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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. Arrogant conceited
haughty
stanch
finicky
pique
2. Not paying proper attention
severance
hirsute
aseptic
inadvertent
3. Shout complain with a lot of noise
incise
philanthropist
jejune
clamor
4. Large piece of cloth
poncho
condone
ubiquitous
inimitable
5. Childish
churlish
puerile
vigorous
ebullience
6. Too economical miserly
cumbersome
peregrination
fret
parsimonious
7. Take the place of
dilate
mollify
heterogeneous
supersede
8. Devious/not straightforward
forfeit
cling
dearth
tortuous
9. An inexperienced person.
inadvertent
denigrate
prevalent
fledgling
10. Outside the law
endearing
antithetical
extralegal
fret
11. Refuse to approve of
discountenance
raffish
efface
brash
12. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
phlegmatic
opaqueness
derision
graze
13. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
plummet
roll
lavish
coeval
14. Ask earnestly
ardor
rave
entreat
floe
15. Oppose to alcohol
evince
duplicity
teetotal
consequential
16. Haughty arrogant commanding
palate
imperviousness
palpability
supine
17. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
talon
sobriety
reticence
cloture
18. Warm and sincere
tenacity
cordial
predilection
weigh
19. Giving up control authority
proliferate
abdication
perjury
attune
20. Looking back on past
retrospective
ale
suborn
cohort
21. Harmful
cabal
enmity
prudish
noxious
22. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
contentious
sophomoric
pith
predilection
23. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
ineluctable
middling
extenuate
blandness
24. Suggest something in the past
reminiscent
congeal
dulcet
fetter
25. Merry person
hush
wag
avow
heresy
26. Physical of or for the body
corporeal
pucker
hubris
recant
27. Pedant authority on a subject
frenetic
recuperate
pundit
equanimity
28. Give comfort or sympathy to
console
warmonger
jibe
attune
29. Angry
dormant
treacherous
irate
oblivious
30. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
importune
apartheid
incorrigibility
frantic
31. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
abscond
pedantic
intransigent
plaque
32. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
macabre
cajole
corroboration
enunciate
33. Calmness of temperament
equanimity
fustian
obfuscate
abraded
34. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
connotation
chastisement
cabal
dote
35. Lukewarm
viscous
imperative
jagged
tepid
36. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
fission
epitome
volatile
prudish
37. Walk with long steps
incessant
ambrosial
stride
sober
38. Draw move back wince
flop
heinous
earthenware
flinch
39. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
clot
implicit
arabesque
fervid
40. Offense resentment
umbrage
rubicund
propinquity
lachrymose
41. Change direction
veer
reiterate
patron
rebus
42. Waver/move in an uncertain manner
falter
tout
flax
subsume
43. Passage that completes a piece of music
coda
recreancy
transitory
torment
44. Brave
sober
valiant
plumb
subpoena
45. Over look at with selfish delight
cling
gloat
conviction
inane
46. Person who loves wealth and spends little
fatuous
superfluous
miser
profligacy
47. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
recalcitrant
proliferate
ramify
plumb
48. Convincing firm belief
loll
upbraid
repast
conviction
49. Learned scholarly
bilge
inane
erudite
profundity
50. Fix firmly by repetition
inculcate
cogitate
smolder
maverick