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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. Frugal looking to the future
ineluctable
emote
provident
importune
2. Suggest something in the past
welter
irrevocable
reminiscent
flamboyant
3. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
nexus
dissent
forestall
interdict
4. Self-controlled
precursory
savor
sober
dud
5. Devious/not straightforward
plummet
sophomoric
tortuous
aver
6. Crouch shrink back
cower
sporadic
epicurean
predilection
7. Bending twisting
lithe
deferential
turgid
drowsiness
8. Deceit cunning
fixate
belabor
guile
vehemence
9. Compel to force to make obedient
riddle
wend
coerce
minatory
10. Discover and bring to light
limp
cogitate
unearth
petrified
11. Intimidate make fearful
efface
daunt
adorn
deluge
12. Appearing TRUE or real
verisimilitude
covetous
conspicuous
ascribe
13. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
dud
bedizen
resilience
verdant
14. Alarm excited state of mind
stentorian
trepidation
apartheid
frenetic
15. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
fleet
maudlin
suffocate
fecund
16. Hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
congeal
procrastination
obdurate
reticence
17. Sound in judgment wise
taciturn
imbroglio
judicious
auxiliary
18. Of great importance (others depend on it)
fleet
pivotal
shallow
veritable
19. Worked out with much care in great detail
elaborate
morbid
rant
coeval
20. Without use result conceited
temperate
bask
burgeon
vain
21. State of doubt or perplexity
substantiation
pique
quandary
regale
22. Break go beyond (a limit)
fatuous
deprave
tamper
transgress
23. Parody/imitation
macabre
travesty
spear
finical
24. Ending expiring
malleable
loll
commodious
expiation
25. Cheerful casual carefree
plod
abut
inveterate
blithe
26. Diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
forswear
entangle
minatory
morbid
27. Strong energetic
engulf
cumbersome
vigorous
fixate
28. Take the place of
crass
supersede
flimsy
succumb
29. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
reticence
amortize
boggle
boisterous
30. Extreme astounding
sublime
alloy
ascetic
voluble
31. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
tepid
balk
discountenance
stentorian
32. Quality of being unskillful
loll
sanguine
ineptitude
commuter
33. Fix firmly by repetition
dereliction
inculcate
torpid
euthanasia
34. Make hard and without feeling
sere
arboreal
covert
ineluctable
35. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
flax
barrage
glimmer
agile
36. Take up a high position
preternatural
perch
perfunctory
equivocate
37. Hot enough to boil
summarily
disallow
scalding
chary
38. To beg to get by begging
mince
asperity
cadge
subpoena
39. Eager and cheerful readiness
ominous
sordid
graze
alacrity
40. Arrogance
coalescing
intrepid
interdict
presumption
41. To entangle the state of affairs
labyrinthine
ubiquitous
paean
bolster
42. Not paying proper attention
rebuff
pugnacious
inadvertent
imperviousness
43. Soothe pacify calm
skiff
facile
placate
rescind
44. Welcomed with shouts and approval
acclaimed
recitals
chauvinist
predominate
45. Coming into existence emerging
clientele
pry
divergence
nascent
46. Pleasing in appearance attractive
castigate
personable
suffocate
dissolution
47. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
euphoria
boisterous
extirpate
suppliant
48. Menacing threatening
flout
incite
taciturn
minatory
49. Magnificent
palatial
harangue
skiff
aplomb
50. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
beguile
pith
topple
heed