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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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1. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
sanity
duplicity
grumble
nebulous
2. Learned scholarly
cower
erudite
weigh
bequest
3. Prevent from being known put an end to
heresy
countervail
feckless
suppress
4. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
pious
sanction
livid
offhand
5. Sensitiveness
susceptibility
jagged
jocular
chastened
6. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
superimpose
grumble
graze
highbrow
7. Keep the memory of
lassitude
impediment
squat
commemorate
8. Suppressed - kept back
heterogeneous
mulct
stifled
pedantic
9. More then is needed or wanted
superfluous
flamboyant
arrogance
pivotal
10. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
cling
fission
salutary
prune
11. Crouch/settle without permission
hermetic
proliferate
trickle
squat
12. Carved image on the prow of a ship
balk
sluggard
edacious
figurehead
13. Brightly colored florid
flamboyant
concur
temperance
commodious
14. Strong inclination a liking
rebus
crease
introspection
penchant
15. Polloi the masses the rabble
heretic
gist
squander
hoi
16. Strenuous effort
veneration
lustrous
arduous
sagacious
17. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
waffle
puerile
slur
inclined
18. Be unsteady and overturn
acumen
tadpole
machination
topple
19. Helping supporting
stigma
apt
abjure
auxiliary
20. Unaware having no memory
pious
proliferate
oblivious
tenacity
21. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
philistine
propagation
turbid
tenacity
22. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
refulgent
travesty
restive
insinuate
23. Treacherous faithless
commemorate
jocular
perfidious
eulogy
24. Mischievous trick played to deceive
finesse
jibe
hoax
expatiate
25. Giving up control authority
abjure
abdication
flimsy
puerile
26. Rub or wipe out - obliterate
efface
tamp
summarily
disinter
27. To distress create stress or torment
blithe
harrow
conspicuous
diatribe
28. Have more power than others
predominate
resigned
foster
petulant
29. Move force from the place occupied
fervor
prolix
dislodge
fetid
30. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
foppish
vigilant
preen
harrow
31. Rough awkward
refine
expurgate
gullible
uncouth
32. Corrected punished
Conduce
apprise
chastened
endeavor
33. Sealed by fusion
vituperate
entangle
hermetic
reiterate
34. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
curriculum
sycophant
supplicate
petrify
35. Hairy shaggy
recant
aversion
hirsute
accrue
36. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
ebullient
edacious
truce
voluble
37. Spirit vigor enthusiasm
concord
meretricious
verve
garble
38. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
finesse
tangential
tenacity
cabal
39. Hypnotize
obfuscate
intersperse
redeem
mesmerize
40. Provide supply
purvey
soggy
plummet
compunction
41. Showing earnest feeling
harbinger
irresolute
preternatural
fervid
42. Make a lower bid then somebody else
underbid
pedestrian
concoct
belabor
43. Unfortunate inconvenient
dwarf
pellucid
untoward
doleful
44. Essentially different
piquant
chagrin
disparate
diaphanous
45. Granting of privileges in return for similar
clamor
shunned
welter
reciprocity
46. Deliver provide represent
covert
exuberance
shunt
render
47. Make calmer or quieter
propinquity
tamper
mollify
impending
48. Certain inevitable
denigrate
ineluctable
meticulous
repudiate
49. Authority written order guarantee
bereft
pine
prodigal
warrant
50. To protest object
consume
remonstrate
barrage
antidote