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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. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
pinch
apotheosis
volatile
clamor
2. Obtain by threats violence
approbation
prevalent
extort
combustion
3. Substance become excited
flout
aberration
yarn
ferment
4. Grow forth send out buds
plumb
pitfall
burgeon
hapless
5. Chains for the hands or feet
manacle
abdication
flaunting
virago
6. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
ruddy
decry
vigilance
fret
7. Care economy thriving prosperous
intransigent
turbulence
thrift
petrified
8. Close connection relationship
somatic
inane
affinity
profane
9. Waste away through sorrow or illness
exuberance
abeyance
resuscitation
pine
10. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
epiphany
beguile
apprise
impugned
11. Discover by searching search
ferret
vitiate
plaque
puissance
12. Show bodily or mental pain
wince
concoct
vex
odium
13. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
implosion
dearth
glut
trenchant
14. Polite and friendly
prudish
affable
prevaricate
gust
15. To delight or entertain to feast
impede
regale
disseminate
plod
16. Disguised
covert
wend
raconteur
hoax
17. Calm not capable of being excited
verve
imperturbable
subdue
untoward
18. Forgive
condone
ambidextrous
imperious
repel
19. Not pretended sincere
unfeigned
forestall
requite
calisthenics
20. Noisy quarrel
squalid
fracas
ossify
severance
21. Burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
resigned
morose
cumbersome
eulogy
22. Flood cover by overflowing
inundate
dwarf
irascible
buoyant
23. Making unpure poorer in quality
vindictive
adulteration
engender
depredation
24. Rich and deep plump and round
rotund
disrobe
maul
connote
25. Coming back to consciousness
ferret
apprehensive
substantiation
resuscitation
26. Easily done
descry
coeval
facile
pique
27. Be enough
shard
encapsulate
suffice
solvent
28. Present but not yet active developed or visible
accolade
chaste
latent
stolid
29. Common
duplicity
gaucherie
prevalent
ingenuous
30. Of the present time only
disheveled
temerity
tenuous
provisional
31. Corrosive; sarcastic
convoke
oblivious
testiness
vitriolic
32. Mean contemptible
profuse
euthanasia
sanction
scurvy
33. Get to the root of
succumb
hermetic
plumb
brazen
34. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
incumbents
bolster
rife
harbinger
35. Strong dislike
pivotal
tamper
foolproof
animosity
36. Neat formal
sanguine
inquest
sadastic
prim
37. Move restlessly make nervous
fidget
nexus
sketchy
treacherous
38. Fond of in the habit of fighting
malign
coalescing
rapacious
pugnacious
39. Blessing
benison
ostracism
peripatetic
hallow
40. Taking off getting rid of giving up
erratic
blithe
divestiture
writ
41. Sparkle
vain
impute
coruscate
serrated
42. Bad-tempered person
soar
impecunious
vituperate
churl
43. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
arduous
brass
ingenuous
sluggard
44. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
apropos
lumber
impugned
introvert
45. Epidemic
plea
flinch
resuscitation
endemic
46. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
mien
intransigence
austere
nostrum
47. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
dolt
exculpate
pitfall
cantankerous
48. Ridicule mockery deriding
finical
volatile
derision
mollify
49. Having plenty of space for what is needed
torque
commodious
conjoin
refractory
50. Call together summon
dismal
convoke
fulmination
subpoena