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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Anticipatory fear; premonition
veer
shrewd
reticence
presentiment
2. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
rabble
chaste
rant
ambivalent
3. Show much fondness center one's attention
gerontocracy
dote
ossify
putrefaction
4. Stinking
frenetic
fetid
repast
bask
5. Elation state of pleasant excitement
irate
reprobate
glean
euphoria
6. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conceit
lavish
ardor
sponge
7. Suggestion in addition to
plummet
connotation
gaucherie
undulate
8. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
propitious
manacle
flop
shun
9. Make angry vax
goad
urbane
provoke
morbid
10. Small sin small weakness in one's character
peccadillo
swerve
premature
calumny
11. Lacking strength walking unevenly
serrated
heed
limp
vilify
12. One who considers himself smarter than others
soggy
aleck
ostensible
valorous
13. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
engrossing
preclude
introvert
deposition
14. Expressing or giving praise
euthanasia
laudatory
decorum
sanction
15. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
lampoon
incessant
lumber
hack
16. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
brazen
torment
plaque
centurion
17. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
trifling
dubious
qualm
middling
18. Strong convincing
cogent
plumb
ensconce
lugubrious
19. Person who stirs up war
maverick
warmonger
pileous
deprecate
20. Additional strengthening evidence
rivet
gaucherie
corroboration
bellicose
21. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
exuberance
obloquy
spurn
vigilant
22. Responsilibilty -burden
demur
onus
ferocity
mercurial
23. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
rancorous
diaphanous
undermine
jabber
24. Not new
pluck
trite
stipple
edify
25. To mark with different shade or colors
hoi
variegate
impassive
gust
26. Regular customer person who gives support
patron
balk
involute
tyro
27. Not soled with hole
resort
hollow
labyrinthine
dupe
28. Statement that damages reputation
libel
idyll
auspicious
expurgate
29. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
vindictive
wince
hush
30. Collapse bursting inward
finicky
superfluous
obtrusive
implosion
31. Containing warning
perish
stygian
admonitory
inscrutable
32. Dishonesty
gregarious
mendacity
consume
recalcitrant
33. Workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
aggravate
sullied
soot
forge
34. Unfortunate inconvenient
untoward
fission
enzyme
suppress
35. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
indulge
endorse
dogmatic
jejune
36. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
didactic
edify
boggle
idiosyncrasy
37. Without preparation or forethought
procrastination
recalcitrant
divestiture
offhand
38. Formidable causing fear
redoubtable
eradicate
privation
scorch
39. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
clamor
eddy
antithetical
drone
40. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
fledgling
stint
inept
propitiatory
41. Narrow-mindedness isolated
pry
expatiate
inane
insularity
42. Make hard and without feeling
astute
qualm
sere
collusion
43. Brief and to the point
terse
garner
viscous
beguile
44. Soft light delicate material
grouse
gossamer
substantiation
fetter
45. Unreasonably impatient
repast
soar
discern
petulant
46. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
epistle
extort
sententious
conciliatory
47. Red and healthy
predominate
apt
attune
rubicund
48. Since because
extant
inasmuch
cogitate
raffish
49. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
encomium
chauvinist
bilge
spurious
50. Appropriate to the situation apt
truce
churl
nebulous
apropos