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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. Complicated and embarrassing situation
imbroglio
talon
mendacity
sodden
2. Arrangement to give something at death
bequest
figurehead
harrow
ameliorate
3. Fairly good but not very good
congeal
overweening
verve
middling
4. To be stained or discredited
clientele
implicate
sullied
appease
5. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
machination
peripatetic
inclined
6. Overcome bring under control
subdue
knit
blithe
obfuscate
7. Hinder get in the way of
predominate
summarily
rueful
impede
8. Draw move back wince
misanthrope
sporadic
flinch
encapsulate
9. Doubtful uncertain
impediment
occluded
reactionary
ambiguous
10. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
pine
figurehead
quandary
acumen
11. To hesitate raise objections
heterogeneous
astute
demur
boisterous
12. Repulsive hateful
censure
odious
reprobate
flimsy
13. Walk heavily
ruddy
trudge
garner
disproof
14. Too eager to obey or serve
obsequious
mesmerize
squalid
fringe
15. Boldness brashness intrepidness
deplete
temerity
bolster
inundate
16. To great to be described in words
writ
rumple
ensign
ineffable
17. Dig up from the earth
berate
perch
disinter
macerate
18. Disown refuse to accept or pay
equivocal
repudiate
predominate
intransigent
19. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
chicanery
burnish
duplicity
collusion
20. In the highest degree
dislodge
garrulous
arrant
glib
21. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
uncouth
effluvia
equilibrium
suffice
22. Lost brightness
rotund
treacherous
taut
tarnished
23. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
drowsiness
ossify
temerity
philistine
24. Act with excessive enthusiasm
rave
lope
endorse
cravat
25. Speech lecture
maverick
noisome
retinue
discourse
26. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
epitome
striated
covetous
contentious
27. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
ignominious
extenuate
elicit
demagogue
28. Threatening
ominous
prosaic
fecund
homiletics
29. Not soled with hole
anguish
hollow
coax
redoubtable
30. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
belligerent
fixate
palpitate
itinerate
31. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
incessant
mundane
itinerate
obtrusive
32. Self-love
abide
wan
narcissism
bellicose
33. Responsilibilty -burden
abrogate
baneful
implicate
onus
34. Person who has given help
benefactor
asperity
exhaustive
conceal
35. Situated beyond
doggerel
ulterior
gossamer
volubility
36. A beginner
tyro
temperate
flaunting
impermeable
37. Increase in density strength make laconic
indomitable
condense
warmonger
ingest
38. Shortage
bedizen
burgeon
legacy
dearth
39. A sheet of floating ice
stint
floe
incite
presumption
40. Dishonesty
cogent
toady
mendacity
simper
41. Claw of a bird of prey
elaborate
pious
portent
talon
42. To shackle put in chains
disrobe
emaciate
fetter
pucker
43. Hardship
blandness
pusillanimous
ferocity
privation
44. Essential part force soft liquid substance
torpid
pith
skit
stride
45. Be out of view ready to attack
lurk
impervious
perch
obdurate
46. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
secular
reticent
deviance
recompense
47. Song of praise or triumph
ire
impugned
heinous
paean
48. Without preparation or forethought
credulous
offhand
shrill
recondite
49. Arrogance
presumption
ingest
poncho
sawdust
50. Temporary fleeting
serration
detumescence
transient
plaque