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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. Brave -behaves well with women
balk
edible
impede
gallant
2. Exuberance outburst of feeling
hew
garrulous
ebullience
disseminate
3. Forcefulness
endearing
vehemence
avow
secular
4. Calm and peaceful
halcyon
recreancy
ecumenical
entangle
5. To cause to adhere - as with glue
renowned
ineptitude
agglutinate
daunt
6. Cheat make a fool of
dupe
infuse
vacillation
impecunious
7. Authority written order guarantee
putrefaction
obdurate
belligerent
warrant
8. Sensitiveness
reminiscent
flout
susceptibility
credulous
9. Practicing self-denial austere stark
coagulation
ascetic
cornucopia
brook
10. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
caustic
incite
rebus
tout
11. Physical beauty
pulchritude
endearing
fervor
disseminate
12. Lost brightness
tarnished
exoneration
caustic
suffocate
13. Steady regular
bereft
stigma
equable
grumble
14. Inclined to fighting
writ
bellicose
dogmatic
pucker
15. Be faithful to endure
onus
abide
halcyon
attenuate
16. Easily injured broken or destroyed
fragile
felon
topple
extricable
17. Reserved; indifferent
tangential
aloof
engrave
ensconce
18. That gives warning or information
telltale
timid
rave
gullible
19. Common
resilience
prevalent
foray
centurion
20. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
deferential
trudge
blase
interim
21. Hinder get in the way of
haughty
cavalcade
rapacious
impede
22. Dethronement depositing
verve
deposition
idiosyncrasy
lull
23. Ready and smooth but not sincere
glib
complaisant
hoi
fawn
24. Complicated and embarrassing situation
imbroglio
requite
sporadic
taunt
25. Scold upbraid
torque
superfluous
reproach
dupe
26. Loyalty accuracy
dogmatic
fidelity
coagulation
opprobrious
27. Strong dislike
sophisticated
foster
chastened
aversion
28. Prevent from being known put an end to
coruscate
suppress
vigilant
tadpole
29. To chastise correct by punishing
castigate
guile
felicitous
heretic
30. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
lumber
prodigal
extempore
malleable
31. Living in societies liking the company
gregarious
occluded
burnish
glimmer
32. Tactless clumsy
suffocate
prim
grumble
maladroit
33. Be guilty commit (a crime)
perpetrate
resuscitation
whimsical
expatiate
34. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
truce
petrified
precepts
abate
35. Trying to please; obliging
complaisant
figurehead
nibble
bequest
36. Impress deeply
sidestep
fervor
abysmal
engrave
37. Complicated coiled twisted
eclat
cryptic
convoluted
blandishment
38. Attention/give notice to
provoke
impassive
heed
eulogy
39. Regular customer person who gives support
consequential
aberration
patron
intrepid
40. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
ineffable
ramify
sting
buoyant
41. Move along with long strides
lope
stingy
vitiate
scorch
42. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
simper
disingenuous
peccadillo
intrepid
43. Propriety properness
decorum
sluggard
sidestep
heed
44. At be discontented with
repine
entreat
plethora
emote
45. Rich and deep plump and round
qualm
rotund
pine
penitent
46. Belong as a part have reference
sequence
pitfall
virago
pertain
47. Bold
punctilious
ascend
audacious
chicanery
48. (person nation) waging war
lassitude
dissolution
belligerent
nibble
49. Describe somebody scornfully
cogent
stigmatize
puissance
fallacious
50. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
pliant
infuse
rueful
ambivalent