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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Get to the end of
holster
oblivious
shrill
consume
2. Call up bring out
evoke
transitory
quell
imprecation
3. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
savor
prosaic
forge
tamp
4. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
chauvinist
feckless
hauteur
engrave
5. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
vacillation
indolence
cravat
doggerel
6. Cessation of use disuse
desuetude
piquant
imperviousness
plethora
7. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
suffocate
plummet
aloof
pileous
8. Witness/evidence
guile
flop
testiness
dilate
9. Various miscellaneous separate
mendacious
impiety
sundry
excoriation
10. Essentially different
disparate
impermeable
propitious
boisterous
11. Tending to evade
inundate
manacle
indulgent
evasive
12. Quality or condition of being sober
fidelity
sobriety
odor
heterogeneous
13. Enclose in capsule
encapsulate
didactic
sketchy
abdication
14. Little depth not earnest
shallow
sash
drowsiness
facile
15. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
finical
officious
bilge
prolix
16. Deeply moving keen
sodden
punctilious
poignant
stingy
17. An invocation of evil a curse
tenacity
imprecation
congeal
pious
18. Put something on the top
harbinger
superimpose
pernicious
credulity
19. To stop the flow of a fluid
abraded
reiterate
stanch
profligacy
20. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
insinuate
lavish
recluse
emote
21. Childish
reticence
puerile
supine
condense
22. Striped grooved or banded
unscathed
striated
judicious
vestige
23. Polloi the masses the rabble
recluse
atonement
covert
hoi
24. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
hoi
extinguish
bereft
haughty
25. Having a toothed edge
pernicious
repel
serrated
cadge
26. Spend wastefully
erratic
implicate
chicanery
squander
27. That cannot be permeated
cogitate
disrobe
sidestep
impermeable
28. Scold upbraid
vain
attune
insinuate
reproach
29. Person who eats a lot
slate
urbane
profligacy
trencherman
30. Increase in density strength make laconic
renovate
condense
disconcert
taciturn
31. Put pour fill
infuse
disingenuous
duplicity
clot
32. Shameless immorality
approbation
infuriate
profligacy
lackluster
33. Display to obtain admiration or envy
sycophant
finical
ostentation
sinuous
34. Strength
puissance
relapse
flout
hoi
35. Personal mannerism
extinct
stifled
colloquial
idiosyncrasy
36. Narrow-mindedness isolated
indistinct
insularity
ingest
egress
37. Have deep respect for
ameliorate
peccadillo
revere
rivet
38. Make hard and without feeling
concur
baneful
severance
sere
39. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
froward
affable
perjury
sheath
40. Menacing threatening
abscond
interdict
minatory
prone
41. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
eclat
hoax
obstreperous
scabbard
42. Snub
rebuff
turgid
telltale
sundry
43. Put into difficulties
invincible
dainty
entangle
perish
44. Anger
quiescence
rarefy
rebuff
ire
45. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
epiphany
accrue
extirpate
limn
46. Common
entangle
prevalent
splice
surcharge
47. Speech lecture
recuperate
savant
discourse
prodigal
48. Person who loves wealth and spends little
poignant
miser
husk
incorrigibility
49. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
argot
underbid
spurn
bilge
50. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
inept
stride
sundry
immaculate