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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. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
alacrity
disproof
connoisseur
imperturbable
2. Obscene
salacious
incredulous
immaculate
delineate
3. Get to know
ascertain
libertine
quail
dissent
4. Easily injured broken or destroyed
complaisant
extenuate
fragile
succumb
5. To join together
cordon
iconoclast
covetous
conjoin
6. To darken make obscure muddle
excoriation
aberration
stride
obfuscate
7. Improve make better
mite
alleviate
exoneration
ameliorate
8. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
buoyant
succumb
dormant
blandness
9. Refrain from be patient ancestor
predilection
forbear
multifarious
inane
10. Drink deeply
luminary
quaff
severance
pillage
11. Sentence within another one something separated
parenthesis
convoluted
undermine
fledgling
12. Recess/partially enclosed place
alcove
buoyant
sumptuous
morbid
13. Pure faultless
sever
immaculate
repast
writ
14. Shout complain with a lot of noise
dwarf
clamor
diatribe
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
15. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
tonic
subdue
gauche
esoteric
16. Treat as a famous person
abacus
impede
foil
lionize
17. Strenuous effort
imperturbable
upbraid
arduous
lien
18. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
perspicacity
summarily
discreet
19. Affirm something to be true
berate
stint
aver
prolix
20. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
pluck
matriculation
proliferate
haughty
21. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
duress
parsimonious
impudent
pliant
22. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
undermine
tenacity
interdict
engrave
23. Commanding haughty arrogant
acumen
blatant
salutary
imperious
24. Trap
antidote
snare
duress
assiduous
25. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
stingy
tarnished
palpitate
recreancy
26. Bring up announce begin to talk about
broach
cordon
regicide
disheveled
27. Heavy with water
inveigh
soggy
entangle
inured
28. Devious/not straightforward
tortuous
derision
sophisticated
coagulation
29. Greedy (esp for money)
condense
woo
burnish
rapacious
30. Offense resentment
desiccant
benevolence
umbrage
incumbents
31. Arrogant conceited
defalcate
haughty
writ
bedizen
32. Make worse irritate
duplicity
striated
aggravate
incite
33. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
tenacity
transitory
scorch
ardor
34. Make tight or smaller
taut
craven
constrict
proliferate
35. Soft light delicate material
perpetrate
gossamer
exorbitant
impromptu
36. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
didactic
sententious
indigenous
submerge
37. Settle a quarrel restore peace
conciliatory
felicitous
viscous
reconcile
38. Lessen the severity of
edify
profane
palliate
gallant
39. Self-confidence
talon
aplomb
solvent
cravat
40. Using pompous words
vitriolic
grandiloquent
gloat
adorn
41. To scorn or despise
sodden
palpability
contemn
coerce
42. Prohibit forbid
interdict
flinch
nonchalant
proliferate
43. Annoy distress trouble
vex
belligerent
pine
disheveled
44. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
inured
foray
retard
indistinct
45. A beginner
feud
sycophant
tyro
glut
46. To assuage to satisfy allay
pine
slake
lament
odium
47. Learned scholarly
desuetude
erudite
fragile
wince
48. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
edacious
castigation
barrage
implacable
49. Heavy bulky dull
eulogy
concord
ponderous
meticulous
50. Member of a vigilance committee
vigilant
apartheid
predominate
salvage