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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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1. Passage that completes a piece of music
succor
coda
aver
cant
2. Plundering
impetuous
extirpate
myriad
depredation
3. Propriety properness
falter
beguile
decorum
sententious
4. Welcomed with shouts and approval
vitiate
aversion
brash
acclaimed
5. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
effluvia
desultory
bewilder
prodigious
6. Quality of being limited not extreme
inured
sever
moderation
orison
7. Tending to evade
pith
edacious
evasive
suffocate
8. Refrain from be patient ancestor
forbear
manacle
empirical
august
9. Make or become pure cultural
finical
dissemble
refine
cajole
10. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
abrogate
dainty
pious
odor
11. Unlawful forbidden
heresy
espouse
mince
illicit
12. Physical of or for the body
hapless
petulant
corporeal
ale
13. Violent cruel man
ruffian
decorum
subsume
prevaricate
14. Trying to please; obliging
deplete
clamor
interim
complaisant
15. Repayment death of Jesus
inchoate
profuse
atonement
effluvia
16. Easily shocked excessively modest
lope
prudish
forge
divulge
17. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
extralegal
preen
holster
supercilious
18. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
brook
precursors
benevolence
inimitable
19. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
temperance
profligacy
cornucopia
recidivism
20. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
exploit
proliferate
agile
salvage
21. Confuse embarrass
profundity
discomfit
coruscate
deferential
22. Little known abstruse
discrete
recondite
extinct
enervate
23. Suggest something in the past
berate
desuetude
reminiscent
austere
24. Unspoken - silent
gorge
taciturn
ambiguous
refulgent
25. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
moribund
sycophant
sanction
cogitate
26. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
quack
sporadic
insinuate
pitfall
27. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
amortize
forswear
foppish
illicit
28. Stare at
evasive
sundry
fixate
retard
29. Lack of seriousness
indistinct
mercurial
levity
discreet
30. Make angry vax
provoke
disinter
wend
retrospective
31. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
benison
aberration
beatify
sash
32. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
stentorian
introvert
dainty
forfeit
33. Scold reproach
fracas
upbraid
floe
inundate
34. Substance used to absorb moisture
ascribe
desiccant
philistine
divergence
35. Intended to instruct
disconcert
didactic
imprecation
nebulous
36. Break go beyond (a limit)
reminiscent
pith
transgress
specious
37. To gather and save to store up
undermine
extralegal
garner
mercurial
38. Something urging a person to action
goad
jagged
intersperse
forge
39. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
grievous
profligate
poncho
pinch
40. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
encomium
disingenuous
aplomb
indulge
41. Get something inquire too curiously
pry
disheveled
remonstrate
livid
42. Silly senseless
implosion
inane
discourse
enunciate
43. To be involved
implicate
turquoise
conjoin
engender
44. Greatly surprised
rarefy
heinous
nonplused
presentiment
45. Offense resentment
umbrage
assiduous
topple
hollow
46. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
goad
probity
fixate
quotidian
47. Red and healthy
anguish
aloof
weigh
rubicund
48. Complete thorough
platitude
diaphanous
bilge
exhaustive
49. Paint portray
avid
yeoman
castigate
limn
50. Fond of in the habit of fighting
pugnacious
flimsy
glib
impede