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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. Briefly without delay
exscind
quiescence
summarily
scent
2. Publicly mock or ridicule
negligent
foil
coagulation
lampoon
3. One who hates women/females
misogynist
dolt
transitory
propitious
4. Cut roughly hired horse
forge
rant
turbulence
hack
5. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
sanction
palpability
contrite
beguile
6. Omen sign
augury
ostentation
cordial
crass
7. Exuberance outburst of feeling
veritable
abhor
ebullience
liberality
8. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
drone
graze
inane
trenchant
9. Bad-tempered person
pivotal
curmudgeon
somersault
imperturbable
10. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
suffocate
turmoil
resilience
voluptuous
11. Epidemic
entangle
vituperate
abut
endemic
12. Widespread
insurrection
distrait
rife
pith
13. Cheat make a fool of
forgery
personable
repast
dupe
14. Frantic frenzied
bedizen
ascetic
frenetic
malleable
15. Bring into harmony
nonplused
agglutinate
penchant
attune
16. Promise or swear to give up
baleful
sketchy
abjure
trickle
17. Polloi the masses the rabble
burgeon
expostulate
mellifluous
hoi
18. Production of a desired result
petrified
nadir
mundane
efficacy
19. Fix take up secure metal pin
heinous
ferocity
depredation
rivet
20. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
disrobe
peremptory
verisimilitude
heinous
21. Protest against express disapproval of
articulate
deprecate
vacillation
didactic
22. Containing warning
exculpate
admonitory
limn
pest
23. Get somebody to do something by kindness
plumb
coax
ignominious
felicitous
24. Feeling of regret for one's action
equivocal
condone
desuetude
compunction
25. Easily broken
pivotal
desuetude
brittle
dearth
26. Crouch/settle without permission
skit
knit
squat
smolder
27. Greatness in number strength weight
aggravate
preponderance
conceit
veritable
28. Change direction
retard
veer
flout
distraught
29. Quick judging and understanding
incongruous
ubiquitous
recompense
perspicacity
30. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
sheath
gush
bilge
argot
31. Gather facts in small quantities
glean
misogynist
discreet
reproach
32. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
garner
submerge
didactic
floe
33. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
orison
drone
vehemence
brittle
34. Soaked saturated
sodden
conspicuous
inveterate
dud
35. Be faithful to endure
abide
expedient
topple
sententious
36. Restore something to better condition
insularity
renovate
pristine
impromptu
37. Worthless outside part of anything
mendicant
mercurial
mendacity
husk
38. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
wanton
torque
denigrate
39. Formidable causing fear
redoubtable
didactic
cornucopia
serrated
40. Meticulous
dwarf
odium
churl
punctilious
41. Eager and cheerful readiness
infuse
alacrity
efface
inimical
42. Tiresome
contiguous
irksome
brook
aver
43. Burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
turbulence
ascend
agglutinate
cumbersome
44. Become quiet or less active
sodden
effrontery
lull
resilience
45. Make or become stiff and solid
inferno
congeal
reticent
censure
46. Keep the memory of
talon
plea
commemorate
parsimonious
47. Perfect/make perfect/complete
consummate
abut
sanction
credulous
48. Take the whole attention - enslave
vitiate
sodden
enthral
forge
49. Surgically clean
mellifluous
partisan
aseptic
desuetude
50. To hate to detest
imperturbable
abhor
synopsis
distraught