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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. Showing self-control
procrastination
temperate
extralegal
idolatry
2. Taking too little care
impede
snub
negligent
resigned
3. Asking humbly beseeching
suppliant
churl
flimsy
avid
4. Put into difficulties
entangle
stigma
emote
forswear
5. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
levity
bedizen
uncouth
perspicacity
6. Relevant pertinent to
conundrum
bequest
germane
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
7. Stone used for sharpening tools
consummate
soggy
riddle
hone
8. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
inimical
grouse
feckless
luminary
9. Not easily discouraged or subdued
quotidian
evince
indomitable
pellucid
10. Forcefulness
discern
susceptibility
vehemence
shrewd
11. Causing tears tearful
prosaic
lachrymose
belligerent
volubility
12. Bring into harmony
attune
bedizen
connoisseur
cryptic
13. Able to float light-hearted
imperviousness
viscous
prodigious
buoyant
14. Hairy shaggy
middling
reticent
sluggard
hirsute
15. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
squander
lien
petulant
recreancy
16. Hot enough to boil
evoke
restive
eulogy
scalding
17. Treat with contempt
taunt
attenuate
snub
congeal
18. To venture
interdict
foray
poignant
commodious
19. Distracted violently upset in mind
negligent
distraught
mettlesome
inadvertent
20. Challenged to be doubted
recant
flout
impugned
trifling
21. A generator something that produces electric current
render
privation
wile
dynamo
22. Becoming rotten
veneer
lachrymose
putrefaction
euthanasia
23. Keep the memory of
commemorate
implosion
waffle
propitious
24. Grow forth send out buds
burgeon
depredation
petulant
valiant
25. Corrected punished
goad
chastened
antithetical
ascribe
26. Uncompromising
abysmal
intransigent
ferocity
inveterate
27. Weak/unsteady light
apt
discreet
glimmer
credulous
28. Sharpness stinging quality
gallant
frugal
rumple
pungency
29. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
crush
paucity
defalcate
secular
30. Opposing progress
privation
reactionary
maudlin
malinger
31. Trifling/worthless
swerve
nugatory
narcissism
lurk
32. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
poncho
obtrusive
ferment
obtuse
33. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
stygian
drone
crease
conceal
34. Tactless clumsy
narcissism
maladroit
pyre
ulterior
35. Spend wastefully
plea
connoisseur
squander
sophistry
36. Add beauty; decorate
adorn
ulterior
truce
incite
37. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
pitfall
insinuate
quixotic
perilous
38. Suffer the loss of something
coagulation
coalescing
turpitude
forfeit
39. Ridicule mockery deriding
obfuscate
derision
daunt
resort
40. Elation state of pleasant excitement
tenuous
epithet
euphoria
heinous
41. Stir up excite
neophyte
enzyme
insularity
emote
42. A repetition a redundancy
steeply
ale
tautology
prudence
43. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
cling
disencumber
reprobate
impugned
44. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
lavish
gaucherie
vestige
nibble
45. Without taste or flavor
lugubrious
insipid
alacrity
enervate
46. Split crack dissension
peripatetic
hospitable
rift
ecumenical
47. Border on
cohort
shrill
discreet
abut
48. Paint with dots
alleviate
correlate
stipple
apprehensive
49. Tiny bits of wood
fetid
saturnine
coax
sawdust
50. Appropriate to the situation apt
apropos
imperviousness
mollify
gouge