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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. Arrogant conceited
indefatigability
haughty
perfunctory
germane
2. No longer active
sodden
extinct
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
rubicund
3. Feeling or showing regret
penitent
skiff
uncouth
abstruse
4. Draw together unite firmly
aver
vitriolic
pith
knit
5. Rising or falling sharply
stray
vain
churl
steeply
6. The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
collusion
indolence
dwarf
accretion
7. Welcomed with shouts and approval
acclaimed
dote
contentious
flax
8. Sluggish dull not tight
equable
raffish
plea
slack
9. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
mendicant
scribble
somersault
10. Hesitating undecided
levee
irresolute
evince
combustion
11. To chastise correct by punishing
harangue
coy
officious
castigate
12. Able to fly trained experienced
plaque
fledged
profuse
plumb
13. Bottomless extreme
neophyte
abysmal
holster
pariah
14. With attack violently
impediment
profligacy
assail
allegiance
15. Avoided - kept away from
shunned
matriculation
veritable
brazen
16. Calm not capable of being excited
renowned
importune
berate
imperturbable
17. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
coddle
acumen
squalid
preternatural
18. Severing
severance
lachrymose
succor
doggerel
19. Complex subtle refined
sophisticated
presumption
inclined
insurrection
20. Treacherous faithless
preclude
perfidious
quirk
rueful
21. Brief
transitory
veracity
pulchritude
fustian
22. To debase by mixing with something inferior
provoke
indulgent
alloy
forage
23. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
pugnacious
connote
pied
garrulous
24. Exuberance outburst of feeling
disrobe
ebullience
derision
aloof
25. Attractive on the surface but of little value
swerve
goad
torpid
meretricious
26. Curse abuse in words
uncouth
redoubtable
piquant
vituperate
27. To favor or approve of
exoneration
countenance
luculent
inclined
28. Passage that completes a piece of music
euthanasia
coda
tyro
assiduous
29. Bring up announce begin to talk about
broach
effluvia
onerous
sententious
30. A raid a sudden attack
skit
recuperate
incursion
auspicious
31. Care economy thriving prosperous
thrift
enzyme
dwarf
parsimonious
32. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
complaisant
hollow
beguile
judicious
33. Counterfeit
muffler
turmoil
tortuous
forgery
34. Without taste or flavor
edible
aberration
insipid
consequential
35. An invocation of evil a curse
dismal
disheveled
lavish
imprecation
36. Compel to force to make obedient
alloy
coerce
proclivity
accretion
37. Be guilty commit (a crime)
minatory
cantankerous
ebullient
perpetrate
38. Plunder (especially in war)
moderation
pillage
veritable
disallow
39. In the highest degree
proliferate
expiation
arrant
heresy
40. Cheerful casual carefree
predominate
blithe
impecunious
turmoil
41. Childish
arduous
inured
puerile
catalyst
42. Being uncertain hesitating
perfidious
duplicity
coalescing
vacillation
43. A quack remedy an untested cure
stanch
ingenuous
harrow
nostrum
44. Person who lives alone and avoids people
recluse
nexus
bereft
sodden
45. Not paying proper attention
obtrusive
inadvertent
suppress
extinct
46. Furiously angry - enraged
abhor
subpoena
livid
congeal
47. Relying on experiment
inasmuch
empirical
rumple
streak
48. Easy and painless death
coerce
euthanasia
macabre
eclat
49. Hurt by rough handling
plaintive
ameliorate
maul
soggy
50. Bad-tempered irritable
mollify
plunge
barren
splenetic