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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. Abusive language curses
engrossing
invective
resuscitation
truculence
2. Person who hates mankind
ubiquitous
lustrous
sporadic
misanthrope
3. Make quiet or calm
appease
penitent
divestiture
predilection
4. To tolerate endure
pinch
brook
voluptuous
overweening
5. Dishes made of baked clay
earthenware
plod
fluke
hirsute
6. Continue doing something without resting
succumb
plod
deprave
transient
7. Taken away power (to think feel act)
cabal
laudatory
petrified
predominate
8. Protest against express disapproval of
preponderance
dormant
bequest
deprecate
9. Get back by payment compensate
garble
salvage
redeem
cohort
10. Additional strengthening evidence
peremptory
corroboration
sophomoric
quibble
11. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
irate
gullible
lumber
perfidy
12. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
inept
profuse
halcyon
topple
13. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
indigenous
aleck
wag
14. Elegant refined in manners
incorrigibility
precepts
urbane
paradigm
15. Relevant pertinent to
macabre
toady
vituperate
germane
16. Suffer the loss of something
dirge
tepid
forfeit
caustic
17. Unaware having no memory
commodious
oblivious
endeavor
asterisk
18. Shortage
verve
nadir
hospitable
dearth
19. Truth
inadvertent
remonstrate
veracity
gourmand
20. An inexperienced person.
fledgling
conjoin
paradigm
pry
21. Cheat make a fool of
submerge
dupe
foible
dismal
22. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
philistine
deprecate
dislodge
squalid
23. Lack of seriousness
ineffable
levity
implicit
relapse
24. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
perfunctory
coalescing
foil
ossify
25. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
propinquity
candid
noisome
serration
26. Disguised
clot
propitiatory
congeal
covert
27. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
tadpole
foray
elaborate
cant
28. Effete no longer fertile worn out
acarpous
redeem
surfeit
untoward
29. Narrow-mindedness isolated
sobriquet
gauche
insularity
imperturbable
30. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
malinger
hew
provisional
pedantic
31. Slander aspersion
voluble
deplete
calumny
exscind
32. Using pompous words
negligent
edible
punitive
grandiloquent
33. Appearing TRUE or real
turbid
verisimilitude
belligerent
equilibrium
34. Make something (pain desire) less
endorse
refine
onerous
assuage
35. Sluggish dull not tight
slack
overweening
astringent
luculent
36. Surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
ostensible
hirsute
legacy
veneer
37. Pompous self important
preen
consequential
precarious
dogmatic
38. Something sharp
highbrow
decorum
sting
contentious
39. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
cower
contrite
feint
agglutinate
40. Giving facts to support (statement)
extenuate
substantiation
gauche
trickle
41. Illogical of questionable truth or merit
aggravate
pileous
chary
specious
42. An outcast a rejected and despised person
pariah
deviance
precepts
ominous
43. Yield - die
ostensible
serration
succumb
scalding
44. Direct opposing
inured
antithetical
exhaustive
riddle
45. Individually distinct
epitome
consequential
belligerent
discrete
46. Leather case for a pistol
impetuous
proscribe
stingy
holster
47. Self-controlled
sinuous
sober
reprobate
inveigh
48. The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
accretion
cabal
chagrin
entangle
49. Person who loves wealth and spends little
meticulous
miser
wile
peccadillo
50. Becoming young in nature or appearance
forswear
rejuvenation
satiate
prevalent