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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. Avoided - kept away from
suffocate
forbear
fluster
shunned
2. Take back as being FALSE give up
brazen
recant
turpitude
riddle
3. Haughtiness
prevaricate
hauteur
cabal
pyre
4. Cruel killing of a large number of people
abacus
dote
undermine
massacre
5. Fail/move/fall clumsily
benign
flop
impudent
disinter
6. Melodious harmonious
dulcet
nonchalant
enthral
dissent
7. To cut out cut away
hoax
profane
perch
exscind
8. Take up a high position
perch
dereliction
incessant
rarefy
9. Disguised
pluck
prodigious
covert
hoax
10. Repulsive hateful
irresolute
enzyme
odious
clot
11. Idleness
undulate
vacuity
vain
laudatory
12. Glut
libertine
deprave
plethora
pariah
13. Long thin move very fast
streak
subpoena
abdication
engrave
14. Suppressed - kept back
thrift
hoax
stifled
jocular
15. Bookish showing off learning
pedantic
forbear
ensconce
perpetrate
16. Severe criticism
extrovert
excoriation
shrewd
maul
17. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
mercurial
morbid
enmity
18. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
libel
sadastic
cabal
19. Quality of endurance or courage
torpid
mettle
odious
fragrant
20. Make a lower bid then somebody else
facetious
obtain
underbid
epitome
21. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
ascribe
jabber
recant
sententious
22. To beg to get by begging
coerce
irascible
cadge
gainsay
23. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
repulsive
limp
plunge
salutary
24. Cruel
impervious
sadastic
arboreal
forswear
25. Inclination
gaucherie
accretion
proclivity
cryptic
26. Person who eats a lot
cordon
trencherman
subsume
exigency
27. Of the body
accolade
somatic
stanch
skit
28. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
reproach
rebus
harrow
sycophant
29. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
hew
prune
cantankerous
yeoman
30. A lament a melancholy composition
telltale
heresy
elegy
inscrutable
31. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
suffice
soggy
suffocate
foible
32. Crouch shrink back
cower
vigorous
aver
ineffable
33. Worry irritation wear away
eclat
fringe
fret
vituperate
34. Measure hoe heavy something is
conceal
flop
aberration
weigh
35. Like a slave lacking independence
cogent
servile
august
procrastination
36. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
exscind
epicurean
terse
suffocate
37. Star light-giving body
elaborate
suborn
proliferate
luminary
38. Walk heavily
impediment
forgery
trudge
prodigal
39. Discover by searching search
ferret
reprobate
obsequious
grievous
40. Involving or using conversation.
guile
garner
colloquial
coax
41. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
pry
denigrate
enunciate
scabbard
42. Needing effort burdensome
expostulate
imminent
onerous
penchant
43. Insubstantial flimsy weak
quiescence
permeate
cabal
tenuous
44. Greatness in number strength weight
excoriation
pliant
impede
preponderance
45. Bring up announce begin to talk about
forfeit
sophisticated
broach
valorous
46. Write one's name on the back of
desultory
impassive
endorse
arboreal
47. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
specious
harangue
cajole
husk
48. Of the same period coexisting
barren
coeval
reiterate
retrospective
49. Deliver provide represent
yarn
render
finesse
lustrous
50. Protest against express disapproval of
mulct
vitriolic
inveigh
deprecate