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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. Witness/evidence
testiness
gourmand
tonic
indigenous
2. Convincing firm belief
efface
reciprocity
conviction
nostrum
3. Complicated and embarrassing situation
imbroglio
effrontery
retinue
glib
4. A model example or pattern
coddle
paradigm
avow
splenetic
5. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
ale
broach
flax
indistinct
6. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
moderation
brass
ascribe
vigilant
7. Plundering
tepid
depredation
atonement
diatribe
8. Speak comprehensively become wider large
enmity
corroboration
rebus
dilate
9. FALSE counterfeit
verve
exculpate
spurious
sublime
10. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
austere
subpoena
moderation
churlish
11. Fluent
voluble
truculence
malevolence
perch
12. Treat as a famous person
discrete
restive
lionize
unfeigned
13. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
gauche
counterfeit
presumption
14. To distress create stress or torment
harrow
entangle
grave
forage
15. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
cognizant
expostulate
umbrage
precursors
16. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
solvent
vigilance
mettle
dubious
17. Haughtiness
jagged
hauteur
ebullient
belligerent
18. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
corporeal
grovel
insinuate
husk
19. Feeling of regret for one's action
abstruse
foster
compunction
cogitate
20. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
disingenuous
servile
craven
garner
21. Go or come up
germane
preclude
exscind
ascend
22. Dismal - mourful
variegate
sodden
qualm
doleful
23. Direct opposing
fallacious
ferment
antithetical
refulgent
24. Without preparation
palpitate
presage
peremptory
impromptu
25. A complex ornate design
grandiloquent
arabesque
rave
riddle
26. One who turns towards himself
endorse
relapse
introvert
turbid
27. Abundant supply
lackluster
impede
surcharge
cornucopia
28. Something urging a person to action
quaff
goad
taut
repudiate
29. Blacken belittle sully defame
telltale
ferret
denigrate
cryptic
30. Excessive admiration of
sash
idolatry
sawdust
inured
31. Coming together and uniting into one substance
ferret
bewilder
coalescing
lament
32. Take back as being FALSE give up
benison
defiance
venal
recant
33. Person who hates mankind
wanton
misanthrope
meretricious
apropos
34. Stone used for sharpening tools
emote
hone
rivet
guile
35. Be enough
suffice
castigate
squander
commodious
36. Beat hard
luculent
belabor
ossify
duress
37. Celebrated famous
foil
divulge
frugal
renowned
38. Frugal looking to the future
tamper
provident
iconoclast
arabesque
39. To beg to get by begging
didactic
cadge
sanctimony
interdict
40. Make a lower bid then somebody else
quibble
obtrusive
underbid
equipoise
41. Stubborn narrow-minded person
fulsome
bigot
philistine
combustion
42. Majestic venerable
garner
august
stymie
volatile
43. Flattery coaxing
blandishment
abrogate
judicious
aleck
44. Meant as a joke
jocular
obtain
strut
scribble
45. (person nation) waging war
ignoble
onerous
maul
belligerent
46. Trifling/worthless
constrict
nugatory
bogus
thwart
47. Corrosive; sarcastic
concur
stipulate
clamor
vitriolic
48. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
onus
dearth
pious
lassitude
49. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
refine
impervious
crush
sublime
50. Increasing the number spreading extending
presentiment
frantic
propagation
wan