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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. Essentially different
fixate
veracity
disparate
turquoise
2. Scold upbraid
veneer
brook
reproach
turbid
3. Put pour fill
infuse
fagged
volatile
glean
4. Worsen diminish in value
enunciate
discomfit
impair
buoyant
5. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
prosaic
curmudgeon
levity
calipers
6. Imminent being about to happen expected
liberality
rescind
impending
suffice
7. To protest object
precarious
remonstrate
lucubrate
miser
8. Trying to please; obliging
tangential
vacillation
exoneration
complaisant
9. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
petulant
undermine
anguish
hoodwink
10. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
surfeit
exploit
interdict
denouement
11. Become quiet or less active
forage
protracted
lull
talon
12. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
plea
taciturn
felicitous
stentorian
13. Epidemic
apt
officious
endemic
coagulation
14. Stupid fellow
berate
dolt
lull
lampoon
15. Humorous funny jocular
concord
cumbersome
nonchalant
facetious
16. Impress deeply
obtuse
engrave
truculence
ineffable
17. Deification glorification to godliness
superimpose
apotheosis
platitude
predilection
18. See with an effort but clearly
rave
sawdust
discern
chastisement
19. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
proliferate
cravat
sobriety
extinguish
20. Settle a quarrel restore peace
contiguous
plaque
congeal
reconcile
21. Avoided - kept away from
trenchant
shunned
jibe
pique
22. Measure hoe heavy something is
paradigm
recidivism
slack
weigh
23. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
fret
incessant
consume
temperance
24. To hesitate raise objections
pry
demur
voluptuous
coeval
25. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
calumny
defalcate
sanguine
lampoon
26. Made up of different kinds
heterogeneous
complaisance
perfunctory
aggravate
27. Causing tears tearful
flaunting
voluble
quibble
lachrymose
28. Happening from time to time
sporadic
expatiate
inquest
arduous
29. Shameless immorality
exscind
wan
profligacy
discountenance
30. Legal trickery/false argument
chicanery
mollify
vex
drawl
31. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
cajole
credulous
chary
officious
32. Treat with contempt
forswear
snub
travesty
extempore
33. Heavy bulky dull
beatify
ponderous
ingest
credulous
34. Take the whole attention - enslave
restive
enthral
avow
render
35. To make great efforts - to struggle
resigned
decorum
strive
cornucopia
36. Too great a readiness to believe things
onus
paradigm
credulity
vex
37. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
discrete
irresolute
vehemence
38. Easily shocked excessively modest
prudish
embellish
diaphanous
quiescence
39. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
infuse
recitals
recreancy
lumber
40. Disapprove of
ostensible
espouse
sycophant
decry
41. To hinder obstruct or block
rant
stymie
coerce
rueful
42. Draw move back wince
obfuscate
flinch
ford
malapropism
43. Make thin and weak
superfluous
labyrinthine
fragile
emaciate
44. Too talkative
vain
substantiation
refulgent
garrulous
45. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
incite
ascribe
apropos
maverick
46. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
inveterate
malinger
effrontery
fatuous
47. Person much smaller the usual size
exigency
dwarf
belligerent
skit
48. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
rancorous
atonement
impetuous
dote
49. Blunt/stupid
supersede
perfidy
poncho
obtuse
50. Repeal or annul by authority
riddle
abrogate
exoneration
gist