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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. Smell favor reputation
perish
odium
odor
incite
2. Gather facts in small quantities
coeval
glean
glut
epistle
3. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
hypocrisy
boggle
secular
avid
4. Arousing sensual pleasures
voluptuous
gainsay
embellish
requite
5. Tiring because too long
skit
grumble
prolix
ferocity
6. Depth
profundity
stigma
coalescing
finical
7. Denounce as dangerous
lassitude
flamboyant
proscribe
connotation
8. Forgery
tangential
counterfeit
embellish
tadpole
9. Looking back on past
moribund
calisthenics
retrospective
beatify
10. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
presage
subpoena
permeate
obtuse
11. Extremely pleasing to taste
ramify
temperate
ambrosial
esoteric
12. Widespread
conspicuous
abide
rife
arrant
13. Aud a person of something
mulct
benevolence
vacillation
aspersion
14. Over-high opinion of too much pride
quiescence
unearth
conceit
disproof
15. Worldly having contempt for God
wile
penitent
profane
raffish
16. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
itinerate
obtrusive
deprecate
germane
17. Various miscellaneous separate
tyro
empirical
sadastic
sundry
18. To be stained or discredited
turquoise
sullied
invective
finicky
19. Easily injured broken or destroyed
portent
fragile
vindictive
prudish
20. Disapprove of
raconteur
complaisant
decry
cursory
21. Hand or swing loosely
redeem
dangle
equilibrium
stygian
22. Suffer the loss of something
incumbents
liberality
reciprocity
forfeit
23. To complain
cordial
grumble
sober
dogmatic
24. Severe criticism
excoriation
puissance
fledged
quiescence
25. Close connection relationship
scent
surcharge
affinity
exhaustive
26. Serious requiring consideration
savant
apt
prevalent
grave
27. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
muffler
tassel
incipient
sordid
28. Extreme poverty
penury
clientele
thwart
embezzle
29. Settle a quarrel restore peace
reconcile
astringent
pine
graze
30. Punishing
disseminate
punitive
adulteration
meticulous
31. Showing self-control
soar
fetter
temperate
venal
32. Weak/unsteady light
glimmer
conjoin
foppish
illicit
33. Sad gloomy miserable
ruddy
entreat
indistinct
dismal
34. Incapable of failure or error
renovate
foolproof
convoluted
consternation
35. Eagerly desirous
cumbersome
pileous
insouciant
covetous
36. Lack of seriousness
levity
quaff
duplicity
penitent
37. Too economical miserly
pungency
serrated
parsimonious
plunge
38. Likely to be useful for a purpose
verve
foil
expedient
inimical
39. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
blandness
prudish
pedestrian
detumescence
40. Way out exit
drawl
mendacity
transitory
egress
41. A riddle dilemma enigma
ostracism
dulcet
conundrum
augury
42. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
petrify
obstreperous
cabal
inured
43. Ill-tempered unsocial
morose
taciturn
vain
somersault
44. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
defiance
malleable
verdant
impetuous
45. Swallow up
implosion
engulf
slake
grave
46. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
foible
noxious
avid
interdict
47. Still in existence
fragile
pillage
aberration
extant
48. Noisy quarrel
benign
toady
soar
fracas
49. Affirm something to be true
mite
aver
maladroit
grovel
50. Situated beyond
telltale
ulterior
raconteur
extralegal