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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. To chastise correct by punishing
reproach
consume
castigate
libertine
2. Shy easily frightened
impermeable
perfidy
timid
infuriate
3. Pleasing in appearance attractive
chaste
personable
writ
incessant
4. Step to one side
mettlesome
sidestep
equable
repel
5. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
enduring
lionize
taut
ford
6. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
itinerate
visceral
infuriate
prudence
7. Star light-giving body
inimitable
renovate
itinerate
luminary
8. Too eager to obey or serve
quibble
finicky
consequential
obsequious
9. Letter
epistle
shallow
atonement
coeval
10. Forgery
obtrusive
counterfeit
quirk
sidestep
11. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
indomitable
fluke
dissent
gloat
12. Celebrated famous
snare
argot
renowned
negligent
13. Mix combine unite societies
slack
amalgamate
entangle
apt
14. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
eschew
exigency
mellifluous
15. Patience willingness to wait
mesmerize
inane
apartheid
forbearance
16. Strong dislike
conciliatory
animosity
ale
rarefy
17. Positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
vacuity
felon
dogmatic
skiff
18. Black powder in smoke
soot
narcissism
idiosyncrasy
disparate
19. Boldness impudence arrogance
middling
gourmand
effrontery
fragrant
20. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
gourmand
fatuous
balk
erratic
21. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
extricable
empirical
qualm
sawdust
22. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
aseptic
pulchritude
hew
23. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
gust
recitals
consequential
gainsay
24. Covered with hair
ensconce
churl
vituperate
pileous
25. Hairy shaggy
platitude
undermine
evince
hirsute
26. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
trudge
verve
procrastination
edible
27. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
censure
sententious
luculent
fringe
28. Having little or no money
impecunious
harangue
aggravate
imprecation
29. Individually distinct
crease
platitude
discrete
revere
30. Make morally bad corrupt
deprave
flout
disproof
pedantic
31. Truth
cling
veracity
requite
occluded
32. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
probity
sullied
apostate
dislodge
33. Not having interest
curtail
endorse
nonchalant
conundrum
34. Hatred being an enemy
vituperate
enmity
epithet
inasmuch
35. Go or come up
edible
piquant
ascend
requite
36. Deliberate deception
articulate
crease
duplicity
impending
37. Complain or grumble (verb)
consternation
conjoin
grouse
saturnine
38. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
condense
consternation
cavalcade
39. Harmful or unfriendly
nibble
valorous
inimical
miser
40. A beginner
repel
tyro
fatuous
fetid
41. Fix take up secure metal pin
riddle
cantankerous
tonic
rivet
42. To hinder obstruct or block
exscind
intransigence
chisel
stymie
43. Easily broken
belligerent
refine
excoriation
brittle
44. Silly senseless
inured
hollow
inane
curmudgeon
45. Be destroyed decay
colloquial
admonitory
extant
perish
46. Artificial obstacle built across a river
froward
raffish
clientele
barrage
47. Come to grips/settle conclusively
rumple
reactionary
clinch
ferret
48. Jargon slang
topple
soggy
argot
ascend
49. Move quickly suddenly and with force
macabre
ignoble
plunge
eradicate
50. Wrinkle
covert
sketchy
pucker
contentious