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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. A sheet of floating ice
finesse
inveterate
verdant
floe
2. Abusive language curses
incite
wend
misogynist
invective
3. Seeming appearing as such professed
ostensible
abhor
dote
convoke
4. Devious/not straightforward
tortuous
rescind
refulgent
truce
5. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
provisional
piquant
whimsical
constrain
6. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
officious
sanity
detumescence
complaisant
7. Come to grips/settle conclusively
clinch
permeate
disheveled
malign
8. Getting farther apart from a point
loll
divergence
nugatory
belabor
9. To hesitate raise objections
flimsy
demur
chastisement
irate
10. Briefly without delay
castigate
prolix
summarily
tamp
11. Try to avoid by sophistication
tenacity
reverent
aver
quibble
12. Blessing
reprobate
benison
auxiliary
duress
13. Make a humble petition to
rescind
coax
supplicate
endeavor
14. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
proliferate
maudlin
flinch
discreet
15. To clear from a charge of guilt
turbulence
serrated
prune
exculpate
16. To make great efforts - to struggle
levity
strive
stygian
palpitate
17. Something urging a person to action
mischievous
odium
trudge
goad
18. Sharp piercing
shrill
extinguish
precursory
pariah
19. Warmth of feelings earnestness
vivacious
relapse
fervor
servile
20. Interfere with
delineate
lampoon
tamper
fidget
21. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
wag
debacle
unscathed
subdue
22. Emergency an urgent situation
exigency
obstreperous
pillage
figurehead
23. Draw together unite firmly
moderation
undulate
knit
berate
24. In the highest degree
arrant
dormant
sash
coeval
25. Person who insists on importance of something
obstreperous
stickler
lumber
abraded
26. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
gloat
propitious
aseptic
quack
27. Sad gloomy miserable
sanctimony
dismal
succor
effrontery
28. Make (pain) easier to bear
neophyte
incessant
loll
alleviate
29. Compel
divulge
cursory
abet
constrain
30. A beggar
prone
feud
mendicant
verve
31. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
acumen
haughty
maudlin
plunge
32. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
hollow
impediment
fulmination
truculence
33. Astute showing sound judgement
hoi
shrewd
discredit
burgeon
34. Lack of seriousness
levity
extinguish
presumption
extol
35. Giving facts to support (statement)
soporific
substantiation
turmoil
interdict
36. Accumulate
accrue
abhor
acclaimed
snub
37. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
credulous
stipulate
disdain
equipoise
38. Dejected
sinuous
variegate
dwarf
rueful
39. Small boat
egress
turquoise
entreat
skiff
40. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
affable
importune
sever
pious
41. Proof to the contrary
stray
disproof
misogynist
parley
42. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
impediment
sophistry
dissent
parsimonious
43. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
quandary
alloy
restive
bereft
44. A generator something that produces electric current
dynamo
heinous
noxious
ambiguous
45. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
indefatigability
lament
euthanasia
baneful
46. Have a mutual relation
reverent
meretricious
correlate
foible
47. Kind of stone inflexible
plummet
adamant
gouge
castigate
48. Fearless brave undaunted
mendicant
intrepid
quail
craven
49. Claw of a bird of prey
plethora
fret
talon
extempore
50. Person who has been converted to a belief
benefactor
contemn
neophyte
rivet