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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. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
negligent
provident
feckless
odious
2. Urgent essential
sheath
imperative
deposition
complaisance
3. Threats to compel somebody
duress
concoct
patron
turbulence
4. A beginner
pith
ferment
tyro
heterogeneous
5. Protest against express disapproval of
forbear
deprecate
punctilious
squat
6. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
foible
rift
macerate
lien
7. Disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
nonplused
turpitude
exoneration
fulsome
8. Act of preaching
torque
luculent
clamor
homiletics
9. Contempt dislike aversion
impiety
forbearance
incursion
odium
10. Catch sight of see something in the distance
descry
effrontery
blatant
apprise
11. Of the same period coexisting
nostrum
adulteration
coeval
froward
12. Make unfair selection from facts
froward
swerve
holster
garble
13. Fond of in the habit of fighting
revere
pugnacious
jejune
ossify
14. Causing a feeling of disgust
repulsive
exculpate
conspicuous
palliate
15. Quick judging and understanding
benevolence
perspicacity
acclaimed
succumb
16. Unresisting submissive
resigned
poignant
concur
slack
17. Artificial obstacle built across a river
refractory
hypocrisy
barrage
esoteric
18. Rich and deep plump and round
rotund
sinuous
deter
gourmand
19. Causing no harm
innocuous
console
resort
ale
20. Chains for the hands or feet
flop
undulate
inveigh
manacle
21. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
abet
sever
trite
emote
22. Come to grips/settle conclusively
timid
clinch
nascent
hoax
23. Direct opposing
antithetical
machination
labyrinthine
plumb
24. To be involved
torque
sidestep
implicate
obviate
25. Stir up rouse
hallow
mischievous
incite
sermon
26. Be faithful to endure
aver
offhand
obtain
abide
27. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
spurious
obtrusive
dereliction
apprise
28. Hinder get in the way of
dolt
impediment
hospitable
impede
29. Roughness of manner or of surface
pest
evasive
vagary
asperity
30. Hot enough to boil
scalding
moderation
boorish
flamboyant
31. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
dwarf
resilience
beatify
rebuff
32. A complex ornate design
falter
palate
arabesque
commemorate
33. Furiously angry - enraged
cordial
slate
feud
livid
34. Cast or fashion anew
prudish
recast
froward
truce
35. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
recuperate
buoyant
enmity
finicky
36. Odious (of crime)
extricable
flimsy
heinous
coruscate
37. Bunch of threads
servile
tassel
specious
refractory
38. One who turns towards himself
ardor
preponderance
introvert
sundry
39. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
entangle
terse
myriad
jabber
40. Be enough
reticence
suffice
resuscitation
perch
41. Make shorter then was planned
curtail
cloture
evoke
august
42. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
itinerate
complaisance
plethora
lachrymose
43. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
offhand
ignominious
lucubrate
Conduce
44. Weariness tiredness
sanguine
lassitude
placate
peripatetic
45. Still in existence
suffice
extant
contentious
intransigence
46. Compel to force to make obedient
obdurate
excoriation
amortize
coerce
47. Have deep respect for
dereliction
extralegal
purvey
revere
48. Person of great learning
connoisseur
patron
savant
inadvertent
49. Scarcity a lacking of
impetuous
yeoman
paucity
flax
50. Voracious devouring
decry
edacious
inculcate
plead