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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. Sealed by fusion
presentiment
feud
hirsute
hermetic
2. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
gauche
cling
derision
recidivism
3. Complain or grumble (verb)
exorbitant
grouse
bedizen
belabor
4. Use extravagant language
rant
guile
transient
putrefaction
5. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
itinerate
profane
doggerel
engrossing
6. To deny to oppose
luminary
gainsay
limn
interim
7. Anticipatory fear; premonition
sash
demagogue
taunt
presentiment
8. Place here and there
intersperse
earthenware
boisterous
salutary
9. Speak distinctly connect by joints
inane
dupe
articulate
nostrum
10. Dishonesty
auspicious
acumen
mendacity
palpability
11. Prolonged
premature
supercilious
inept
protracted
12. A supporting bar
veneer
sanguine
equipoise
strut
13. To be stained or discredited
canvass
credulity
sullied
incursion
14. Attention/give notice to
forage
heed
veer
libertine
15. Paint with dots
sober
stipple
avid
infuse
16. Unreasonably impatient
prevaricate
fidelity
petulant
corporeal
17. A connection tie or link
lavish
encomium
nexus
aggravate
18. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
extinguish
reverent
heed
ensconce
19. Depth
meticulous
profundity
parley
variegate
20. Drink deeply
steeply
supplicate
quaff
vituperate
21. Frank straight-forward
temerity
candid
grievous
tenacity
22. Quality of endurance or courage
ostensible
mettle
nugatory
limp
23. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
palatial
personable
cajole
superimpose
24. Relying on experiment
empirical
extinguish
dainty
precepts
25. Bitter protest
fulmination
descry
reverent
disheveled
26. Convincing firm belief
discomfit
conviction
negligent
middling
27. Burn slowly without flame
jibe
smolder
animosity
extrovert
28. Make (pain) easier to bear
hypocrisy
epistle
alleviate
apostate
29. Briefly without delay
savant
emote
covert
summarily
30. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
extinct
implacable
warrant
corporeal
31. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
shun
extant
preen
resigned
32. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
aloof
regicide
veracity
33. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
cavalcade
auspicious
maverick
detumescence
34. Not paying proper attention
indolence
surfeit
visceral
inadvertent
35. Persevering
grave
malign
sedulous
temperate
36. Self-love
testiness
narcissism
condense
jocular
37. Steel tool for shaping materials
chisel
attenuate
specious
lucubrate
38. Showing scorn or reproach
premature
quotidian
opprobrious
insinuate
39. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
deferential
qualm
reticent
gush
40. Bookish showing off learning
pique
pedantic
incipient
enzyme
41. A song of grief or lamentation
reverent
incumbents
stingy
dirge
42. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
ascertain
gush
eddy
portent
43. Courageous high-spirited
lavish
quixotic
vigilant
mettlesome
44. Forgery
predilection
recompense
inveterate
counterfeit
45. Bold
audacious
orison
extenuate
foppish
46. Walk heavily
cower
blandishment
virago
trudge
47. Gather facts in small quantities
glean
tawdry
ambrosial
gorge
48. Flow in drops
sublime
torque
scent
trickle
49. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
gush
endemic
asperity
incipient
50. Statement that damages reputation
inane
libel
transient
repulsive