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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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 chastise correct by punishing
deter
animosity
castigate
legacy
2. To entangle the state of affairs
sobriquet
exploit
idolatry
labyrinthine
3. To be involved
fulsome
implicate
tepid
maudlin
4. Brutal racial discrimination
poignant
castigate
apartheid
refine
5. Increasing the number spreading extending
propinquity
propagation
drone
enervate
6. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
sober
divestiture
ford
breach
7. Having both of two contrary meanings
ambivalent
propitiatory
eschew
recant
8. Succession connected line of
abysmal
impervious
sequence
admonitory
9. Disguised
idyll
covert
subsume
stigmatize
10. Eager; greedy
avid
eddy
multifarious
congeal
11. Defying imitation unmatchable
malevolence
rejuvenation
peremptory
inimitable
12. Still in existence
pine
manacle
extant
quotidian
13. A generator something that produces electric current
attenuate
calumny
dynamo
cravat
14. Helping supporting
repine
propinquity
auxiliary
aggravate
15. Show off complacently
commuter
obstreperous
dissolution
flaunting
16. Exercises to develop strong bodies
lustrous
pugnacious
shrewd
calisthenics
17. Draw together unite firmly
knit
foment
overweening
inquest
18. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
gullible
involute
intransigence
feint
19. Brave
testiness
valorous
uncouth
canvass
20. Jesting
hospitable
droll
stride
ignominious
21. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
deferential
encomium
covert
cogitate
22. Sound in judgment wise
brash
verdant
panegyric
judicious
23. Roughness of manner or of surface
ecumenical
abscond
harangue
asperity
24. Crude offensive rude
obtuse
transgress
pillage
boorish
25. Various miscellaneous separate
harangue
sundry
odium
antithetical
26. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
terse
espouse
antidote
vigorous
27. Try to avoid by sophistication
sumptuous
illicit
quibble
cabal
28. Exuberance outburst of feeling
ford
peregrination
ebullience
stipulate
29. Plundering
extinguish
depredation
disheveled
streak
30. Lasting
eclat
presentiment
enduring
nexus
31. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
bilge
verdant
resilience
foil
32. Pompous self important
consequential
sententious
quaff
ardor
33. Parody/imitation
gist
travesty
vex
superfluous
34. Insulting tending to damage
aleck
lustrous
derogatory
drawl
35. Scarcity a lacking of
paucity
lachrymose
toady
provisional
36. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
thrift
vestige
secular
transient
37. Calm and peaceful
prudish
gist
halcyon
curriculum
38. Grow forth send out buds
tortuous
burgeon
suppliant
churl
39. Irritable easily angered
chicanery
qualm
irascible
abet
40. Deep-rooted. long-established
sententious
impair
ascetic
inveterate
41. Careful/prudent
pristine
discreet
recluse
tassel
42. Majestic venerable
august
arabesque
flinch
endorse
43. To be thrifty to set limits
stint
opaqueness
resort
dangle
44. Unaware having no memory
oblivious
plethora
rave
articulate
45. Jargon slang
rubicund
trudge
argot
gnaw
46. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
valiant
impervious
quibble
accolade
47. Burden things that get on the way of
encomium
encumbrance
peremptory
aberration
48. Looking ill - not bright
wan
diaphanous
fawn
sententious
49. Living in societies liking the company
involute
gregarious
elicit
castigation
50. Formal praise eulogy
panegyric
impending
defalcate
argot