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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Person who tells anecdotes
indulge
garrulous
raconteur
trenchant
2. Show off complacently
flaunting
stickler
slack
bogus
3. Admit; declare openly
dwarf
plaintive
avow
sedulous
4. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
rivet
suffice
prodigal
ensconce
5. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
emote
indefatigability
stymie
sophistry
6. Commanding haughty arrogant
fission
holster
floe
imperious
7. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
tawdry
coy
lull
cravat
8. Brave -behaves well with women
gallant
obsequious
indefatigability
bequest
9. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
impede
disingenuous
sagacious
fatuous
10. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
gourmand
germane
subsume
chastisement
11. Suppressed - kept back
severance
neophyte
stifled
assail
12. Worthless outside part of anything
husk
mulct
refractory
credulous
13. Physical beauty
concoct
insinuate
ignoble
pulchritude
14. Too great a readiness to believe things
credulity
alcove
august
succumb
15. Not new
hospitable
ineptitude
trite
nascent
16. Asking humbly beseeching
fustian
suppliant
flak
loquacious
17. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
impair
sanguine
incongruous
vindictive
18. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
deviance
blase
debacle
incongruous
19. A supporting bar
strut
prolix
expostulate
fixate
20. Supply to much fill to excess
pedestrian
grouse
desuetude
glut
21. Spirit vigor enthusiasm
verve
erratic
inferno
pique
22. Punishing
froward
punitive
diaphanous
sequence
23. Plunder (especially in war)
pillage
incipient
prevaricate
eulogy
24. Proud superior manner of behaviour
console
corroboration
arrogance
sobriety
25. Truth
veracity
nebulous
preponderance
sobriety
26. Draw out
precepts
elicit
abscond
slate
27. Great flood heavy rush of water
deluge
ebullience
lionize
fledged
28. Make a humble petition to
impede
preen
supplicate
profane
29. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
hallow
probity
ensconce
plod
30. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
empirical
facetious
pious
guile
31. Give comfort or sympathy to
console
weigh
treacherous
profligacy
32. Anger
hospitable
convoke
ire
figurehead
33. Having a toothed edge
obviate
jagged
chastened
serrated
34. Rich and deep plump and round
deprecate
exscind
squander
rotund
35. Person dishonestly claiming to something
quack
calumny
equipoise
splice
36. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
disallow
ostracism
mulct
hoi
37. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
enmity
contumacious
encomium
mulct
38. Customers
covetous
clientele
foil
scabbard
39. Crouch shrink back
august
cower
concord
pitfall
40. Smell (especially pleasant)
cursory
scent
eloquence
petrified
41. Worry irritation wear away
fret
truculence
punitive
precepts
42. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
portent
pluck
canvass
effete
43. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
rebus
forbear
thwart
bogus
44. Dishes made of baked clay
blandishment
verisimilitude
coruscate
earthenware
45. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
bilge
macerate
fetter
heretic
46. Deification glorification to godliness
uncouth
auspicious
phlegmatic
apotheosis
47. Furiously angry - enraged
fervor
livid
supercilious
deter
48. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
striated
surfeit
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
somersault
49. Eager; greedy
balk
avid
vitriolic
jabber
50. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
ardor
salutary
benign
divulge