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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. Letter
intersperse
lampoon
epistle
venal
2. Final and unalterable
presentiment
stigma
toady
irrevocable
3. Physical of or for the body
concur
corporeal
morbid
sidestep
4. Like a rock hard stony
expedient
petrous
profuse
derogatory
5. Treacherous faithless
perfidious
taut
stentorian
demagogue
6. Process of burning
aloof
moribund
combustion
sidestep
7. Tiring because too long
doggerel
dynamo
equilibrium
prolix
8. Distracted violently upset in mind
patron
distraught
scabbard
empirical
9. Lower the quality weaken the strength
wan
pellucid
prim
vitiate
10. Put pour fill
astute
coerce
infuse
germane
11. Soft light delicate material
anguish
baleful
quibble
gossamer
12. Perfect/make perfect/complete
garble
efface
stingy
consummate
13. Make morally bad corrupt
tarnished
contumacious
roll
deprave
14. Refuse to approve of
inured
alcove
entangle
discountenance
15. Move force from the place occupied
dislodge
crush
abacus
abstruse
16. Brightly colored florid
rarefy
nebulous
flamboyant
gossamer
17. Person who tells anecdotes
console
somatic
detumescence
raconteur
18. To darken make obscure muddle
sundry
countervail
obfuscate
imperturbable
19. Stir up rouse
foment
caustic
recuperate
incite
20. One who considers himself smarter than others
expostulate
aleck
baneful
gush
21. Open disobedience or resistance
abate
suffice
defiance
mince
22. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
catalyst
probity
punitive
erudite
23. Hence dark gloomy
deplete
broach
foible
stygian
24. Weaken deprive of strength attenuate
shunt
rivet
aspersion
enervate
25. To assuage to satisfy allay
luminary
consequential
malleable
slake
26. Bending twisting
deposition
infuriate
lithe
concord
27. Not normal or usual
preternatural
gaucherie
malinger
combustion
28. Avoid
eschew
interim
indomitable
shunt
29. Showing no emotion impassive
engrave
mundane
stolid
lavish
30. (person) with superior tastes
iconoclast
highbrow
inchoate
undermine
31. Strong inclination a liking
penchant
auspicious
redeem
brass
32. Meant as a joke
plea
jocular
churl
edify
33. Lively high-spirited
squat
coy
tadpole
vivacious
34. Say or do again several times
superimpose
reiterate
euthanasia
chaste
35. Taste flavor something
consume
skit
savor
plunge
36. Showing self-control
endearing
temperate
consequential
turmoil
37. Dishes made of baked clay
stipulate
earthenware
coda
voluptuous
38. Claw of a bird of prey
paean
decorum
astringent
talon
39. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
hoodwink
defiance
connoisseur
nadir
40. Dethronement depositing
deposition
levee
convoke
gainsay
41. Think deeply mediate
cogitate
graze
impede
crush
42. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
rife
sophomoric
flamboyant
collusion
43. Polite and friendly
affable
ebullience
vacillation
forgery
44. Stinking
censure
platitude
embezzle
fetid
45. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
demagogue
bask
luculent
philistine
46. Roughness of manner or of surface
aleck
ruffian
compunction
asperity
47. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
sporadic
espouse
connote
censure
48. Person who hates mankind
antidote
pry
misanthrope
desultory
49. Prohibit forbid
interdict
writ
satiate
bigot
50. Ill-tempered unsocial
morose
obloquy
inveterate
rebuff