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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. Convincing firm belief
punctilious
conviction
skiff
riddle
2. A long passionate speech
ebullient
levity
efface
harangue
3. Boldness brashness intrepidness
barren
exploit
temerity
hoodwink
4. Large piece of cloth
poncho
halcyon
mundane
teetotal
5. A group or band of people
insipid
relapse
nonplused
cohort
6. Dishes made of baked clay
earthenware
crass
quiescence
forgery
7. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
shrewd
scurvy
epiphany
8. Self-confidence
recast
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
aplomb
supine
9. Rules establishing standards of conduct
precepts
divergence
temperate
stipulate
10. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
efficacy
felicitous
interdict
precursors
11. Puzzling person or thing
barren
riddle
verisimilitude
hauteur
12. Make calmer or quieter
distrait
wile
mollify
petrified
13. Bring up announce begin to talk about
molt
serration
maudlin
broach
14. Increase in density strength make laconic
mercurial
condense
contiguous
simper
15. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
assiduous
warmonger
miser
disallow
16. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
discrete
fledged
encomium
ambidextrous
17. Giving great attention to details
drowsiness
suffocate
meticulous
ingest
18. Mix combine unite societies
supplicate
aberration
amalgamate
gourmand
19. Draw move back wince
equipoise
obsequious
flinch
insensible
20. Hypnotize
effluvia
froward
mesmerize
infuse
21. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
quibble
coeval
simper
heretic
22. Forgery
timid
counterfeit
inclined
acclaimed
23. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
delineate
yeoman
malleable
harangue
24. Settle a quarrel restore peace
quell
hospitable
riddle
reconcile
25. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
apropos
antidote
profundity
insinuate
26. Brief
nascent
compunction
transitory
trudge
27. Get rid of pull up by the roots
desiccant
correlate
eradicate
defer
28. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
mince
forbearance
interim
apropos
29. Sharpness stinging quality
euphoria
pungency
atonement
rife
30. To gather and save to store up
inquest
trenchant
garner
fledgling
31. Getting farther apart from a point
taciturn
divergence
chastisement
legacy
32. Person much smaller the usual size
scurvy
dwarf
engrave
conciliatory
33. Get to the root of
hoi
weigh
plumb
subdue
34. Attract - lure
plea
foppish
entice
gnaw
35. Attractive on the surface but of little value
evasive
meretricious
heretic
striated
36. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
complaisance
avid
imperviousness
sobriquet
37. Bitter protest
fulmination
aberration
satiate
lucubrate
38. Quality of endurance or courage
thrift
sodden
temerity
mettle
39. Repayment death of Jesus
atonement
facile
introvert
muffler
40. Bad-tempered irritable
mesmerize
opprobrious
splenetic
cajole
41. Giving facts to support (statement)
implicate
demur
finicky
substantiation
42. Coming together and uniting into one substance
hapless
collusion
coalescing
ebullient
43. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
castigate
presumption
lope
forestall
44. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
dwarf
doggerel
castigation
welter
45. To tolerate endure
cogitate
intrepid
brook
duplicity
46. Quick changeable in character fleeting
woo
macabre
mercurial
matriculation
47. Crime of killing a king
encapsulate
enduring
regicide
taut
48. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
nibble
predilection
deferential
pileous
49. Measure hoe heavy something is
impute
weigh
fervor
prodigal
50. Summary or outline
petrify
synopsis
feral
brittle