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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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1. To make unnecessary get rid of
reminiscent
officious
obviate
conviction
2. Biting sarcastic
homiletics
pious
malign
caustic
3. Get to the end of
render
stymie
extralegal
consume
4. Abusive language curses
bilge
invective
supercilious
obstreperous
5. Make worse irritate
frenetic
prone
aggravate
introspection
6. Courageous high-spirited
quixotic
shunned
mettlesome
dereliction
7. Make beautiful
inimical
feral
embellish
vigilant
8. Not paying proper attention
fragile
puissance
inadvertent
reticence
9. Provide supply
talon
delineate
obsequious
purvey
10. Like a slave lacking independence
stride
coagulation
imbroglio
servile
11. Make tight or smaller
constrict
enervate
refulgent
conceit
12. Tale story fibers for knitting
imperious
yarn
epithet
suffice
13. Fearless brave undaunted
intrepid
sober
repel
extant
14. A long passionate speech
grievous
argot
harangue
tamper
15. Compel
constrain
libertine
somatic
shunt
16. Taking too little care
connoisseur
vagary
negligent
dirge
17. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
embellish
concoct
mundane
crush
18. Discourage hinder
imprecation
legacy
deter
hew
19. Lively high-spirited
petrify
vivacious
slur
obtain
20. Polloi the masses the rabble
covert
torpid
hoi
bequest
21. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
falter
macerate
convoke
22. Attract - lure
entice
luculent
disproof
cling
23. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
sidestep
duress
sophistry
curtail
24. Bold
audacious
epithet
gullible
quixotic
25. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
inclined
conciliatory
tamper
disinter
26. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
timorous
placate
ostracism
massacre
27. Recess/partially enclosed place
soot
alcove
quell
descry
28. Be unsteady and overturn
permeate
topple
facile
abide
29. Free from encumbrance
cognizant
disencumber
gust
hoax
30. Tactless clumsy
maudlin
perfidy
maladroit
tassel
31. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
revere
turbulence
knit
32. Sham counterfeit not genuine
irate
provisional
bogus
coagulation
33. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
chicanery
prim
defalcate
propitiatory
34. Beginning
incipient
plunge
plea
jocular
35. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
ambidextrous
sidestep
slack
muffler
36. Plundering
depredation
approbation
putrefaction
bellicose
37. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
reticence
breach
pliant
egress
38. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
connote
perpetrate
aggravate
desuetude
39. Curse abuse in words
hoodwink
aseptic
vituperate
incite
40. Bitter protest
fulmination
demur
riddle
obloquy
41. Serious requiring consideration
grave
deviance
intransigent
colander
42. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
soot
edify
placate
43. Able to float light-hearted
buoyant
ensign
mellifluous
gorge
44. One who loves mankind
vigilance
philanthropist
brook
retrograde
45. Over look at with selfish delight
gloat
garble
exuberance
edify
46. Living in societies liking the company
incredulous
gregarious
savor
repast
47. Move quickly suddenly and with force
venal
ruddy
wile
plunge
48. Ready and smooth but not sincere
fulsome
apostate
glib
detraction
49. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
privation
cloture
predilection
indulge
50. Formal praise eulogy
panegyric
precarious
swerve
dynamo