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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Insubstantial flimsy weak
sheath
contentious
sting
tenuous
2. Obtain by threats violence
meticulous
fracas
fetid
extort
3. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
frugal
scabbard
eclat
yeoman
4. Fall plunge steeply
harangue
yeoman
plummet
ruffian
5. State of growing vigorously being full of life
levee
pervade
exuberance
exploit
6. Causing a feeling of disgust
abjure
beatify
defiance
repulsive
7. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
platitude
nebulous
paean
diatribe
8. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
harangue
conspicuous
aloof
insinuate
9. Pedant authority on a subject
cohort
impugned
pundit
recluse
10. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
resilience
resigned
strive
11. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
cloture
bogus
supercilious
supplicate
12. Showing earnest feeling
fervid
tadpole
garrulous
elicit
13. Prohibit forbid
pinch
interdict
catalyst
nascent
14. Beat hard
belabor
affinity
attenuate
fluster
15. Transparent easy to understand
pellucid
deluge
petrify
dulcet
16. To speak harmful untruths about someone
apotheosis
malign
supersede
squat
17. Undress
fawn
pernicious
terse
disrobe
18. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
ubiquitous
forbearance
heretic
bask
19. Easily understood lucid clear
castigation
contemn
submerge
luculent
20. Lacking strength walking unevenly
boisterous
rejuvenation
limp
inasmuch
21. Draw together unite firmly
knit
elicit
deprecate
reticent
22. Make tight or smaller
constrict
fluster
repulsive
sequence
23. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
sheath
exscind
renovate
supercilious
24. Tending to evade
retrograde
roll
palpability
evasive
25. Unharmed unhurt
inveterate
ascetic
unscathed
luculent
26. Say or do again several times
floe
reiterate
recast
expiation
27. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
testiness
morbid
wince
nibble
28. Trifling/worthless
exhaustive
nugatory
discern
suffice
29. As an installment
interim
strut
heinous
flak
30. Show off complacently
synopsis
flaunting
spear
taunt
31. Happening from time to time
apropos
arduous
recuperate
sporadic
32. Waste away through sorrow or illness
pine
effete
wince
permeate
33. Person guilty of murder
savant
deprave
felon
lugubrious
34. One who hates women/females
vigilant
misogynist
expatiate
inscrutable
35. Brief
transitory
hoodwink
petrify
philistine
36. A quack remedy an untested cure
peregrination
nostrum
alleviate
censure
37. Too strong to be defeated
invincible
arabesque
cower
beguile
38. An outcast a rejected and despised person
ensign
pariah
avid
opaqueness
39. Large piece of cloth
poncho
supine
petrify
tangential
40. Bad-tempered person
cogitate
rejuvenation
officious
churl
41. Enthusiasm
portent
sobriety
ardor
balk
42. Becoming rotten
quotidian
effluvia
putrefaction
inscrutable
43. Free giving generosity
redeem
auspicious
liberality
impassive
44. Threatening
ominous
salacious
luminary
agog
45. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
abscond
retrospective
conjoin
divergence
46. That gives warning or information
puissance
alleviate
telltale
aplomb
47. Address a court of law as an advocate
sidestep
soot
plead
obloquy
48. Stone used for sharpening tools
desuetude
hone
inimitable
coalescing
49. To hate to detest
sting
recast
abhor
woo
50. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
machination
aversion
inveterate
verve