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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. Welcomed with shouts and approval
impassive
striated
slake
acclaimed
2. Person dishonestly claiming to something
purvey
glut
quack
reiterate
3. Without preparation or forethought
offhand
esoteric
stint
fluke
4. Hinder get in the way of
impede
severance
savant
combustion
5. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
stigma
fission
imperturbable
drone
6. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
jabber
punctilious
rave
imbroglio
7. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
rebuff
ail
nexus
discountenance
8. Becoming rotten
auxiliary
invective
putrefaction
superfluous
9. Liking to give hospitality
ambivalent
crush
hospitable
heed
10. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
gouge
prevalent
curriculum
apprehensive
11. Severe punishment
noxious
castigation
seminal
shrewd
12. Gibe make fun of
seminal
regicide
jibe
intrepid
13. Taken away power (to think feel act)
petrified
dormant
implicate
boisterous
14. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
cower
paucity
preen
aplomb
15. Provide supply
precepts
purvey
epistle
elicit
16. Strong dislike
stride
recondite
affable
animosity
17. Food for horses and cattle
savor
forage
extinguish
superimpose
18. Doubtful uncertain
profane
spurn
warmonger
ambiguous
19. Being uncertain hesitating
obstreperous
vacillation
deter
obtuse
20. Regular customer person who gives support
inscrutable
derision
volatile
patron
21. Following; attendants
odium
retinue
opaqueness
adamant
22. Make beautiful
heresy
vanquish
embellish
expedient
23. Lack of seriousness
subpoena
implicate
levity
encumbrance
24. Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
machination
colander
diffidence
prodigal
25. Bring into harmony
attune
perfunctory
gaucherie
impecunious
26. To scorn or despise
contemn
uncouth
rancorous
idyll
27. Hot enough to boil
gust
proclivity
froward
scalding
28. Truth
moderation
intransigence
ubiquitous
veracity
29. A piece of broken pottery
torque
shard
guile
gregarious
30. Person much smaller the usual size
squander
entice
dwarf
ramify
31. Slander
uncouth
pristine
conciliatory
aspersion
32. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
graze
revere
bewilder
trudge
33. Put into difficulties
reconcile
proclivity
perfunctory
entangle
34. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
cogent
perjury
atonement
spear
35. Treat as a famous person
lionize
odium
gush
stygian
36. Easily understood lucid clear
penurious
irate
luculent
turpitude
37. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
propitiatory
contrite
fecund
convoluted
38. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
turgid
quack
preclude
consummate
39. Quick hurried
cumbersome
imperturbable
cursory
coagulation
40. Have more power than others
entice
edify
predominate
highbrow
41. Say or do again several times
cabal
reiterate
enunciate
pundit
42. Take the place of
supersede
lope
attenuate
doggerel
43. Vexation
chagrin
muffler
abstruse
conceal
44. Hence dark gloomy
exscind
stygian
inquest
irksome
45. Parody/imitation
deter
desiccant
travesty
susceptibility
46. (of eyes) dull
abacus
lackluster
recondite
umbrage
47. Elation state of pleasant excitement
sober
forbearance
cant
euphoria
48. That can be freed
sawdust
pliant
introspection
extricable
49. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
credulous
ferocity
picaresque
tamper
50. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
concoct
derivative
asterisk
ferocity