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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. Easily shocked excessively modest
stigmatize
shrewd
cant
prudish
2. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
barrage
hew
exorbitant
forbear
3. Customers
clientele
ameliorate
retinue
suffice
4. Taste flavor something
savor
cant
pedestrian
abysmal
5. Rebel nonconformist
sagacious
waffle
maverick
ail
6. A sheet of floating ice
dote
shunt
sobriquet
floe
7. Pedant authority on a subject
ecumenical
puissance
abdication
pundit
8. Avoid
infuriate
salubrious
eschew
adamant
9. Loyalty accuracy
fidelity
taut
censure
presumption
10. Extreme poverty
snub
penury
inimical
pious
11. Merry person
wag
palate
pinch
barrage
12. Write one's name on the back of
rave
ferret
endorse
turbulence
13. Challenged to be doubted
pervade
recitals
impugned
heterogeneous
14. Surgically clean
appease
aseptic
abeyance
resort
15. Convincing firm belief
sidestep
distrait
conviction
waffle
16. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
finical
baneful
clamor
profligate
17. Careful forethought
vituperate
skiff
stickler
prudence
18. Making unpure poorer in quality
heed
dexterity
adulteration
sagacious
19. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
undulate
submerge
impermeable
hospitable
20. Strength
intersperse
puissance
rejuvenation
provident
21. Distracted violently upset in mind
tenacity
glimmer
distraught
ruffian
22. Inclined to indulge
ostentation
indulgent
veneration
quixotic
23. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
ostensible
foppish
perish
abeyance
24. Fearless brave undaunted
volubility
intrepid
shallow
snub
25. Of the power of forming a solution
defiance
repulsive
extricable
solvent
26. Having both of two contrary meanings
ambivalent
odium
hoodwink
incredulous
27. No longer active
offhand
pinch
extinct
mettle
28. Demeanor
mien
revere
obtain
efficacy
29. Paint portray
limn
complaisance
shard
reiterate
30. Sluggish dull not tight
procrastination
slack
obsequious
floe
31. Person dishonestly claiming to something
sophistry
wag
vestige
quack
32. Transparent gauzy
apotheosis
refractory
concur
diaphanous
33. Threatening
fledged
mince
transient
ominous
34. Neat formal
laudatory
prim
blatant
superimpose
35. Magnificent
incise
flaunting
froward
sumptuous
36. Treat with contempt
condone
cornucopia
grovel
snub
37. Attractive on the surface but of little value
meretricious
fledgling
abysmal
conjoin
38. Increasing the number spreading extending
synopsis
propagation
beguile
coda
39. Happening from time to time
sporadic
appease
homiletics
rebus
40. Bold
audacious
fixate
baleful
abdication
41. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
malleable
fagged
grave
intransigence
42. Conquer
vanquish
approbation
baneful
coagulation
43. Done as a duty without care
weigh
perfunctory
sublime
condense
44. Beginning
distraught
cloture
incipient
gloat
45. Not pretended sincere
myriad
unfeigned
petulant
brazen
46. Alarm excited state of mind
allegiance
trepidation
predominate
taut
47. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
exigency
insipid
sundry
48. Swallow up
quack
tenuous
engulf
antidote
49. Giving great attention to details
prevaricate
demur
agglutinate
meticulous
50. Opening broken place breaking
breach
eradicate
countervail
earthenware