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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. Walk heavily
trudge
bilge
catalyst
apotheosis
2. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
finesse
prudish
introspection
rueful
3. Harmful injurious
dwarf
pernicious
brittle
glib
4. Claw of a bird of prey
talon
abysmal
suppliant
profligate
5. One who hates women/females
peregrination
variegate
suffice
misogynist
6. Granting of privileges in return for similar
ameliorate
glib
terse
reciprocity
7. Show bodily or mental pain
apprehensive
congeal
wince
ruffian
8. Disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
fulsome
disseminate
infuse
figurehead
9. Quick judging and understanding
perspicacity
allegiance
sullied
incorrigibility
10. Lost brightness
exigency
tarnished
penitent
tortuous
11. Careful economical
frugal
reconcile
ponderous
finesse
12. Fill with fury or rage
commodious
stigmatize
recuperate
infuriate
13. Immoral person
miser
eloquence
libertine
taut
14. Affirm something to be true
stickler
barren
aver
surcharge
15. Dishes made of baked clay
incredulous
tamp
occluded
earthenware
16. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
dissemble
lampoon
mundane
combustion
17. Quality of endurance or courage
invective
odium
sponge
mettle
18. Reproving a person for his faults
convoluted
sermon
purvey
hauteur
19. Use until none remains
deplete
quixotic
expostulate
noxious
20. Impress deeply
toady
pinch
levee
engrave
21. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
malign
malapropism
adamant
castigation
22. Song of praise or triumph
paean
derivative
ulterior
prudence
23. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
tautology
secular
dainty
stifled
24. Active quick-moving
platitude
agile
onus
swerve
25. Long strip worn round the waist
bereft
sash
attune
sullied
26. Obstruct/frustrate
grumble
quotidian
empirical
thwart
27. Straying away from what is normal
unencumbered
aberration
obviate
recompense
28. Greatly surprised
abide
nonplused
proclivity
asperity
29. Make quiet or calm
abate
appease
morbid
interdict
30. Reddish - healthy-looking
parsimonious
malleable
ruddy
sober
31. Tightly stretched
apprehensive
sermon
taut
affable
32. Undress
abjure
disrobe
inveterate
encomium
33. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
stipple
august
disallow
impetuous
34. Paint with dots
hone
wan
inveigh
stipple
35. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
repel
sere
pusillanimous
esoteric
36. Easily gulled
gullible
precursors
subsume
equivocate
37. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
implacable
preen
ford
clientele
38. Draw move back wince
blatant
flinch
avid
lope
39. Person who insists on importance of something
pedestrian
scabbard
finesse
stickler
40. Aggressiveness ferocity
vivacious
truculence
lope
hapless
41. Giving up control authority
bilge
abdication
squat
shun
42. Coming together and uniting into one substance
undulate
cantankerous
coalescing
spurn
43. Humorous funny jocular
ascetic
facetious
evince
redeem
44. Feeling sleepy half asleep
halcyon
ruddy
drowsiness
quixotic
45. To join together
forestall
impute
avow
conjoin
46. Scold reproach
vestige
reticence
conceit
upbraid
47. Tiny bits of wood
streak
castigation
latent
sawdust
48. Repulsive hateful
introspection
excoriation
odious
implicate
49. Elation state of pleasant excitement
euphoria
slake
squander
inadvertent
50. Unharmed unhurt
dangle
shunt
expostulate
unscathed