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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. Get to the end of
frugal
asterisk
abhor
consume
2. Extreme astounding
profligate
discredit
engrossing
sublime
3. Hurt by rough handling
apropos
proclivity
veer
maul
4. Challenged to be doubted
detraction
colander
impugned
crass
5. Passage that completes a piece of music
shrewd
presumption
admonitory
coda
6. Call together summon
convoke
gnaw
incite
retinue
7. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
finesse
vex
tout
admonitory
8. Hatred being an enemy
enmity
permeate
luculent
lucubrate
9. Unoriginal obtained from another source
derivative
penchant
shard
gust
10. Bring up announce begin to talk about
pith
scalding
broach
assuage
11. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
grouse
gouge
repulsive
servile
12. Repulsive hateful
propinquity
peccadillo
hush
odious
13. Brave
petrified
ulterior
indomitable
valorous
14. Odious (of crime)
drone
heinous
patron
matriculation
15. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
goad
reprobate
torment
virago
16. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
equanimity
discredit
piquant
welter
17. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
prosaic
coruscate
equipoise
emote
18. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
pinch
enthral
precepts
cajole
19. Move quickly suddenly and with force
plunge
foolproof
wan
cordon
20. Strong dislike
animosity
implacable
plead
reverent
21. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
shrewd
imbroglio
ostracism
duplicity
22. Lasting
enduring
gorge
expurgate
render
23. Intended to instruct
retrograde
didactic
palpitate
constrain
24. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
preen
mundane
incredulous
abacus
25. Suppressed - kept back
insipid
turquoise
disparate
stifled
26. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
erratic
officious
poncho
stifled
27. Trifling/worthless
coax
countervail
barren
nugatory
28. Relying on experiment
cabal
erratic
empirical
effluvia
29. Make worse irritate
suborn
aggravate
subsume
opaqueness
30. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
cling
flout
precursors
deviance
31. Childish
soot
stolid
puerile
expedient
32. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
inveigh
dupe
extinct
permeate
33. Little known abstruse
supersede
dirge
refulgent
recondite
34. Calm and peaceful
phlegmatic
tyro
halcyon
elaborate
35. An invocation of evil a curse
imprecation
enunciate
abide
heed
36. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
pyre
ambiguous
sanity
harbinger
37. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
emote
glean
mischievous
nibble
38. Easily seen remarkable
moribund
knit
conspicuous
abacus
39. Severe criticism
figurehead
excoriation
simper
spurious
40. Belong as a part have reference
ferocity
philistine
pertain
enduring
41. Sheath for the blade
pest
garner
breach
scabbard
42. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
abhor
pungency
malleable
lassitude
43. One who loves mankind
recuperate
baleful
philanthropist
profuse
44. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
slake
immutable
ascend
45. That cannot be changed
immutable
ferment
desultory
vehemence
46. State or put forward as a necessary condition
ostentation
crass
stipulate
nonplused
47. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
fixate
whimsical
unearth
dainty
48. Ready to believe things
credulous
personable
minatory
dawdler
49. Furiously angry - enraged
console
livid
retrospective
personable
50. One who considers himself smarter than others
aleck
incise
connote
chisel