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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. Act of preaching
disconcert
homiletics
cower
deposition
2. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
quibble
pied
ostracism
recidivism
3. Use until none remains
interim
deplete
argot
centurion
4. Step to one side
sidestep
forestall
arboreal
distrait
5. Brave
contemn
valorous
vanquish
partisan
6. Tending to evade
intrepid
slack
petrify
evasive
7. Polite and friendly
sophisticated
cant
erudite
affable
8. State of being passive/motionless
quiescence
retinue
plea
abeyance
9. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
dolt
auspicious
baleful
presumption
10. Customers
serrated
clientele
flaunting
derision
11. Sentence within another one something separated
endearing
parenthesis
perch
peccadillo
12. Easily gulled
valiant
fret
retrospective
gullible
13. Taken away power (to think feel act)
extenuate
roll
transitory
petrified
14. Abusive language curses
encomium
soggy
invective
mulct
15. Attract - lure
entice
ascetic
qualm
perpetrate
16. Shy easily frightened
personable
timid
palpitate
ineluctable
17. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
philistine
condense
tortuous
whimsical
18. Uncertain risky dangerous
platitude
blatant
officious
precarious
19. Slander say evil things
vilify
torque
feral
poncho
20. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
petulant
gorge
gerontocracy
ubiquitous
21. Brave -behaves well with women
lassitude
gallant
conundrum
agile
22. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
interdict
supercilious
chisel
ensign
23. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
unscathed
apartheid
waft
entangle
24. Trying to please; obliging
putrefaction
pyre
complaisant
pusillanimous
25. Relevant pertinent to
germane
waft
churlish
detraction
26. To lessen to subside
laudatory
pristine
abate
forage
27. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
dissent
rebus
libel
foppish
28. Prohibit forbid
infuse
interdict
render
hubris
29. Of the internal organs of the body
vivacious
visceral
limn
toady
30. Childish
immaculate
puerile
diaphanous
libel
31. Asking humbly beseeching
remonstrate
discredit
perch
suppliant
32. Person who has given help
narcissism
benefactor
obviate
hallow
33. Lessen the severity of
acarpous
reproach
resuscitation
palliate
34. Draw out
elicit
gist
penchant
stint
35. Made up of different kinds
penurious
cower
heterogeneous
jagged
36. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
ale
plethora
ascribe
resuscitation
37. Favorable successful prosperous
auspicious
indulge
fatuous
pusillanimous
38. Wretched comfortless contemptible
oblivious
sordid
manacle
vanquish
39. Quality of being unskillful
decry
pellucid
ineptitude
boisterous
40. Calm and peaceful
reticent
splenetic
halcyon
suppress
41. To cause to adhere - as with glue
enunciate
agglutinate
forbearance
articulate
42. Try to avoid by sophistication
quibble
dote
assiduous
recreancy
43. Special liking mental preference
writ
predilection
permeate
abdication
44. Having a toothed edge
abscond
serration
countenance
obviate
45. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
tamp
fluke
craven
pluck
46. Treacherous faithless
dilate
coy
perfidious
sublime
47. Following; attendants
voluble
maladroit
punctilious
retinue
48. Curse abuse in words
vituperate
Palpable
recitals
endorse
49. Having both of two contrary meanings
frugal
dilate
vindictive
ambivalent
50. Fall back again
glut
arrant
reproach
relapse