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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. Display to obtain admiration or envy
efface
substantiation
ostentation
salubrious
2. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
stigma
felicitous
gerontocracy
gullible
3. Production of a desired result
efficacy
fracas
expatiate
superimpose
4. Rebel nonconformist
foppish
discrete
entangle
maverick
5. Easy-going trifle
unencumbered
strut
lope
sobriety
6. Insincere talk/jargon
cant
apostate
ascertain
ignoble
7. Additional load/charge
surcharge
diaphanous
liberality
hack
8. Try to deceive by equivocal language
equivocate
resilience
maladroit
hoodwink
9. Make angry vax
ambivalent
dote
provoke
succumb
10. Very great (es. stupidity)
roll
curmudgeon
crass
propitiatory
11. Disobedient
revere
recalcitrant
implosion
consummate
12. Complex
discredit
dislodge
involute
terse
13. Take the place of
supersede
vain
malign
voluble
14. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
oblivious
conjoin
veracity
15. Commanding haughty arrogant
fervid
vigilant
imperious
cryptic
16. Devious/not straightforward
froward
pertain
duplicity
tortuous
17. Smell (especially pleasant)
auxiliary
lachrymose
proliferate
scent
18. Make or become pure cultural
refine
sawdust
rescind
vagary
19. Strong dislike
fulmination
turbulence
forswear
aversion
20. Steady regular
equable
garble
imperviousness
trite
21. Majestic venerable
pious
lachrymose
august
vitiate
22. Violent cruel man
ruffian
succumb
auxiliary
dirge
23. Make payment to reward punish
correlate
obdurate
qualm
recompense
24. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
proliferate
lavish
welter
gourmand
25. Since because
impiety
inasmuch
calipers
undermine
26. Having little or no money
Palpable
oblivious
impecunious
virago
27. Likely to be useful for a purpose
placate
sluggard
encapsulate
expedient
28. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
pugnacious
relapse
fatuous
tepid
29. Too great a readiness to believe things
defer
ostracism
verve
credulity
30. A beggar
pileous
mendicant
brass
loquacious
31. Gruesome suggesting death
ameliorate
macabre
limn
abacus
32. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
ale
shrill
centurion
disparate
33. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
sycophant
inimitable
conspicuous
relapse
34. Following; attendants
halcyon
presage
ameliorate
retinue
35. Not new
trite
regicide
minatory
reprobate
36. To assuage to satisfy allay
slake
obloquy
recompense
truce
37. Quality of endurance or courage
lionize
mettle
foray
nebulous
38. Sharp piercing
recitals
wean
chisel
shrill
39. Rough awkward
dud
streak
finesse
uncouth
40. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
spurious
cower
putrefaction
gorge
41. A complex ornate design
cornucopia
disinter
arabesque
lugubrious
42. Boldness brashness intrepidness
obviate
gullible
smolder
temerity
43. To protest object
cohort
remonstrate
ossify
endearing
44. Rise fly high
detumescence
soar
commemorate
sophomoric
45. Abundant supply
extol
cornucopia
bilge
gullible
46. Puzzle confuse
fawn
rancorous
obloquy
bewilder
47. Pleasing in appearance attractive
enunciate
lull
libel
personable
48. Prevent from being known put an end to
suppress
inscrutable
implicit
facetious
49. Tale story fibers for knitting
precarious
soot
virago
yarn
50. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
descry
odious
graze
loll