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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. Bring up announce begin to talk about
scalding
resort
palpability
broach
2. Bunch of threads
salutary
discourse
tassel
perfidious
3. Belong as a part have reference
insurrection
pertain
euphoria
perfidious
4. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
vilify
renovate
scurvy
5. Too talkative
Conduce
nonplused
precursors
garrulous
6. Weariness tiredness
lassitude
mesmerize
idyll
steeply
7. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
argot
august
malleable
stanch
8. Spend wastefully
perch
squander
cling
dissent
9. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
specious
sequence
doggerel
pluck
10. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
froward
grievous
liberality
clinch
11. Covered with hair
pileous
contemn
peregrination
defiance
12. To be stained or discredited
sullied
complaisance
procrastination
oblivious
13. Obsequious flatterer
obtrusive
fret
toady
limp
14. Dethronement depositing
dilate
deposition
incite
grouse
15. To turn away (from a habit)
woo
thrift
benison
wean
16. Causing grief or pain serious dire grave
surcharge
defer
grievous
malapropism
17. A quack remedy an untested cure
Palpable
graze
nostrum
droll
18. Not having interest
nonchalant
lassitude
render
engender
19. Praise approval
accolade
peripatetic
sordid
palpitate
20. Get rid of pull up by the roots
eradicate
undulate
substantiation
complaisance
21. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
abscond
antithetical
wanton
supercilious
22. Meant as a joke
jocular
knit
consternation
voluble
23. Burden things that get on the way of
stickler
tamper
encumbrance
shrewd
24. To be established accepted or customary
parenthesis
blandishment
wean
obtain
25. Crawl humble oneself
grovel
dubious
edible
squat
26. Looking back on past
engrave
retrospective
coddle
protracted
27. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
assuage
parenthesis
bilge
fawn
28. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
mollify
plaintive
gallant
inept
29. Nickname
sobriquet
pulchritude
phlegmatic
sketchy
30. Magnificent
pliant
illicit
sumptuous
censure
31. Promise or swear to give up
abjure
inchoate
profligate
foible
32. Puzzle confuse
bewilder
fragrant
enzyme
liberality
33. Dull and slow
torpid
exigency
conceal
ebullient
34. As an installment
decorum
euphoria
tenacity
interim
35. Deep-rooted. long-established
inveterate
discrete
weigh
torque
36. Careful/prudent
sobriquet
catalyst
discreet
avow
37. Undress
disrobe
cursory
crease
quack
38. Move quickly suddenly and with force
plunge
obtrusive
blandness
lustrous
39. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
gainsay
hollow
endearing
impute
40. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
appease
blatant
cling
41. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
whimsical
impair
elicit
benign
42. Majestic venerable
alacrity
imperative
august
waffle
43. In a dying state; near death
moribund
frantic
conciliatory
impending
44. Close connection relationship
treacherous
affinity
abysmal
contentious
45. Pompous self important
embezzle
consequential
equivocate
quail
46. A sheet of floating ice
hack
countenance
graze
floe
47. A piece of broken pottery
shard
imperative
obtrusive
regicide
48. Pleasing in appearance attractive
eradicate
benign
personable
bandy
49. Without taste or flavor
immutable
insipid
affinity
derision
50. Arrogance
immaculate
presumption
stigmatize
tout