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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. Severe criticism
scabbard
infuriate
incongruous
excoriation
2. Self-confidence
vigilance
middling
aplomb
orison
3. Easily controlled or guided
tractable
euphoria
doggerel
middling
4. Easily broken
sporadic
brittle
hoax
loll
5. Harmful injurious
jejune
superimpose
pernicious
nascent
6. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
subpoena
tyro
scalding
fallacious
7. To take in marriage
hubris
colander
espouse
fragile
8. Doing or happening something before the right time
premature
glimmer
retrospective
recitals
9. Quick judging and understanding
deviance
impiety
perspicacity
affinity
10. Strong dislike
mesmerize
animosity
harangue
petrify
11. Get to the end of
trencherman
consume
detraction
incongruous
12. Emergency an urgent situation
convoluted
obloquy
exigency
debacle
13. Frantic frenzied
privation
squalid
convoluted
frenetic
14. Surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
veneer
apartheid
shrill
finesse
15. Blunt/stupid
extinguish
cordon
astute
obtuse
16. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
itinerate
chisel
predominate
grandiloquent
17. Little depth not earnest
dormant
complaisant
ensconce
shallow
18. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
patron
impassive
provisional
odor
19. Reproving a person for his faults
sermon
foolproof
disheveled
portent
20. Go or come up
mischievous
effluvia
ostracism
ascend
21. Fresh and green
affable
immaculate
verve
verdant
22. Severe suffering
anguish
dilate
ostentation
droll
23. Legal or judicial inquiry - especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
accrue
extinct
inquest
brook
24. Winding undulating serpentine
chicanery
fecund
sinuous
introvert
25. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
nexus
forswear
regale
engrossing
26. Come to grips/settle conclusively
obdurate
clinch
provident
combustion
27. Meticulous
trudge
punctilious
countenance
presumption
28. Fearless brave undaunted
cadge
fulsome
intrepid
stygian
29. Letter
epistle
irresolute
palatial
epiphany
30. Suggest something in the past
blatant
reminiscent
unearth
apprise
31. Not normal or usual
heinous
preternatural
oblivious
exoneration
32. Brief summary representative example a typical model
pine
epitome
yarn
dissemble
33. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
ignominious
shard
pulchritude
submerge
34. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
refine
foil
fixate
tenacity
35. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
bask
hallow
barren
middling
36. Made up of different kinds
skit
heterogeneous
innocuous
suppress
37. Idleness
vacuity
sanity
recompense
propitiatory
38. Strange act or idea
maul
profligate
vagary
propitious
39. Flow in drops
ulterior
trickle
tassel
emaciate
40. Waste away bite steadily
gnaw
deter
retrograde
grandiloquent
41. To venture
surcharge
foray
rejuvenation
ingest
42. Pure
cravat
chaste
diatribe
extort
43. Write in scholarly fashion
mercurial
lucubrate
foible
imprecation
44. Made of brass
brazen
epithet
heinous
exorbitant
45. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
imperative
sting
sullied
46. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
astute
dissolution
depredation
castigation
47. Being uncertain hesitating
extant
susceptibility
vacillation
nonplused
48. Be guilty commit (a crime)
propitious
perpetrate
divergence
veneration
49. Slow way of speaking
drawl
tonic
abet
rotund
50. Gloomy dark sullen morose
saturnine
graze
impair
profligacy