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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Of the body
fidget
implicit
disseminate
somatic
2. Person who hates mankind
fringe
preponderance
misanthrope
parenthesis
3. Arrangement to give something at death
endearing
telltale
bequest
ominous
4. Pretend
feint
concoct
philanthropist
lugubrious
5. Counterbalance
countervail
descry
retrospective
inveigh
6. Fill with fury or rage
gerontocracy
innocuous
infuriate
doggerel
7. Prevent from being known put an end to
coy
pry
suppress
variegate
8. Shy easily frightened
cogitate
timid
insipid
epithet
9. Large piece of cloth
conundrum
poncho
burnish
malinger
10. Bring up announce begin to talk about
broach
rebus
peccadillo
impute
11. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
malinger
spurious
surfeit
squander
12. Bending twisting
detumescence
lithe
broach
implicit
13. Yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
brass
germane
impending
refulgent
14. Warmth of feelings earnestness
recreancy
fervor
extralegal
dote
15. Complain or grumble (verb)
exculpate
grouse
glib
molt
16. Infertile worn out weak
enzyme
sanguine
effete
defer
17. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
contentious
audacious
scent
vivacious
18. To praise highly
vanquish
divulge
assail
extol
19. Neat formal
servile
fallacious
prim
parley
20. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
frantic
palpability
foster
ruddy
21. That cannot be permeated
impermeable
tortuous
blase
umbrage
22. To gather and save to store up
garner
duplicity
alcove
heterogeneous
23. Pompous self important
fringe
salutary
consequential
waffle
24. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
expostulate
forgery
flaunting
telltale
25. Upset the self-possession of
disconcert
complaisance
auxiliary
foil
26. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
exploit
hush
endemic
finical
27. Becoming young in nature or appearance
squalid
august
resilience
rejuvenation
28. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
quixotic
discourse
abscond
disheveled
29. Get back by payment compensate
bolster
efface
complaisance
redeem
30. Bombastic
taunt
torment
fustian
vehemence
31. Make known something secret
plunge
imperturbable
divulge
acarpous
32. Measure hoe heavy something is
concord
multifarious
weigh
recompense
33. State or put forward as a necessary condition
vehemence
stipulate
disproof
palpability
34. Split crack dissension
rift
sash
rapacious
abeyance
35. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
garner
reminiscent
hypocrisy
cant
36. Causing no harm
innocuous
perish
inadvertent
nonchalant
37. Containing warning
glut
admonitory
presentiment
introspection
38. Real rightly named
grievous
penurious
veritable
pyre
39. Proud superior manner of behaviour
arrogance
penurious
savant
bandy
40. Discourage hinder
extralegal
pyre
quirk
deter
41. To great to be described in words
immutable
raffish
ineffable
turpitude
42. Opposing progress
forage
espouse
mulct
reactionary
43. Likely to come or happen soon
slake
resilience
imminent
apprise
44. Fix take up secure metal pin
fervor
canvass
rivet
perspicacity
45. Treat with contempt
wean
stride
fission
snub
46. Flow in drops
insipid
trickle
vigilance
forge
47. A beginner
venal
tyro
florid
balk
48. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
maudlin
vilify
illicit
pious
49. Agreeably pungent stimulating
brittle
piquant
stymie
quail
50. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
surcharge
levee
aberration