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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. Hence dark gloomy
stygian
sluggard
equable
specious
2. Cheat make a fool of
defer
debacle
pileous
dupe
3. In the highest degree
arrant
coagulation
earthenware
sanguine
4. To cause to adhere - as with glue
ebullient
epicurean
coax
agglutinate
5. Letter
testiness
epistle
cornucopia
apostate
6. State or put forward as a necessary condition
ardor
conciliatory
quotidian
stipulate
7. Greatness in number strength weight
salacious
gloat
preponderance
pervade
8. Deliver provide represent
verve
wend
render
apprehensive
9. Crime of killing a king
regicide
castigation
fawn
countervail
10. Easily understood lucid clear
baneful
plaintive
luculent
coax
11. Brief summary representative example a typical model
pliant
elaborate
epitome
suppress
12. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
gist
philistine
sullied
epicurean
13. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
heed
fragrant
middling
gust
14. Coming together and uniting into one substance
rapacious
coalescing
nascent
skiff
15. Like a rock hard stony
gist
tyro
demur
petrous
16. Showing respect
parsimonious
deferential
bellicose
consternation
17. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
augury
proscribe
foment
rueful
18. Large piece of cloth
vacuity
salubrious
waft
poncho
19. Ending expiring
inchoate
ossify
expiation
alloy
20. Say or do again several times
cogitate
reiterate
qualm
sullied
21. Showing scorn or reproach
sawdust
sophisticated
opprobrious
turgid
22. Show much fondness center one's attention
inane
dote
fulsome
soot
23. Annoy distress trouble
arboreal
plaintive
vanquish
vex
24. Poverty
incumbents
inured
indigence
opaqueness
25. Harmful causing mischief
mischievous
plaintive
precursory
maul
26. Easy-going trifle
weigh
unencumbered
affable
imbroglio
27. Trap
redoubtable
infuriate
endeavor
snare
28. Happening from time to time
sporadic
misogynist
beguile
quibble
29. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
discrete
evoke
opaqueness
glimmer
30. Greedy (esp for money)
edible
rapacious
mischievous
accretion
31. Make known something secret
divulge
sententious
disingenuous
mollify
32. Person much smaller the usual size
dwarf
timid
nebulous
sidestep
33. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
inchoate
conviction
irate
legacy
34. Being uncontrolled violent
palpitate
turbulence
agile
extort
35. Person who stirs up war
warmonger
phlegmatic
roll
conspicuous
36. Inclination
attenuate
impromptu
proclivity
centurion
37. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
plaque
stymie
resort
perjury
38. Prayer
fustian
spurious
catalyst
orison
39. Flood cover by overflowing
embezzle
tenuous
divulge
inundate
40. Substance used to absorb moisture
desiccant
pellucid
irate
picaresque
41. Smell favor reputation
froward
ascertain
odor
retard
42. Fairly good but not very good
inimitable
sever
erratic
middling
43. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
felon
overweening
lachrymose
fustian
44. Nurture care for
enigma
malign
foster
veritable
45. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
garble
conciliatory
idolatry
prosaic
46. Take the place of
trifling
overhaul
supersede
pedantic
47. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
pry
loll
arabesque
morose
48. Deification glorification to godliness
apotheosis
liberality
prolix
epithet
49. Bitter quarrel over a long period of time
calisthenics
impudent
feud
turquoise
50. Not normal or usual
stray
preternatural
conspicuous
ensconce