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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Satisfy fully
burnish
disencumber
stigmatize
satiate
2. Devious/not straightforward
tortuous
curmudgeon
insurrection
immaculate
3. Self-controlled
gorge
sober
grave
muffler
4. Discover and bring to light
fidget
unearth
dangle
harrow
5. Write one's name on the back of
indulgent
indefatigability
rueful
endorse
6. Omen marvelous threatening
forbearance
portent
resilience
lackluster
7. Denounce as dangerous
garrulous
proscribe
blithe
perspicacity
8. Make rough
enunciate
rumple
suppress
effrontery
9. Make worse irritate
fidelity
aggravate
philanthropist
disseminate
10. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
mollify
extirpate
levity
veracity
11. Receding
shunt
engrossing
impending
retrograde
12. Having a toothed edge
engrossing
serration
bask
obviate
13. That cannot be rubbed out
nadir
indelible
denouement
gist
14. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
knit
mince
evoke
indigenous
15. Red and healthy
rubicund
allegiance
dislodge
disallow
16. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
finicky
untoward
reticent
heresy
17. Liking to give hospitality
mince
hospitable
exigency
splice
18. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
effluvia
incense
contrite
grouse
19. Porous rubber for washing live at once expense
breach
efficacy
sponge
discreet
20. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
uncouth
buoyant
waft
impending
21. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
palpitate
resilience
sedulous
abjure
22. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
fragile
correlate
idyll
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
23. Surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
stygian
veneer
propitious
duplicity
24. Chains for the hands or feet
perfidy
fallacious
manacle
taunt
25. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
glean
luminary
sycophant
implosion
26. Think deeply mediate
coalescing
cogitate
pungency
imperative
27. Carved image on the prow of a ship
incredulous
vagary
figurehead
myriad
28. Taken away power (to think feel act)
contumacious
coalescing
stifled
petrified
29. Tiresome
apartheid
cognizant
fixate
irksome
30. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
blase
counterfeit
apprise
frugal
31. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
conviction
alloy
graze
sullied
32. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
impervious
torque
importune
distraught
33. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
hew
foment
coda
perfidy
34. Implied though not plainly expressed
profane
drone
irresolute
implicit
35. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
clot
commemorate
plaque
pluck
36. Formal praise eulogy
panegyric
arduous
irksome
ramify
37. Overcome bring under control
wean
turbulence
palpability
subdue
38. Bring into harmony
attune
cornucopia
aver
cordon
39. Strong convincing
penchant
stigma
daunt
cogent
40. Emergency an urgent situation
provisional
assuage
exigency
abjure
41. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
depredation
engrossing
portent
austere
42. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
deposition
candid
impediment
epistle
43. Patience willingness to wait
impetuous
obfuscate
proliferate
forbearance
44. Substance that causes speeding up
catalyst
noisome
summarily
heterogeneous
45. Wickedness shamefulness
tautology
stentorian
pyre
turpitude
46. Change direction suddenly
rebuff
decorum
swerve
vigilance
47. Hairy shaggy
turpitude
grandiloquent
hirsute
eclat
48. Giving up control authority
volubility
abdication
disheveled
gloat
49. Person who loves wealth and spends little
glib
miser
muffler
sullied
50. Eagerly desirous
covetous
machination
cower
castigate