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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. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
sodden
dilate
sanguine
machination
2. That cannot be rubbed out
harbinger
succor
indelible
forbear
3. Coming back to consciousness
jejune
sequence
resuscitation
profundity
4. Without taste or flavor
savant
lament
insipid
extant
5. Certain inevitable
moderation
molt
taciturn
ineluctable
6. Fix take up secure metal pin
shallow
castigate
cornucopia
rivet
7. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
laudatory
gust
revere
torque
8. Very great number
supercilious
prim
myriad
hubris
9. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
stride
evoke
scalding
inveigh
10. With attack violently
prodigious
assail
manacle
froward
11. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
collusion
diffidence
ebullient
ire
12. Formidable causing fear
redoubtable
dissent
shrewd
dwarf
13. Devious/not straightforward
froward
emaciate
tortuous
turbulence
14. Trivial poorly constructed verse
doggerel
recitals
mite
deferential
15. Sentence within another one something separated
sobriquet
ebullience
tautology
parenthesis
16. Easy-going trifle
deviance
malign
impediment
unencumbered
17. Liking to give hospitality
predilection
coruscate
hospitable
jabber
18. Be out of view ready to attack
philistine
lurk
temperance
voluble
19. Health of mind soundness of judgment
benefactor
rivet
sanity
loll
20. Uncommunicativeness
expurgate
engrave
mite
reticence
21. Contempt dislike aversion
desiccant
veracity
desultory
odium
22. Noisy loud
petulant
obstreperous
denouement
resuscitation
23. Corrosive; sarcastic
vitriolic
permeate
salutary
vacillation
24. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
detumescence
picaresque
renovate
lurk
25. To beg to get by begging
floe
froward
picaresque
cadge
26. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
sagacious
irrevocable
pedestrian
27. Stupid fellow
quail
finical
dolt
chastisement
28. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
levity
harbinger
slur
amortize
29. Dejected
lustrous
portent
rueful
libel
30. Additional strengthening evidence
restive
unencumbered
lucubrate
corroboration
31. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
graze
temperate
slake
contentious
32. Incapable of being discovered or understood
poignant
discern
inscrutable
blandness
33. Astute showing sound judgement
hubris
shrewd
onerous
defalcate
34. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
umbrage
abet
jibe
pileous
35. Tactless clumsy
ascend
connotation
maladroit
consternation
36. Ridicule mockery deriding
pious
duress
derision
proclivity
37. Strong convincing
perjury
cogent
serrated
credulity
38. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
perjury
duplicity
malapropism
benign
39. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
mollify
clot
felicitous
imperative
40. Person who loves wealth and spends little
suffice
condense
miser
insurrection
41. Satisfy fully
satiate
precarious
stolid
asterisk
42. Hot enough to boil
disdain
scalding
incursion
coddle
43. Like a rock hard stony
odor
ruffian
tautology
petrous
44. Speak distinctly connect by joints
articulate
visceral
exorbitant
ale
45. Uncertain risky dangerous
duress
erratic
stygian
precarious
46. Suppress subdue
hoodwink
perspicacity
quell
fragile
47. Improve make better
abate
benevolence
macerate
ameliorate
48. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
apostate
ensconce
forswear
sober
49. Be faithful to endure
endorse
equivocal
disparate
abide
50. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
sash
grandiloquent
salutary
pugnacious