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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Bending twisting
suffice
amalgamate
lithe
austere
2. Get back by payment compensate
redeem
pellucid
vituperate
chastisement
3. Strenuous effort
palpitate
disproof
fledged
arduous
4. Dried plum silly person
prune
consternation
incredulous
limp
5. Make beautiful
negligent
trepidation
embellish
involute
6. One who hates women/females
irresolute
levee
misogynist
shrewd
7. Substance used to absorb moisture
hauteur
conjoin
maladroit
desiccant
8. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
disinter
equipoise
halcyon
forgery
9. Strong convincing
adamant
cogent
flak
qualm
10. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
pivotal
connoisseur
trenchant
felon
11. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
waffle
asterisk
abysmal
penitent
12. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
incipient
pitfall
implosion
misogynist
13. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
prevaricate
balk
alacrity
sullied
14. Strong energetic
dwarf
vigorous
welter
trifling
15. Discover by searching search
untoward
ferret
argot
mendacity
16. Insincere talk/jargon
pellucid
agile
peremptory
cant
17. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
reiterate
trickle
forestall
pulchritude
18. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
plaque
deplete
severance
dote
19. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
impassive
plea
finical
obtain
20. With attack violently
viscous
assail
doggerel
edacious
21. Something that is puzzling
grandiloquent
enigma
sequence
untoward
22. Slander aspersion
calumny
evince
tractable
efface
23. Easily done
churl
eradicate
facile
augury
24. Little known abstruse
effrontery
recondite
implicate
gnaw
25. Become quiet or less active
noisome
savor
reactionary
lull
26. Take in by swallowing
epitome
ingest
denouement
epithet
27. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
assail
illicit
ire
welter
28. Write in scholarly fashion
ruddy
flamboyant
extinguish
lucubrate
29. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
grovel
impromptu
recondite
volatile
30. Dishonorable common undignified
indelible
overweening
ignoble
extant
31. Unoriginal obtained from another source
forge
impromptu
arrant
derivative
32. Wishing to do evil
shunt
expostulate
malevolence
cadge
33. Self-love
narcissism
splenetic
fixate
idiosyncrasy
34. Using pompous words
finicky
grandiloquent
shallow
enervate
35. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
extirpate
germane
indulgent
espouse
36. Steel tool for shaping materials
tadpole
chisel
contrite
churl
37. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
phlegmatic
impediment
lugubrious
harangue
38. Set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
waft
ascetic
diatribe
exoneration
39. Omen sign
augury
repast
rant
proliferate
40. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
cognizant
quixotic
slate
calipers
41. Disintegration looseness in morals
tangential
plummet
conundrum
dissolution
42. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
complaisance
demagogue
bewilder
deplete
43. Tiring because too long
obdurate
incumbents
prolix
muffler
44. Containing warning
equable
approbation
alloy
admonitory
45. Propriety properness
limp
jabber
decorum
tassel
46. Red and healthy
balk
rubicund
epiphany
glut
47. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
preponderance
sanctimony
hoax
flout
48. Harmful
noxious
wag
discountenance
nadir
49. Cut roughly hired horse
saturnine
hack
alleviate
presage
50. Agreement or harmony
glut
falter
concord
auxiliary