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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. Short piece of humorous writing
ostentation
pervade
skit
partisan
2. Punishment
obfuscate
chastisement
inferno
finesse
3. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
feral
reticent
vehemence
hypocrisy
4. Artificial obstacle built across a river
ponderous
impugned
acarpous
barrage
5. Rash indiscreet
tractable
antidote
impudent
duress
6. Real rightly named
resort
snub
veritable
sullied
7. Continue doing something without resting
astute
defiance
presumption
plod
8. Made of brass
impudent
brazen
sluggard
nugatory
9. Treat with care and tenderness
mendacity
discomfit
coddle
stymie
10. Sad gloomy miserable
finesse
cajole
dismal
smolder
11. Swallow up
asterisk
engulf
onerous
vain
12. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
flak
adulteration
venal
untoward
13. Weaken deprive of strength attenuate
specious
forestall
hauteur
enervate
14. Opening broken place breaking
impromptu
breach
morose
sophomoric
15. Without previous thought or preparation
feud
perfidious
extempore
parley
16. Extremely pleasing to taste
minatory
aloof
ambrosial
tenuous
17. Without preparation
impromptu
swerve
broach
parsimonious
18. Easily done
discern
spurn
facile
conspicuous
19. Little known abstruse
endemic
heterogeneous
recondite
slack
20. Catalyst
recant
sublime
enzyme
enmity
21. Having a desire to revenge
striated
perjury
affable
vindictive
22. Rising of people to open resistance to
mince
incipient
assail
insurrection
23. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
ensconce
turgid
dissemble
supine
24. Statement that damages reputation
ostensible
excoriation
highbrow
libel
25. Make worse irritate
aggravate
ford
meretricious
rabble
26. Persevering
sedulous
cadge
dearth
liberality
27. Way out exit
limp
libel
egress
disdain
28. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
entice
abate
ferret
nibble
29. Process of burning
combustion
impromptu
implosion
gist
30. To clear from a charge of guilt
surcharge
mellifluous
exculpate
woo
31. Cheerful confident optimistic
nostrum
abet
sanguine
crease
32. Easily broken
heed
orison
brittle
evoke
33. Counterbalance
conciliatory
countervail
gregarious
brass
34. A trick
skit
blandness
wile
tangential
35. Taste flavor something
slur
heretic
savor
effrontery
36. Hence - awkward
crass
gauche
disparate
censure
37. Winding undulating serpentine
morose
encomium
sinuous
ensconce
38. Existing in a wild or untamed state
wag
fret
regale
feral
39. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
dainty
fustian
jagged
pedestrian
40. Infertile worn out weak
substantiation
egress
effete
stanch
41. Renounce disallow repudiate
dearth
brass
hew
forswear
42. Protest against express disapproval of
inveigh
deprecate
fulmination
accolade
43. Loyalty accuracy
fidelity
slate
incumbents
belligerent
44. Make payment to reward punish
recompense
ambidextrous
ail
deplete
45. Helping supporting
auxiliary
euphoria
impassive
profuse
46. Boldness brashness intrepidness
arboreal
temerity
punctilious
egress
47. Try to deceive by equivocal language
expiation
equivocate
idolatry
prolix
48. Receding
guile
retrograde
salubrious
snub
49. Complex
palpitate
calisthenics
involute
bigot
50. Celebrated famous
revere
renowned
sere
discountenance