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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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1. Be faithful to endure
strut
reticence
prim
abide
2. Speak distinctly connect by joints
stray
conspicuous
teetotal
articulate
3. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
lionize
calumny
waft
jibe
4. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
ostentation
inchoate
lampoon
balk
5. Urgent essential
precursory
imperative
flax
dynamo
6. Favorable successful prosperous
credulity
auspicious
pyre
quandary
7. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
precursors
defalcate
shunned
pedestrian
8. Relying on experiment
plunge
beatify
empirical
equipoise
9. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
veneer
fagged
surfeit
beatify
10. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
connote
multifarious
undulate
epiphany
11. Waste away through sorrow or illness
discreet
resuscitation
placate
pine
12. Attract - lure
entice
seminal
stipple
brash
13. Calm not capable of being excited
imperturbable
rarefy
perjury
submerge
14. Obtain by threats violence
glut
extort
myriad
blandness
15. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
engulf
recast
shunt
didactic
16. Carved image on the prow of a ship
figurehead
irascible
blithe
nexus
17. Granting of privileges in return for similar
harangue
rant
reciprocity
refractory
18. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
obloquy
sententious
drone
disingenuous
19. Agreeably pungent stimulating
piquant
expatiate
summarily
salubrious
20. Plunder (especially in war)
mundane
pariah
hypocrisy
pillage
21. Easily seen remarkable
conspicuous
deposition
soot
berate
22. Put something on the top
gainsay
superimpose
condone
plethora
23. Skill (esp. in handling)
dexterity
divergence
retard
curriculum
24. Fall plunge steeply
trite
stint
salubrious
plummet
25. Person who attacks popular beliefs
astringent
iconoclast
dissemble
transgress
26. One who loves mankind
inimical
philanthropist
coerce
vagary
27. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
contrite
retrograde
phlegmatic
pulchritude
28. Punishment
chastisement
quandary
forgery
mince
29. In a dying state; near death
cling
stint
moribund
scent
30. Based on error
fallacious
stanch
astringent
vitriolic
31. Sticky/semi-fluid
precursory
constrict
irascible
viscous
32. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
arabesque
prolix
belligerent
cantankerous
33. Wishing to do evil
malevolence
expatiate
mercurial
consequential
34. Settle a quarrel restore peace
judicious
procrastination
raconteur
reconcile
35. Crouch/settle without permission
transitory
foray
squat
fecund
36. Instruct; correct morally
trickle
hush
edify
truce
37. Uncommunicativeness
reticence
quotidian
deferential
apartheid
38. Get something inquire too curiously
ostracism
gallant
pry
tonic
39. Nurture care for
imperturbable
pyre
foster
tautology
40. State of growing vigorously being full of life
exuberance
vilify
luminary
trite
41. Move force from the place occupied
dislodge
conciliatory
yeoman
trickle
42. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
preen
erudite
incise
shun
43. Deep-rooted. long-established
inveterate
centurion
remonstrate
immutable
44. Bunch of threads
obloquy
tassel
recuperate
enervate
45. Aud a person of something
mulct
ambrosial
inscrutable
terse
46. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
plaque
dereliction
legacy
quibble
47. Easily shocked excessively modest
perch
prudish
apprehensive
severance
48. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
profligate
resilience
gust
infuriate
49. Easy and painless death
commodious
strive
euthanasia
countenance
50. Producing sleep
castigate
tassel
soporific
esoteric