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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. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
susceptibility
feint
chastened
austere
2. Make or become stiff and solid
corroboration
centurion
grumble
congeal
3. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
ingest
malapropism
philistine
redeem
4. Reproving a person for his faults
sermon
introspection
nebulous
rotund
5. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
maudlin
effluvia
cant
revere
6. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
ensconce
concoct
inculcate
ensign
7. Trouble disturbance
virago
patron
turmoil
underbid
8. Make angry vax
concord
credulous
provoke
boggle
9. Blunt/stupid
adorn
obtuse
conciliatory
astute
10. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
aberration
beatify
august
refine
11. Giving great attention to details
meticulous
discrete
consume
prevalent
12. Bunch of threads
tassel
ruddy
erratic
occluded
13. Flood cover by overflowing
intransigence
inundate
forbearance
boisterous
14. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
surfeit
timid
desiccant
gloat
15. Get somebody to do something by kindness
elicit
coax
provoke
incessant
16. Stupid fellow
yeoman
predominate
vigilance
dolt
17. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
extinguish
stolid
disconcert
pique
18. Burden things that get on the way of
encumbrance
pry
lumber
insouciant
19. Able to fly trained experienced
august
disingenuous
fledged
constrict
20. Traveling about wandering
belligerent
pitfall
peregrination
daunt
21. Soothe pacify calm
churlish
mischievous
skiff
placate
22. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
shard
secular
discrete
recreancy
23. Pretend
feint
fluke
contumacious
ambiguous
24. Looking back on past
retrospective
prune
hush
benefactor
25. Use until none remains
endeavor
vitiate
superfluous
deplete
26. Make shorter then was planned
astute
curtail
quail
roll
27. Merry person
wag
decree
maverick
pest
28. Common
holster
coax
vain
prevalent
29. Sealed by fusion
hermetic
woo
parley
subsume
30. Affirm something to be true
aver
coeval
vituperate
hypocrisy
31. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
fledgling
effluvia
ascribe
32. Lessen the severity of
consummate
palliate
ossify
ambivalent
33. Aud a person of something
inveigh
stipulate
mulct
pith
34. No use person something that fails
agog
spurn
dud
surfeit
35. Attention/give notice to
penchant
mollify
heed
mundane
36. Strange act or idea
temperate
vagary
succor
pith
37. Something urging a person to action
preen
goad
compunction
contumacious
38. Make or become pure cultural
convoke
renovate
refine
maudlin
39. Waste away through sorrow or illness
pine
prevalent
stint
nonchalant
40. Talk vaguely and without much result
inveigh
waffle
nostrum
premature
41. To hesitate raise objections
centurion
demur
harbinger
valiant
42. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
gust
macerate
gourmand
nostrum
43. Display to obtain admiration or envy
alcove
stray
ostentation
pious
44. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
feint
odious
extenuate
expatiate
45. Sentence within another one something separated
plunge
complaisance
barren
parenthesis
46. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
esoteric
ramify
soggy
livid
47. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
impugned
deferential
bilge
reproach
48. Angry
subdue
corroboration
irate
engrave
49. Based on error
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
fallacious
volatile
equipoise
50. Strenuous effort
breach
arduous
preen
vacuity