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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. Temporary fleeting
transient
hallow
accretion
soggy
2. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
abet
veneration
suffocate
nibble
3. Active quick-moving
agile
sheath
piquant
misanthrope
4. Disobedient
moribund
recalcitrant
retinue
corporeal
5. Brave
dawdler
valorous
turgid
levee
6. Make quiet or calm
corporeal
suppliant
appease
travesty
7. Official duties
repine
adamant
punctilious
incumbents
8. Prevent make impossible
defiance
mite
noxious
preclude
9. Soothe pacify calm
fledgling
subpoena
placate
lachrymose
10. Hence - awkward
gauche
dogmatic
latent
contentious
11. Steel tool for shaping materials
decree
remonstrate
chisel
involute
12. Uncompromising
philanthropist
intransigent
libertine
taut
13. Weak/unsteady light
thwart
glimmer
cogitate
catalyst
14. Offense resentment
verdant
umbrage
ambiguous
temperance
15. Shameless immorality
jibe
profligacy
disparate
ambivalent
16. Worsen diminish in value
hypocrisy
impair
finicky
smolder
17. Approval (by authority) penalty
fret
feud
wince
sanction
18. Ready to believe things
credulous
alleviate
temperate
aversion
19. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
brash
apprise
pusillanimous
valiant
20. Large pile of wood for burning
pyre
divergence
dissent
ambivalent
21. Perfect/make perfect/complete
patron
suppress
inferno
consummate
22. Delicate way of dealing with a situation
vigilance
jibe
cabal
finesse
23. Quick changeable in character fleeting
arrant
enunciate
mercurial
judicious
24. Forgive
infuriate
ambidextrous
condone
rebuff
25. Person guilty of murder
repudiate
felon
exigency
lassitude
26. Insubordinate rebellious
contumacious
cordon
gush
forbearance
27. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
anguish
desuetude
insensible
obviate
28. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
expiation
cabal
resilience
conjoin
29. Present but not yet active developed or visible
tout
latent
recuperate
irate
30. Traveling about wandering
quail
spear
peregrination
brittle
31. Short piece of humorous writing
indulge
boggle
prevalent
skit
32. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
distraught
indulge
laudatory
abet
33. To entangle the state of affairs
labyrinthine
conviction
neophyte
derision
34. Involving or using conversation.
renowned
colloquial
somersault
tenuous
35. Made up of different kinds
heterogeneous
purvey
overhaul
uncouth
36. Magnificent
palatial
sidestep
colander
chisel
37. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
molt
lassitude
interdict
decorum
38. Make angry
incense
savor
epitome
chagrin
39. Substance that shrinks
tarnished
tamper
astringent
grave
40. Rising of people to open resistance to
manacle
truce
insurrection
imminent
41. Untidy
presage
disheveled
indulge
acclaimed
42. To make holy consecrate
haughty
recompense
hallow
libel
43. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
recuperate
gossamer
gouge
assail
44. Ridicule mockery deriding
antidote
frenetic
derision
recuperate
45. Warmth of feelings earnestness
fervor
peregrination
clot
tortuous
46. Not pretended sincere
lassitude
entreat
profuse
unfeigned
47. Brave -behaves well with women
imperious
gallant
cloture
permeate
48. Using pompous words
grandiloquent
retinue
eclat
saturnine
49. Person who tells anecdotes
hollow
raconteur
prudence
intransigence
50. Diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
idiosyncrasy
antithetical
morbid
moribund