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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. Make known something secret
divulge
vanquish
sycophant
stanch
2. Stir up excite
salacious
snare
emote
resilience
3. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
obloquy
ambiguous
strive
puerile
4. Present everywhere
ubiquitous
egress
drowsiness
imminent
5. Majestic venerable
veneration
opprobrious
august
cognizant
6. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
presumption
recidivism
trenchant
scurvy
7. Brutal racial discrimination
apartheid
flinch
indolence
irascible
8. Cowardly
profligate
craven
rotund
plethora
9. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
fringe
vindictive
repine
equivocal
10. Ready to believe things
perpetrate
coerce
credulous
felon
11. Constant
evince
incessant
engender
aversion
12. Obtain by threats violence
strive
conviction
extort
forge
13. Giving facts to support (statement)
hypocrisy
orison
substantiation
goad
14. Sluggish dull not tight
slack
ostentation
divergence
florid
15. The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup
turbid
substantiation
accretion
forfeit
16. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
beguile
fluster
sycophant
massacre
17. See with an effort but clearly
libel
discern
ominous
engrossing
18. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
perpetrate
limn
mendacious
tawdry
19. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
sting
multifarious
opaqueness
ambivalent
20. Biting sarcastic
sublime
caustic
vex
sobriety
21. Blessing
benison
intrepid
fragile
shrewd
22. Fix take up secure metal pin
rivet
lampoon
mercurial
muffler
23. To make unnecessary get rid of
nonplused
judicious
hoi
obviate
24. Finical
abscond
disproof
finicky
blandishment
25. Perfect/make perfect/complete
loll
consummate
seminal
sanctimony
26. Brave
quibble
rife
sedulous
valiant
27. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
sporadic
boggle
cravat
submerge
28. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
spear
agog
gallant
baleful
29. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
vigilance
forfeit
flax
prosaic
30. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
barren
fecund
waffle
malign
31. Traveling about wandering
adamant
peregrination
exscind
dislodge
32. Of the same period coexisting
quaff
infuse
retard
coeval
33. Magnificent
foment
dainty
sumptuous
trudge
34. Hatred being an enemy
enmity
interim
conspicuous
foppish
35. Common
precursors
prevalent
pileous
inured
36. Suddenly changeable
plunge
tangential
cantankerous
shunt
37. Authority written order guarantee
surcharge
derision
warrant
requite
38. Check hinder
vestige
retard
testiness
inimitable
39. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
salvage
exploit
malapropism
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
40. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
lavish
extenuate
ignoble
conceit
41. Not normal or usual
gourmand
cant
cower
preternatural
42. Trying to please; obliging
credulous
auspicious
complaisant
hush
43. Supply to much fill to excess
finesse
avow
frugal
glut
44. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
abut
germane
veracity
froward
45. No longer active
uncouth
extinct
agog
perjury
46. Making dear or liked
roll
chicanery
fervor
endearing
47. Customers
rotund
cavalcade
clientele
contemn
48. Song of praise or triumph
gauche
divulge
quaff
paean
49. Lack of seriousness
rift
reminiscent
inveigh
levity
50. Plunder (especially in war)
extol
inclined
garrulous
pillage