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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. Poor/stingy
penurious
tenuous
parley
salacious
2. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
fawn
ambidextrous
equivocate
curmudgeon
3. Ill-tempered unsocial
benison
premature
boggle
morose
4. Happening from time to time
debacle
pitfall
sporadic
foible
5. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
solvent
propitiatory
stipulate
incite
6. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
slake
profligate
cloture
impediment
7. Repay give in return
nostrum
requite
lament
unscathed
8. Without preparation or forethought
consequential
brook
offhand
alacrity
9. End the existence of/wipe or put out
extinguish
connotation
imperturbable
tadpole
10. Person much smaller the usual size
paean
dwarf
vain
perch
11. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
legacy
forestall
lien
harrow
12. Wishing to do evil
falter
vagary
sophisticated
malevolence
13. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
blatant
truculence
officious
strut
14. Workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
deviance
cower
forge
barrage
15. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
sequence
impetuous
enthral
rabble
16. Self-confidence
pulchritude
nebulous
aplomb
haughty
17. Break go beyond (a limit)
cravat
ardor
repast
transgress
18. Too great a readiness to believe things
covert
credulity
consternation
colloquial
19. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
impassive
refine
edify
maul
20. (adj) boorish
idolatry
benign
malign
churlish
21. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
imprecation
suffocate
regale
teetotal
22. Of connected with trees
hack
commodious
wile
arboreal
23. To venture
inchoate
platitude
foray
yarn
24. Likely to come or happen soon
perfidious
imminent
quiescence
subdue
25. Long thin move very fast
arduous
tepid
discern
streak
26. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
susceptibility
impervious
pileous
ardor
27. Skill (esp. in handling)
sermon
revere
indomitable
dexterity
28. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
spurn
desultory
amalgamate
ameliorate
29. Place here and there
engulf
obsequious
intersperse
somersault
30. Gather facts in small quantities
foment
breach
elicit
glean
31. Careful economical
flax
frugal
revere
malleable
32. Dejected
venal
lampoon
rueful
berate
33. To make unnecessary get rid of
striated
vagary
obviate
probity
34. No longer active
extinct
extinguish
incorrigibility
nonchalant
35. Corrosive; sarcastic
salacious
heterogeneous
vitriolic
stolid
36. Strange act or idea
arboreal
quibble
vagary
articulate
37. Sound in judgment wise
platitude
judicious
halcyon
perjury
38. Person who hates mankind
quiescence
bigot
misanthrope
detraction
39. Threatening
desiccant
dirge
precursory
ominous
40. Fearless brave undaunted
pied
allegiance
saturnine
intrepid
41. Fresh and green
pest
clinch
verdant
candid
42. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
grandiloquent
discrete
exscind
43. Gibe make fun of
implacable
plumb
incumbents
jibe
44. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
attune
ascribe
astute
desultory
45. Have a mutual relation
correlate
spear
glean
sagacious
46. Quick judging and understanding
vilify
ignominious
condone
perspicacity
47. Uncommunicativeness
mesmerize
reticence
consume
exscind
48. To join together
extort
valiant
conjoin
glut
49. Temporary fleeting
aversion
transient
blatant
lustrous
50. Welcomed with shouts and approval
pyre
chicanery
presage
acclaimed