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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. Learned scholarly
pellucid
regicide
arrogance
erudite
2. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
luminary
salutary
credulity
aloof
3. Praise approval
accolade
abhor
voluble
irrevocable
4. Living in societies liking the company
ascetic
gregarious
pique
rejuvenation
5. Promise or swear to give up
middling
deter
abjure
venal
6. Weak/unsteady light
shun
holster
brass
glimmer
7. Make calmer or quieter
discrete
pusillanimous
mollify
mettlesome
8. Ending expiring
expiation
inundate
hew
reiterate
9. Frantic frenzied
refractory
frenetic
piquant
stipple
10. Punishment
punctilious
fetter
spurn
chastisement
11. Sentence within another one something separated
bigot
savor
coddle
parenthesis
12. Large pile of wood for burning
pyre
surfeit
foppish
accretion
13. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
penurious
vacillation
austere
judicious
14. Substance become excited
blithe
resilience
sumptuous
ferment
15. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
premature
palpitate
impervious
cravat
16. Make a lower bid then somebody else
underbid
lachrymose
cravat
boggle
17. End (a debt) by setting aside money
calisthenics
amortize
dormant
turquoise
18. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
ingest
itinerate
acumen
excoriation
19. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
fulmination
overhaul
knit
ferment
20. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
variegate
inept
cognizant
waffle
21. Of the power of forming a solution
libertine
superimpose
solvent
plumb
22. Gather facts in small quantities
mite
mendacious
glean
ascribe
23. Put something on the top
pest
philistine
rapacious
superimpose
24. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
perfunctory
stray
enthral
cravat
25. Hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
maladroit
obdurate
abscond
mince
26. Merry person
wag
vestige
warmonger
lament
27. Boldness impudence arrogance
effrontery
dismal
acarpous
rapacious
28. Scold sharply
discourse
berate
hollow
decry
29. Expressing or giving praise
laudatory
ensign
highbrow
subdue
30. Repulsive hateful
odious
flak
ferment
bereft
31. Small sin small weakness in one's character
peccadillo
chauvinist
amalgamate
mesmerize
32. Make morally bad corrupt
profuse
deprave
occluded
erratic
33. Strong dislike
animosity
lumber
turbid
aplomb
34. Shyness
lustrous
diffidence
rapacious
disseminate
35. Song of praise or triumph
pillage
coax
chisel
paean
36. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
fission
sheath
sententious
quirk
37. Secret with a hidden meaning
resilience
encumbrance
abide
cryptic
38. Receding
extol
retrograde
incumbents
specious
39. Substance that shrinks
elaborate
aberration
gnaw
astringent
40. Easily broken
brook
brittle
perspicacity
lackluster
41. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
penury
preen
combustion
denigrate
42. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
loll
prodigious
plethora
43. Insincere talk/jargon
sullied
inveigh
decree
cant
44. Bitter protest
forbear
fulmination
exoneration
trickle
45. Bad-tempered person
disrobe
graze
mendacious
curmudgeon
46. Make worse irritate
scabbard
timorous
aggravate
tractable
47. Frame with balls for calculating
abacus
opprobrious
vanquish
diffidence
48. Giving up control authority
recompense
pungency
impudent
abdication
49. One who turns towards himself
vitriolic
entangle
pedantic
introvert
50. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
bilge
gorge
epicurean
chary