easily seen remarkable
paradigm
travesty
Conduce
conspicuous
36. Give comfort or sympathy to
divestiture
console
prevaricate
riddle
37. Worldly having contempt for God
profane
atonement
virago
recidivism
38. That cannot be rubbed out
invincible
bigot
indelible
commodious
39. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
dearth
slur
portent
extempore
40. Steel tool for shaping materials
benison
malinger
eradicate
chisel
41. Crouch shrink back
quell
indolence
transgress
cower
42. Make beautiful
dislodge
embellish
hack
supercilious
43. Cause produce give rise to
foible
engender
premature
vigorous
44. Crawl humble oneself
grovel
depredation
attune
vagary
45. Doing or happening something before the right time
penurious
wanton
consequential
premature
46. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
tortuous
ossify
pinch
aspersion
47. Present everywhere
implacable
ubiquitous
introvert
seminal
48. Border on
intrepid
abut
diaphanous
consternation
49. Write hastily
scribble
console
cravat
exigency
50. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
boggle
imperviousness
surcharge
accretion