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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. Arrogant conceited
rarefy
flaunting
voluptuous
haughty
2. Write in scholarly fashion
benefactor
lucubrate
incite
sidestep
3. Publicly mock or ridicule
oblivious
lampoon
contrite
opaqueness
4. Tending to evade
hypocrisy
truculence
evasive
drawl
5. Temporary fleeting
transient
livid
luculent
prevaricate
6. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
raconteur
feint
dearth
detraction
7. Nickname
enigma
sash
sobriquet
pusillanimous
8. Learned scholarly
extralegal
germane
noisome
erudite
9. Forgery
counterfeit
embezzle
emaciate
sophomoric
10. To cut out cut away
exscind
ascertain
coeval
presage
11. Negotiation
insensible
sporadic
parley
auxiliary
12. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
supercilious
philistine
intransigence
hoax
13. To remove obscenity purify censor
expurgate
distraught
scalding
opprobrious
14. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
combustion
inchoate
parenthesis
wag
15. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
overweening
barrage
voluptuous
vestige
16. A raid a sudden attack
prodigal
incursion
intransigence
levity
17. Based on error
teetotal
stygian
hoi
fallacious
18. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
vex
prone
plaintive
prudish
19. Easily shocked excessively modest
splice
grumble
intransigent
prudish
20. Practicing self-denial austere stark
hoax
falter
ascetic
distrait
21. Helping supporting
apotheosis
auxiliary
garner
covetous
22. (of eyes) dull
hoax
lackluster
dainty
glut
23. Finical
pugnacious
quell
finicky
reprobate
24. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
dexterity
valorous
edible
fledged
25. Sealed by fusion
lien
lope
hermetic
spurn
26. Distracted
vigilant
distrait
ascend
flaunting
27. Written order
recreancy
apropos
writ
suffocate
28. Little depth not earnest
aver
sundry
boggle
shallow
29. Give greatly needed support
bolster
sermon
falter
veneer
30. Polloi the masses the rabble
hoi
elaborate
veneer
uncouth
31. FALSE counterfeit
ambrosial
deviance
spurious
cloture
32. Display to obtain admiration or envy
nascent
ostentation
convoke
agile
33. Blocked up
occluded
derision
cordial
pyre
34. Collapse bursting inward
inquest
mulct
implosion
iconoclast
35. Widespread
rife
pusillanimous
epitome
fringe
36. That cannot be changed
agog
visceral
rescind
immutable
37. Twisting force causing rotation
flak
torque
ascend
coeval
38. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
implacable
middling
somersault
salacious
39. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
asperity
orison
tadpole
aseptic
40. Shameless immorality
profligacy
pernicious
vex
ambiguous
41. Careful forethought
prudence
Conduce
dulcet
flop
42. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
liberality
fawn
petrify
fission
43. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
feral
beguile
gaucherie
narcissism
44. Convincing firm belief
ambrosial
prudence
salvage
conviction
45. In enjoy warmth and light
bask
alloy
grouse
prosaic
46. Striped grooved or banded
patron
sluggard
heinous
striated
47. Causing no harm
overweening
innocuous
chicanery
endorse
48. Person who stirs up war
puissance
premature
warmonger
crass
49. At be discontented with
ambrosial
purvey
repine
belabor
50. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
precursors
adorn
resilience
trenchant