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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. Person who has given help
desultory
coerce
benefactor
husk
2. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
feud
dissemble
accolade
meretricious
3. Check hinder
retard
sordid
abeyance
fetter
4. A possession
finical
disencumber
scent
cavalcade
5. Take the place of
supersede
exigency
discourse
nascent
6. Approval
delineate
tangential
crush
approbation
7. Too tired
recreancy
timorous
crass
fagged
8. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
disingenuous
inveterate
antithetical
ascetic
9. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
scurvy
lionize
balk
condense
10. Well-suited; quick-witted
odious
apt
savant
goad
11. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
disencumber
hew
finical
ascertain
12. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
roll
turpitude
subdue
bedizen
13. To complain
verisimilitude
dupe
garrulous
grumble
14. Refuse to believe
discredit
trenchant
predominate
multifarious
15. Plundering
desuetude
depredation
cordial
lucubrate
16. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
divulge
bandy
teetotal
foible
17. Strong energetic
molt
inept
stray
vigorous
18. Proof to the contrary
skiff
loquacious
disproof
astringent
19. Eager and cheerful readiness
alacrity
husk
effrontery
chagrin
20. Bitter and violent attack in words
diatribe
iconoclast
partisan
offhand
21. Perfect/make perfect/complete
moribund
ferret
consummate
vigorous
22. Over look at with selfish delight
puissance
perjury
quotidian
gloat
23. Various miscellaneous separate
embellish
ire
sundry
feud
24. Large pile of wood for burning
quail
pyre
squander
ponderous
25. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
doggerel
descry
denigrate
lien
26. Be admitted enter a university as a student
sketchy
bolster
matriculation
castigate
27. Finical
opaqueness
purvey
finicky
dearth
28. Sad gloomy miserable
dupe
dismal
chagrin
shun
29. Official duties
ail
ostentation
incumbents
inundate
30. Discover and bring to light
terse
derogatory
sash
unearth
31. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
sanction
fleet
ebullient
connote
32. To polish rub to a shine
obstreperous
burnish
mellifluous
enzyme
33. Rub or wipe out - obliterate
distrait
tadpole
efface
ale
34. Trace or sign
articulate
hypocrisy
steeply
vestige
35. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
involute
centurion
sere
perjury
36. Easy and painless death
euthanasia
temperate
calipers
encapsulate
37. Dishonesty
aversion
ire
mendacity
vain
38. Interfere with
diffidence
tout
imbroglio
tamper
39. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
ascribe
tenacity
bask
40. Blunt/stupid
impervious
obtuse
nonplused
plea
41. Draw together unite firmly
doleful
overweening
dwarf
knit
42. Lessen the severity of
gregarious
palliate
endeavor
inchoate
43. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
ruddy
reticent
pique
inveigh
44. A song of grief or lamentation
somersault
morose
yeoman
dirge
45. Make unfair selection from facts
garble
facetious
raconteur
molt
46. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
hubris
drone
fragile
conciliatory
47. Puzzling person or thing
allegiance
riddle
consternation
congeal
48. Violent cruel man
supersede
vex
ruffian
vitiate
49. Lacking strength walking unevenly
bask
philistine
limp
stride
50. Omen sign
limn
auspicious
augury
savant