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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. Involving or using conversation.
squalid
colloquial
disconcert
purvey
2. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
connote
elegy
perish
predilection
3. Song of praise or triumph
commuter
condone
paean
stickler
4. Enthusiasm
insouciant
coax
ardor
inchoate
5. Put pour fill
mendacity
indulgent
valorous
infuse
6. Belong as a part have reference
aleck
distraught
pertain
yeoman
7. To tolerate endure
precarious
cloture
inane
brook
8. Over-high opinion of too much pride
odious
proclivity
conceit
asterisk
9. Hinder get in the way of
poignant
impede
jejune
personable
10. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
proliferate
incredulous
reconcile
specious
11. Accustomed to adapted
boisterous
chicanery
inured
abraded
12. One who loves mankind
philanthropist
trudge
revere
barren
13. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
prevalent
pliant
discrete
temerity
14. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
impugned
ossify
squat
orison
15. Slander
paucity
aspersion
gaucherie
liberality
16. Lacking solidarity - strength
wince
flimsy
aversion
obfuscate
17. To distress create stress or torment
trickle
profligate
harrow
morbid
18. As an installment
antidote
interim
opaqueness
proscribe
19. Too strong to be defeated
chastened
invincible
bandy
tautology
20. Worldly having contempt for God
cordial
colander
endearing
profane
21. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
sanctimony
sobriquet
baleful
somersault
22. Favorable successful prosperous
auspicious
crease
manacle
concord
23. (of eyes) dull
dangle
impervious
prodigal
lackluster
24. Greatly surprised
nonplused
meretricious
repudiate
skit
25. Not normal or usual
counterfeit
swerve
preternatural
coerce
26. To hesitate raise objections
demur
meretricious
didactic
qualm
27. To debase by mixing with something inferior
alloy
baneful
truculence
dormant
28. A beginner
constrict
vagary
wean
tyro
29. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
breach
turpitude
quixotic
prone
30. Trifling/worthless
tamper
plaintive
nugatory
introvert
31. Government ruled by old people
torment
odious
gerontocracy
covert
32. Repulsive hateful
obviate
terse
odious
malign
33. Easily broken
brittle
fetid
discomfit
implacable
34. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
piquant
inculcate
innocuous
rebus
35. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
revere
corroboration
effluvia
abdication
36. To show clearly to indicate
stray
evince
quiescence
pundit
37. Enclose in capsule
clamor
splenetic
encapsulate
agile
38. Stone used for sharpening tools
burnish
hone
verisimilitude
denouement
39. Split crack dissension
restive
pertain
rift
decry
40. Tending to evade
evasive
gourmand
latent
wag
41. Make or become soft by soaking in water
sober
macerate
bereft
matriculation
42. Briefly without delay
diatribe
fret
mite
summarily
43. Propriety properness
plaintive
immutable
upbraid
decorum
44. Rules establishing standards of conduct
raffish
precepts
dearth
apartheid
45. Outside the law
extralegal
squander
ingenuous
commuter
46. Small sin small weakness in one's character
mettlesome
spear
peccadillo
gullible
47. Rash indiscreet
vigilance
soggy
vitriolic
impudent
48. Unaware having no memory
consternation
cognizant
salutary
oblivious
49. Special liking mental preference
grave
precarious
hack
predilection
50. A lament a melancholy composition
asterisk
extinguish
pervade
elegy