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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. Undress
disrobe
forge
infuriate
fringe
2. Looking ill - not bright
berate
ambiguous
render
wan
3. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
soot
belabor
deviance
frugal
4. Winding undulating serpentine
pulchritude
emote
sinuous
convoke
5. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
rejuvenation
cravat
epicurean
picaresque
6. Recess/partially enclosed place
sophisticated
alcove
recidivism
attenuate
7. Looking back on past
minatory
retrospective
chaste
supplicate
8. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
burnish
cogitate
prolix
disallow
9. Astute showing sound judgement
shrewd
engender
lament
reconcile
10. Keep the memory of
plethora
encumbrance
commemorate
imprecation
11. Insubstantial flimsy weak
tenuous
pique
disencumber
acumen
12. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
inadvertent
crush
telltale
soar
13. Elation state of pleasant excitement
reproach
forge
euphoria
supersede
14. Menacing threatening
minatory
pervade
perfidious
arrogance
15. Bring into harmony
attune
heretic
fulsome
spear
16. Still in existence
imbroglio
immutable
umbrage
extant
17. Propriety properness
detumescence
decorum
covert
perish
18. Self-controlled
belabor
enunciate
proscribe
sober
19. Add beauty; decorate
misogynist
debacle
adorn
refine
20. Substance used to absorb moisture
doggerel
attune
irate
desiccant
21. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
distraught
drowsiness
vigilance
engender
22. Health of mind soundness of judgment
disingenuous
sanity
pedantic
mettlesome
23. Magnificent
interdict
palatial
presentiment
sedulous
24. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
dissemble
castigation
propinquity
rivet
25. Quality of endurance or courage
barren
mettle
blatant
canvass
26. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
cling
poncho
resuscitation
27. Forgive
condone
sting
vanquish
extinct
28. Uncertain risky dangerous
precarious
nonplused
extricable
incipient
29. Sensitiveness
ascertain
privation
hoodwink
susceptibility
30. Shout complain with a lot of noise
extinguish
incredulous
clamor
foment
31. Boldness impudence arrogance
pristine
lucubrate
aloof
effrontery
32. Denounce as dangerous
proscribe
fleet
pillage
encomium
33. To polish rub to a shine
rarefy
valiant
grievous
burnish
34. Giving great attention to details
meticulous
droll
sophomoric
sober
35. Person who is slow waste of time
lassitude
vigilance
peremptory
dawdler
36. Active quick-moving
agile
efficacy
poignant
sermon
37. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
mellifluous
extenuate
equipoise
finesse
38. Chains for the hands or feet
benevolence
manacle
molt
inchoate
39. Nurture care for
dereliction
misogynist
foster
innocuous
40. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
redoubtable
ineluctable
opaqueness
bereft
41. Restore something to better condition
renovate
cower
lionize
petulant
42. Plundering
commemorate
perch
barren
depredation
43. Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
opprobrious
colander
plaintive
feckless
44. Not new
subdue
picaresque
calipers
trite
45. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
cling
beguile
plunge
disinter
46. Courageous high-spirited
hew
mettlesome
flop
ramify
47. Strong dislike
quixotic
trifling
aversion
ensign
48. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
clot
suppress
tout
ardor
49. To scorn or despise
contemn
shunt
aversion
venal
50. Of the body
entangle
vigorous
dangle
somatic