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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. Without taste or flavor
insipid
ruddy
evasive
obtuse
2. Disobedient
fracas
abraded
epicurean
recalcitrant
3. Coming together and uniting into one substance
moderation
apartheid
insensible
coalescing
4. Dull and slow
grave
acclaimed
torpid
pith
5. Warmth of feelings earnestness
scurvy
ferret
fervor
chagrin
6. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
ensconce
astute
engender
7. Treat with contempt
stray
tonic
endeavor
snub
8. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
dupe
trickle
encomium
convoluted
9. Calmness of temperament
accrue
equanimity
sedulous
introvert
10. To make hard rocklike
ail
palate
duress
petrify
11. Repeal or annul by authority
streak
propagation
premature
abrogate
12. Blessing
paucity
shallow
benison
aberration
13. Person who travels regularly
commuter
fracas
implicate
redoubtable
14. Liking to give hospitality
ford
hospitable
obtrusive
irrevocable
15. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
palatial
woo
boggle
austere
16. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
gregarious
bedizen
scorch
lustrous
17. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
valorous
picaresque
retrograde
concoct
18. Causing no harm
recast
innocuous
partisan
rejuvenation
19. Make hard and without feeling
meticulous
ascend
sere
ascetic
20. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
pious
somatic
inchoate
frantic
21. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
inculcate
upbraid
officious
curmudgeon
22. Likely to be useful for a purpose
lavish
expedient
daunt
doleful
23. Put pour fill
blatant
infuse
malinger
flak
24. Spending using unwillingly
fledgling
eulogy
foray
stingy
25. Intended to instruct
eschew
tonic
didactic
preclude
26. Insulting tending to damage
derogatory
aloof
grievous
cant
27. Truth
adulteration
sinuous
equivocate
veracity
28. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
recreancy
penchant
denigrate
fetter
29. A supporting bar
ardor
apprehensive
stipulate
strut
30. Not soled with hole
nexus
hollow
unencumbered
sobriety
31. To venture
embezzle
extempore
foray
alcove
32. Lacking solidarity - strength
fatuous
skiff
flimsy
matriculation
33. Repeal/annul/cancel
savor
livid
elicit
rescind
34. Agreeably pungent stimulating
equilibrium
chauvinist
transient
piquant
35. Rise fly high
warmonger
levity
coy
soar
36. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
meretricious
imperviousness
wend
barren
37. Magnificent
trickle
sumptuous
sublime
simper
38. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
pluck
sponge
inchoate
brass
39. Strong inclination a liking
slack
exhaustive
inculcate
penchant
40. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
endorse
nebulous
irksome
liberality
41. A group or band of people
cohort
punitive
inimical
abet
42. Disintegration looseness in morals
dissolution
benign
perilous
gust
43. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
colloquial
harbinger
admonitory
desultory
44. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
stipulate
figurehead
temerity
secular
45. Make a lower bid then somebody else
trifling
recondite
fret
underbid
46. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
implacable
impassive
engrossing
suffice
47. Make calmer or quieter
mollify
squander
eradicate
burgeon
48. Of the same period coexisting
coeval
refractory
torque
irascible
49. Welcomed with shouts and approval
preponderance
peripatetic
acclaimed
beatify
50. Physical of or for the body
corporeal
malevolence
foray
abhor