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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. Suppress subdue
striated
detraction
quell
rotund
2. Unresisting submissive
hapless
resigned
assiduous
ubiquitous
3. Bring up announce begin to talk about
colloquial
hew
jibe
broach
4. To hinder obstruct or block
flax
requite
stymie
implacable
5. Having plenty of space for what is needed
commodious
august
timorous
arrant
6. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
expostulate
palpitate
puissance
breach
7. To roam wander freely
conceal
complaisance
deter
expatiate
8. Difficult to comprehend obscure
deprecate
gauche
presumption
abstruse
9. To make great efforts - to struggle
recluse
recast
sluggard
strive
10. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
abacus
stipulate
gorge
curriculum
11. Constant
quack
incessant
narcissism
blandness
12. Increasing the number spreading extending
servile
propagation
restive
abysmal
13. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
reactionary
grandiloquent
incumbents
frantic
14. Counterbalance
countervail
facetious
incite
indulgent
15. A complex ornate design
hermetic
dislodge
arabesque
fervid
16. Being uncontrolled violent
turbulence
placate
bedizen
sobriety
17. Various miscellaneous separate
miser
sundry
unfeigned
contrite
18. Asking humbly beseeching
counterfeit
rotund
hew
suppliant
19. Admit; declare openly
avow
erratic
fervid
consequential
20. Sticky/semi-fluid
penchant
viscous
incorrigibility
wince
21. Poverty
erudite
breach
placate
indigence
22. Obtain by threats violence
hone
irrevocable
extort
pristine
23. Great flood heavy rush of water
deluge
disseminate
blase
petrified
24. Insubstantial/dull/immature
approbation
jejune
sponge
sere
25. To be thrifty to set limits
stint
serration
commodious
ineptitude
26. Unlucky
renovate
puissance
abide
hapless
27. Hurt by rough handling
deposition
maul
incite
ominous
28. Improve make better
puissance
endorse
ameliorate
propinquity
29. Sharpness stinging quality
salacious
cravat
pungency
calumny
30. Something giving strength or energy
harbinger
fret
tonic
prodigal
31. Paint portray
limn
denigrate
tonic
husk
32. To frequently visit
covetous
ebullience
resort
perish
33. Elegant refined in manners
nonplused
ulterior
urbane
finical
34. Sound in judgment wise
figurehead
judicious
sequence
obviate
35. Dull and slow
expurgate
brook
torpid
evasive
36. Formidable causing fear
iconoclast
redoubtable
expatiate
abysmal
37. Strong dislike
specious
aversion
barren
proliferate
38. Accustomed to adapted
inured
accolade
imminent
Palpable
39. Collapse bursting inward
intransigent
mendicant
implosion
streak
40. Bad-tempered irritable
elicit
splenetic
vilify
dupe
41. Giving facts to support (statement)
alloy
substantiation
feckless
stint
42. Go or come up
pyre
ascend
narcissism
phlegmatic
43. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
ulterior
vigilance
chicanery
perpetrate
44. Repulsive hateful
odious
tepid
palpitate
variegate
45. Little depth not earnest
coda
shallow
foil
disdain
46. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
froward
supine
disparate
valiant
47. Something urging a person to action
goad
timorous
abraded
ostentation
48. Twisting force causing rotation
contumacious
sophistry
flaunting
torque
49. Complicated coiled twisted
convoluted
perish
alacrity
regicide
50. Catch sight of see something in the distance
rejuvenation
descry
prodigal
bigot