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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. To scorn or despise
subpoena
roll
ascribe
contemn
2. Undress
encapsulate
disrobe
coda
immutable
3. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
subpoena
proclivity
prudish
secular
4. Stone used for sharpening tools
malinger
stipulate
hone
imperviousness
5. Attractive on the surface but of little value
ire
meretricious
lachrymose
dote
6. Discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
portent
auspicious
bandy
sluggard
7. Having plenty of space for what is needed
mien
commodious
resort
thwart
8. Request
mendacious
irresolute
plea
macabre
9. Not soled with hole
luculent
hollow
ominous
guile
10. Sad gloomy miserable
gorge
dismal
phlegmatic
suppliant
11. Intended to instruct
patron
didactic
poignant
censure
12. Be destroyed decay
diaphanous
demur
perish
snub
13. Punishment
fallacious
plaintive
chastisement
flinch
14. Blocked up
occluded
mettle
countervail
agile
15. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
deplete
indefatigability
blandishment
portent
16. Rising of people to open resistance to
burgeon
insurrection
eddy
shallow
17. Border on
abut
ensign
vitriolic
facile
18. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
bilge
ale
inchoate
pulchritude
19. Having both of two contrary meanings
malinger
ambivalent
maul
sponge
20. Of great importance (others depend on it)
terse
plea
resuscitation
pivotal
21. A long passionate speech
loll
harangue
vacuity
umbrage
22. Physical of or for the body
auxiliary
portent
hirsute
corporeal
23. Admit; declare openly
enmity
avow
ardor
alacrity
24. Poverty
infuse
abut
centurion
indigence
25. Savage cruelty
manacle
arduous
ferocity
fagged
26. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
felicitous
apostate
testiness
snub
27. Strong dislike
heretic
animosity
talon
quotidian
28. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
inveigh
flinch
disingenuous
piquant
29. Finical
transitory
counterfeit
finicky
middling
30. Speak distinctly connect by joints
rescind
articulate
hermetic
perfidious
31. Bitter and violent attack in words
commuter
diatribe
nonplused
impervious
32. Hell
dwarf
berate
finesse
inferno
33. Join (two ends)
punctilious
philistine
admonitory
splice
34. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
platitude
qualm
superfluous
enigma
35. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
solvent
rubicund
ascertain
pristine
36. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
aspersion
negligent
ford
ascribe
37. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
equipoise
fulsome
presumption
vagary
38. Catch sight of see something in the distance
visceral
descry
conciliatory
maladroit
39. Catalyst
lien
droll
enzyme
sinuous
40. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
vanquish
impute
incongruous
caustic
41. Irritable easily angered
refulgent
irascible
insensible
incite
42. Rough awkward
uncouth
feckless
latent
nexus
43. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
ostracism
glib
incessant
plead
44. Abundant supply
importune
cornucopia
prim
impermeable
45. Quality of endurance or courage
cryptic
flamboyant
mettle
caustic
46. Unfortunate inconvenient
untoward
abide
undulate
ambivalent
47. Inclination
ale
imperious
pundit
proclivity
48. Made of brass
brazen
profane
imperative
truce
49. Traveling about wandering
flamboyant
aplomb
august
peregrination
50. Coming together and uniting into one substance
exploit
epiphany
coalescing
cadge