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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. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
plaque
refractory
edify
disinter
2. Meticulous
epicurean
endearing
punctilious
repine
3. Complicated and embarrassing situation
forage
pedestrian
imbroglio
aggravate
4. A blindly devoted patriot
effete
chauvinist
sponge
loll
5. Becoming rotten
pellucid
agile
putrefaction
complaisant
6. Opening broken place breaking
breach
blase
chagrin
gist
7. Deliberate deception
disparate
duplicity
deprave
chastened
8. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
recompense
dainty
pluck
mite
9. Succession connected line of
sequence
onus
stint
fission
10. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
preternatural
immutable
heresy
cordon
11. Dismal - mourful
bandy
forgery
doleful
abscond
12. To equivocate to stray from the truth
epiphany
churlish
prevaricate
sanguine
13. To bring about
turbulence
Conduce
detumescence
resort
14. Unresisting submissive
perjury
resuscitation
resigned
repudiate
15. Spending using unwillingly
stingy
expurgate
glean
gainsay
16. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
ferocity
superimpose
noisome
encomium
17. Trap
snare
turmoil
underbid
quack
18. Curse abuse in words
abscond
vituperate
trifling
extralegal
19. Corrosive; sarcastic
sophomoric
tangential
rife
vitriolic
20. Cast or fashion anew
recast
venal
cant
misogynist
21. Get to the root of
plumb
interim
nostrum
malign
22. Belong as a part have reference
sawdust
pertain
derivative
brass
23. Quick changeable in character fleeting
mercurial
indigence
telltale
inimitable
24. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
recuperate
pervade
tamper
commodious
25. Brave -behaves well with women
constrain
gallant
extralegal
pungency
26. Elation state of pleasant excitement
exculpate
fervor
lament
euphoria
27. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
debacle
gush
punctilious
acumen
28. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
dexterity
irrevocable
occluded
molt
29. One who considers himself smarter than others
quandary
aleck
reciprocity
deprave
30. Get rid of pull up by the roots
resuscitation
itinerate
eradicate
incense
31. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
mendacious
transitory
irrevocable
undulate
32. Open disobedience or resistance
cavalcade
ebullience
defiance
propinquity
33. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
disallow
bolster
detraction
supercilious
34. Severe suffering
nexus
anguish
bedizen
insensible
35. Transparent gauzy
ascetic
diaphanous
iconoclast
garrulous
36. Strenuous effort
arduous
derivative
tyro
malapropism
37. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
mischievous
whimsical
sluggard
quixotic
38. Feeling of regret for one's action
compunction
anguish
specious
odor
39. Burn slowly without flame
hoax
gerontocracy
smolder
obloquy
40. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
tadpole
lampoon
truculence
baneful
41. Lively high-spirited
vivacious
stolid
consume
aleck
42. Red and healthy
rubicund
enigma
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
castigate
43. Proud superior manner of behaviour
auspicious
detumescence
arrogance
rave
44. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
recidivism
flop
insensible
suborn
45. Affirm something to be true
sequence
coda
aver
legacy
46. Food for horses and cattle
forage
belligerent
diaphanous
wean
47. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
predominate
indolence
surcharge
turgid
48. Obstruct/frustrate
steeply
thwart
balk
flop
49. Feeling sleepy half asleep
suffice
drowsiness
maladroit
pinch
50. Refrain from be patient ancestor
itinerate
recant
drowsiness
forbear