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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. Smell (especially pleasant)
probity
taciturn
scent
vindictive
2. State or put forward as a necessary condition
lucubrate
offhand
subdue
stipulate
3. Brutal racial discrimination
vigorous
apartheid
middling
succumb
4. Bring into harmony
attune
plummet
restive
aspersion
5. Present everywhere
ubiquitous
teetotal
flak
nebulous
6. Essential part force soft liquid substance
garrulous
pith
extol
emote
7. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
vivacious
nibble
ascertain
mollify
8. Alarm excited state of mind
eddy
impair
trepidation
calisthenics
9. Easy-going trifle
unencumbered
collusion
recitals
pernicious
10. Cheerful casual carefree
blithe
parsimonious
render
encomium
11. Make thin. weaken enervate
squander
attenuate
gullible
temperate
12. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
ire
congeal
baleful
endeavor
13. Refuse to believe
mulct
libertine
loll
discredit
14. Mournful excessively sad
imperious
lugubrious
itinerate
forbearance
15. Propriety properness
discountenance
decorum
squander
sundry
16. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
sadastic
temerity
hew
whimsical
17. Traveling about wandering
peregrination
ecumenical
extempore
abacus
18. Worldly having contempt for God
ameliorate
bedizen
profane
engulf
19. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
forge
lampoon
incongruous
philanthropist
20. Formal praise eulogy
panegyric
ingenuous
fret
umbrage
21. That cannot be rubbed out
inclined
onerous
savant
indelible
22. Large pile of wood for burning
insipid
acclaimed
pyre
temerity
23. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
tawdry
effluvia
approbation
maudlin
24. Get something inquire too curiously
flimsy
pry
harangue
shallow
25. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
credulity
shard
mettle
prone
26. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
vain
concoct
dupe
27. Number of ships quick-moving
supine
fleet
acclaimed
depredation
28. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
admonitory
obsequious
clot
philanthropist
29. Hide keep secret
dogmatic
dormant
preponderance
conceal
30. Corrected punished
articulate
equilibrium
exculpate
chastened
31. Twisting force causing rotation
sadastic
rescind
torque
quell
32. Strange act or idea
intransigent
vagary
abacus
massacre
33. Epidemic
impecunious
impassive
endemic
garble
34. A supporting bar
parenthesis
sidestep
strut
profane
35. Lacking strength walking unevenly
matriculation
limp
pitfall
coruscate
36. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
wanton
bask
smolder
Conduce
37. Forcefulness
vehemence
sketchy
lackluster
haughty
38. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
insularity
mellifluous
pest
reminiscent
39. Show much fondness center one's attention
contumacious
multifarious
fission
dote
40. Inclination
disencumber
effluvia
veracity
proclivity
41. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
cower
foment
inchoate
gregarious
42. Statement that damages reputation
livid
fulmination
incite
libel
43. Compel
constrain
purvey
calumny
disinter
44. Punishing
immutable
ignominious
aspersion
punitive
45. Soaked saturated
dexterity
sodden
abide
pungency
46. Welcomed with shouts and approval
acclaimed
abstruse
myriad
rotund
47. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
cursory
irresolute
savor
profligate
48. Make payment to reward punish
spear
animosity
recompense
lustrous
49. Lying on the back slow to act passive
supine
taunt
aver
scent
50. Commonplace trite unremarkable
lugubrious
pedestrian
exculpate
petrous