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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. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
venal
profligate
irrevocable
blase
2. Strenuous effort
alleviate
arduous
jabber
feckless
3. Arrangement to give something at death
exoneration
superfluous
bequest
inimitable
4. Repeal or annul by authority
epithet
rotund
fledged
abrogate
5. Preliminary anticipating
plaque
ambidextrous
precursory
penurious
6. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
brash
requite
figurehead
harrow
7. Silly senseless
ascetic
inured
impute
inane
8. Renounce disallow repudiate
inferno
reconcile
forswear
exculpate
9. Call calling of names
nexus
facetious
roll
foray
10. Distribute (esp. ideas)
vain
disseminate
vivacious
dynamo
11. A very small amount - portion - or particle
viscous
mite
homiletics
discountenance
12. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
ascetic
propitiatory
repine
13. Giving facts to support (statement)
coalescing
reactionary
prosaic
substantiation
14. Having plenty of space for what is needed
burgeon
soggy
commodious
nascent
15. Twisting force causing rotation
idiosyncrasy
trickle
perish
torque
16. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
tenacity
quotidian
overweening
splice
17. Showing scorn or reproach
divergence
opprobrious
striated
bilge
18. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
testiness
decree
indulge
spear
19. Complex
benevolence
nexus
amortize
involute
20. Customers
expatiate
clientele
finicky
sting
21. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
bellicose
extralegal
surfeit
itinerate
22. Smell (especially pleasant)
cognizant
scent
expiation
spurious
23. Cut roughly hired horse
hack
massacre
coruscate
purvey
24. Wander lose one's way
ferment
introspection
credulity
stray
25. To take in marriage
brittle
sketchy
espouse
extinct
26. Blunt/stupid
encapsulate
obtuse
provident
obtrusive
27. Oppose to alcohol
teetotal
obdurate
exuberance
commemorate
28. Bold
shrill
nonchalant
dirge
audacious
29. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
malign
mischievous
mendacity
30. Lively high-spirited
dawdler
vivacious
resilience
moribund
31. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
secular
drowsiness
probity
eschew
32. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
sere
baleful
balk
obsequious
33. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
resilience
partisan
gallant
predilection
34. A sheet of floating ice
floe
incite
tractable
pernicious
35. Fill with fury or rage
abeyance
infuriate
obtrusive
indomitable
36. Childish
paucity
ambiguous
disencumber
puerile
37. Come to grips/settle conclusively
edible
gregarious
belligerent
clinch
38. Trace or sign
bogus
vestige
mettlesome
coy
39. Give greatly needed support
sanction
flout
overweening
bolster
40. Sad gloomy miserable
consume
obloquy
gossamer
dismal
41. A generator something that produces electric current
entreat
dynamo
squalid
gossamer
42. A supporting bar
resuscitation
strut
render
introvert
43. Wretched comfortless contemptible
consternation
inveigh
acarpous
sordid
44. Sensitiveness
torment
susceptibility
castigation
impudent
45. Pure
truculence
chaste
inimical
shard
46. Too great a readiness to believe things
brass
credulity
verve
earthenware
47. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
hirsute
reticent
extinguish
dawdler
48. To hinder obstruct or block
breach
peripatetic
fatuous
stymie
49. To darken make obscure muddle
obfuscate
glean
benefactor
foray
50. Representing the whole Christian world
epithet
strut
hubris
ecumenical