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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Special liking mental preference
resilience
sobriquet
predilection
snare
2. Passage that completes a piece of music
coda
blithe
supplicate
sullied
3. Sensitiveness
importune
slake
susceptibility
abeyance
4. Tiring because too long
extinct
prolix
regicide
provident
5. Childish
amalgamate
abet
puerile
credulous
6. Without taste or flavor
mulct
falter
insipid
foppish
7. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
exorbitant
gullible
picaresque
pest
8. Polloi the masses the rabble
apropos
hoi
imperative
trepidation
9. Dethronement depositing
cavalcade
deposition
meticulous
consummate
10. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
malinger
ire
preclude
gouge
11. Obsequious flatterer
astringent
quirk
toady
condone
12. Dried plum silly person
sobriety
coagulation
burgeon
prune
13. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
decry
lithe
salutary
grandiloquent
14. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
sting
inured
itinerate
torpid
15. Hide keep secret
bogus
conceal
shunned
auspicious
16. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
canvass
placate
cavalcade
Palpable
17. Recess/partially enclosed place
agile
dismal
alcove
tenacity
18. Ready to believe things
abacus
exscind
malevolence
credulous
19. Still in existence
putrefaction
alcove
extant
fleet
20. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
edible
impending
evince
gust
21. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
supercilious
imprecation
ecumenical
scorch
22. Wandering
sawdust
peripatetic
finicky
lackluster
23. Not easily discouraged or subdued
nebulous
indomitable
torment
amalgamate
24. Look on with contempt
shunned
deluge
disdain
mite
25. Dig up from the earth
tout
disinter
ineluctable
euphoria
26. Quick judging and understanding
panegyric
indelible
macabre
perspicacity
27. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
suborn
convoluted
levity
perish
28. Admit; declare openly
sever
chisel
avow
consummate
29. Try to avoid by sophistication
quibble
foray
iconoclast
flaunting
30. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
spear
foppish
epiphany
appease
31. Temporary fleeting
transient
hone
aggravate
lament
32. Go or come up
convoluted
ascend
infuse
woo
33. Make quiet or calm
appease
caustic
feint
colloquial
34. Person who travels regularly
overweening
commuter
eschew
retinue
35. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
lumber
benign
pugnacious
enigma
36. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
crush
opaqueness
benefactor
heterogeneous
37. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
incursion
opaqueness
implosion
calumny
38. State or put forward as a necessary condition
supine
stipulate
maul
antithetical
39. Person who has given help
hone
benefactor
massacre
interdict
40. To be stained or discredited
harbinger
sullied
sycophant
collusion
41. Sluggish dull not tight
rejuvenation
incense
slack
pileous
42. Having plenty of space for what is needed
mellifluous
commodious
subsume
pedantic
43. Approval
burnish
ebullience
approbation
aloof
44. Real rightly named
veritable
puerile
fleet
susceptibility
45. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
intrepid
sheath
riddle
mellifluous
46. Easily injured broken or destroyed
onus
penurious
fragile
labyrinthine
47. Coming into existence emerging
fulsome
dogmatic
nascent
curriculum
48. Curse abuse in words
requite
vituperate
atonement
enervate
49. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
cower
turbid
testiness
nascent
50. Trivial poorly constructed verse
baneful
doggerel
heretic
homiletics