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Pcat Vocab
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
churl
sketchy
benign
affable
2. Interfere with
tamper
mettlesome
aseptic
equanimity
3. To remove obscenity purify censor
salacious
expurgate
penitent
ambrosial
4. Too tired
fracas
fagged
pedantic
moribund
5. Can be felt touched understood
palpability
enzyme
ingenuous
inimitable
6. Lying on the back slow to act passive
discredit
supine
suborn
wag
7. Make or become soft by soaking in water
ubiquitous
recalcitrant
bereft
macerate
8. To resist separation
truculence
vitiate
hypocrisy
cling
9. Lacking solidarity - strength
supplicate
shun
corroboration
flimsy
10. To make holy consecrate
atonement
hallow
waft
holster
11. Courageous high-spirited
calumny
fidelity
mettlesome
corporeal
12. To gather and save to store up
intrepid
garner
transgress
disencumber
13. Smell favor reputation
viscous
scalding
odor
vagary
14. Wandering
peripatetic
refine
torment
astringent
15. No longer active
aberration
extinct
enunciate
obdurate
16. Brief summary representative example a typical model
epitome
heinous
trenchant
stanch
17. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
slate
servile
tangential
preen
18. Roughness of manner or of surface
transgress
vanquish
asperity
interim
19. Show feel great sorrow
derogatory
perfidious
lament
exorbitant
20. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
grievous
ponderous
effete
heretic
21. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conceit
pyre
plethora
lithe
22. Make angry vax
provoke
burnish
lavish
corroboration
23. Causing a feeling of disgust
malleable
attenuate
repulsive
revere
24. Disguised
foster
covert
sadastic
accrue
25. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
graze
refine
perfunctory
turbid
26. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
lustrous
nebulous
noisome
snare
27. Poverty
detraction
variegate
tortuous
indigence
28. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
desultory
duress
undulate
sadastic
29. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
myriad
invincible
eddy
sophomoric
30. Scarcity a lacking of
balk
sash
entangle
paucity
31. Gloomy dark sullen morose
tractable
stygian
plead
saturnine
32. Physical of or for the body
catalyst
corporeal
scorch
puerile
33. Try to avoid by sophistication
scabbard
retrospective
quibble
dissolution
34. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
repel
peripatetic
parenthesis
transient
35. Threats to compel somebody
sting
pernicious
duress
importune
36. Compel
dissent
repel
constrain
impromptu
37. To portray depict sketch out
jagged
erratic
dolt
delineate
38. Not paying proper attention
sodden
excoriation
inadvertent
implicit
39. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
apprehensive
flak
shun
cornucopia
40. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
malapropism
telltale
froward
insensible
41. The saving of property from loss
pitfall
salvage
figurehead
hapless
42. Shameless immorality
auxiliary
profligacy
soggy
machination
43. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
indelible
finical
foray
equipoise
44. Cause produce give rise to
engender
resuscitation
detraction
temerity
45. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
retrospective
ford
foster
pry
46. Self-controlled
forge
abysmal
sober
heterogeneous
47. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
shun
waft
pliant
vituperate
48. Astute showing sound judgement
caustic
shrewd
sheath
egress
49. State of being balanced
equilibrium
coerce
stentorian
apprise
50. In the highest degree
arrant
impermeable
derivative
aversion
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