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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 favor or approve of
mettle
philanthropist
subsume
countenance
2. To chastise correct by punishing
castigate
ebullience
blandishment
pinch
3. A repetition a redundancy
tautology
pinch
plead
picaresque
4. Tiring because too long
prolix
elicit
recondite
acclaimed
5. Easily broken
philanthropist
effete
brittle
figurehead
6. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
stride
simper
palliate
7. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
finicky
oblivious
strive
subpoena
8. That can be freed
extricable
thwart
invincible
machination
9. Be enough
ponderous
vehemence
procrastination
suffice
10. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
ensign
squat
urbane
11. Waste away bite steadily
myriad
falter
gregarious
gnaw
12. Have a mutual relation
contrite
correlate
falter
toady
13. Elegant refined in manners
dolt
paean
boisterous
urbane
14. Sharp piercing
shrill
soot
intransigence
apropos
15. Increasing the number spreading extending
propagation
somersault
pine
harangue
16. Inclination
subpoena
stickler
proclivity
transitory
17. Following; attendants
retinue
hollow
revere
extort
18. Health of mind soundness of judgment
dirge
pluck
ostracism
sanity
19. Repeal/annul/cancel
hauteur
roll
temerity
rescind
20. Harmful or unfriendly
inimical
narcissism
prolix
incursion
21. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
inimical
disingenuous
chary
benevolence
22. Like a slave lacking independence
impervious
servile
irksome
indulge
23. Coming into existence emerging
striated
quiescence
nascent
sumptuous
24. To be stained or discredited
eclat
sullied
lithe
canvass
25. Exercises to develop strong bodies
phlegmatic
repine
calisthenics
consternation
26. Dig up from the earth
disinter
hirsute
tadpole
fringe
27. Authority written order guarantee
balk
distrait
warrant
imperious
28. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
oblivious
pundit
epiphany
gullible
29. Restore something to better condition
decry
edacious
gullible
renovate
30. Lower the quality weaken the strength
pulchritude
crush
vitiate
engender
31. Careful economical
frugal
indulge
trite
truce
32. Person who hates mankind
perfidy
euthanasia
misanthrope
commodious
33. Be out of view ready to attack
sinuous
lurk
immutable
predominate
34. Lasting
cloture
pry
enduring
augury
35. To roam wander freely
profane
expatiate
luculent
gregarious
36. Dried plum silly person
harangue
ascertain
tonic
prune
37. To hesitate raise objections
hew
incessant
satiate
demur
38. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
perish
obdurate
impromptu
lien
39. Bombastic
constrain
macerate
fustian
torpid
40. Essentially different
froward
contentious
hoax
disparate
41. Drink deeply
inept
elegy
quaff
bigot
42. Call up bring out
evoke
boggle
pucker
poncho
43. Blunt/stupid
obtuse
labyrinthine
chagrin
edacious
44. Something giving strength or energy
wean
submerge
lionize
tonic
45. Sealed by fusion
hermetic
tractable
inferno
feckless
46. Lying on the back slow to act passive
equanimity
misanthrope
sophisticated
supine
47. Dishonorable common undignified
presage
ignoble
stray
indomitable
48. Jesting
cornucopia
droll
ebullience
retrospective
49. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
penury
didactic
ambidextrous
preternatural
50. Easily seen remarkable
conceit
provoke
conspicuous
fluke