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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. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
voluptuous
gouge
levity
exhaustive
2. Well-suited; quick-witted
livid
apt
ramify
truculence
3. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
partisan
sententious
adulteration
synopsis
4. Calmness of temperament
falter
equanimity
gregarious
ulterior
5. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
pinch
precarious
luculent
misogynist
6. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
latent
tadpole
vain
asterisk
7. Liking to give hospitality
insensible
incessant
hospitable
conceit
8. Cheerful person
extrovert
substantiation
punctilious
precarious
9. Low vulgar base tawdry
fleet
raffish
fragrant
taut
10. Get to the root of
edify
denouement
plumb
jocular
11. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
aver
noxious
pedantic
molt
12. Attractive on the surface but of little value
sponge
meretricious
interdict
pernicious
13. Celebrated famous
compunction
descry
renowned
homiletics
14. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
cling
suffocate
drowsiness
commuter
15. Get back by payment compensate
brittle
spurious
redeem
assiduous
16. Approval
contrite
blandishment
approbation
doleful
17. An invocation of evil a curse
adamant
erudite
imprecation
somatic
18. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
flout
malapropism
burgeon
sedulous
19. A supporting bar
condone
strut
vitriolic
fulsome
20. Approval (by authority) penalty
sanction
ebullience
calipers
urbane
21. Great flood heavy rush of water
beatify
mundane
deluge
piquant
22. Lower the quality weaken the strength
vitiate
coalescing
deprave
innocuous
23. Becoming young in nature or appearance
fixate
rejuvenation
malinger
grievous
24. To show clearly to indicate
perpetrate
apprehensive
evince
stride
25. To lessen to subside
abate
vacuity
paradigm
sluggard
26. Irritable easily angered
slur
reproach
chary
irascible
27. Dried plum silly person
prune
profligacy
inimitable
sublime
28. Star light-giving body
luminary
dote
piquant
extempore
29. Keep away from avoid
bereft
frantic
pellucid
shun
30. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
stickler
Conduce
earthenware
exploit
31. Able to fly trained experienced
halcyon
extricable
fledged
inured
32. Plundering
sidestep
depredation
livid
indistinct
33. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
eclat
minatory
platitude
fixate
34. Dishes made of baked clay
earthenware
satiate
precepts
crease
35. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
corroboration
proliferate
privation
infuriate
36. Hypnotize
plummet
serration
thrift
mesmerize
37. Ready to do something dishonest
euphoria
venal
placate
abdication
38. Omen sign
augury
concord
molt
accretion
39. Without taste or flavor
ardor
redeem
rebus
insipid
40. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
boorish
voluptuous
sundry
expostulate
41. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
ignominious
canvass
undermine
miser
42. Too economical miserly
refine
incorrigibility
cogitate
parsimonious
43. Constant
conspicuous
desiccant
sash
incessant
44. Strong dislike
dearth
pyre
profane
animosity
45. State of being passive/motionless
apartheid
opaqueness
nebulous
quiescence
46. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
prosaic
philistine
wanton
repast
47. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
apropos
abut
esoteric
liberality
48. Add beauty; decorate
forbearance
delineate
adorn
broach
49. Close connection relationship
commodious
exhaustive
gust
affinity
50. Being uncontrolled violent
intersperse
turbulence
livid
mundane