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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. Accumulate
foil
stray
accrue
pillage
2. Statement that damages reputation
maudlin
libel
divestiture
garrulous
3. Tiny bits of wood
sawdust
pinch
obtrusive
aloof
4. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
lionize
engulf
sporadic
indistinct
5. Give greatly needed support
bolster
deferential
prodigal
affable
6. Careful forethought
prudence
crease
germane
parley
7. Person who has given help
raffish
irate
reproach
benefactor
8. A quack remedy an untested cure
animosity
rescind
nostrum
veer
9. Cheerful person
ruffian
aseptic
mendicant
extrovert
10. Self-love
narcissism
maudlin
ameliorate
eulogy
11. Native
indigenous
centurion
aplomb
plumb
12. Glut
trudge
plethora
fledged
ramify
13. Incapable of failure or error
prim
dud
foolproof
drawl
14. Quick hurried
cursory
stingy
sponge
sinuous
15. Situated beyond
proliferate
perpetrate
wanton
ulterior
16. One who considers himself smarter than others
servile
extricable
aleck
beguile
17. Irritable easily angered
inquest
irascible
demur
conundrum
18. Move quickly suddenly and with force
middling
plunge
forbear
dupe
19. Poverty
indigence
minatory
telltale
pitfall
20. Move force from the place occupied
deter
soar
tenuous
dislodge
21. Worked out with much care in great detail
purvey
elaborate
fluster
assiduous
22. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
engender
pungency
pinch
23. Convincing firm belief
auspicious
conviction
contentious
perspicacity
24. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
halcyon
edible
summarily
conundrum
25. Substance become excited
broach
discreet
truce
ferment
26. Paint portray
trepidation
tortuous
infuriate
limn
27. Severe punishment
deluge
castigation
transitory
telltale
28. Having a toothed edge
apt
serrated
fragrant
idyll
29. Change direction
prodigious
malleable
wince
veer
30. Blessing
scribble
benison
alcove
truce
31. Be unsteady and overturn
garble
evoke
equilibrium
topple
32. Lying; habitually dishonest
forbearance
latent
legacy
mendacious
33. Warm and sincere
pusillanimous
cordial
subdue
palliate
34. Be admitted enter a university as a student
ambiguous
reminiscent
ebullience
matriculation
35. To chastise correct by punishing
fetter
castigate
divergence
vain
36. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
waffle
ensign
truce
sting
37. Unresisting submissive
resigned
introspection
curriculum
imbroglio
38. Repay give in return
requite
abeyance
impermeable
extinguish
39. Substance that causes speeding up
obtain
conciliatory
plead
catalyst
40. Hence - awkward
consequential
gauche
vigilant
dawdler
41. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
veneer
redeem
orison
pristine
42. That can be freed
benefactor
felon
extricable
impermeable
43. Incapable of being discovered or understood
bereft
ascetic
succor
inscrutable
44. Brief summary representative example a typical model
repudiate
epitome
malinger
obviate
45. Aud a person of something
mulct
sawdust
tamper
mettle
46. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
chary
defalcate
volubility
subdue
47. Address a court of law as an advocate
disdain
snare
inasmuch
plead
48. One who loves mankind
chastened
provident
extricable
philanthropist
49. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
insensible
endorse
encapsulate
complaisance
50. Crouch/settle without permission
implosion
squat
chastened
beguile