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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
dud
curtail
endemic
2. Person who tells anecdotes
wend
raconteur
felon
trepidation
3. Essentially different
florid
disparate
conjoin
shunt
4. To protest object
squander
pitfall
chastisement
remonstrate
5. To be thrifty to set limits
soar
multifarious
stint
ascribe
6. Active quick-moving
contentious
ignoble
agile
facetious
7. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
fret
churlish
obtrusive
opaqueness
8. Having a toothed edge
torment
slate
rebuff
serration
9. Direct opposing
perfidious
plaintive
drowsiness
antithetical
10. State of being passive/motionless
preen
quiescence
deprave
treacherous
11. Unspoken - silent
presumption
taciturn
indefatigability
clot
12. Snub
importune
rebuff
disinter
fluke
13. Catalyst
enzyme
reprobate
hush
fidelity
14. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
ensconce
retrospective
roll
extinguish
15. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
rapacious
rumple
bilge
incumbents
16. Drink deeply
quaff
contentious
propinquity
encumbrance
17. Make shorter then was planned
yarn
curtail
pious
germane
18. Government ruled by old people
flimsy
trencherman
gerontocracy
piquant
19. Trivial poorly constructed verse
simper
assiduous
morose
doggerel
20. Depth
disheveled
noxious
blandness
profundity
21. Swallow up
lumber
engulf
consummate
plethora
22. Settle a quarrel restore peace
pine
reconcile
stint
stifled
23. Jesting
Conduce
commodious
miser
droll
24. Aud a person of something
elicit
specious
inferno
mulct
25. Person guilty of murder
sanction
sidestep
profundity
felon
26. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
shun
flax
parenthesis
resilience
27. To tolerate endure
brook
imprecation
snub
petrify
28. To chastise correct by punishing
malevolence
castigate
plaintive
flaunting
29. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
convoke
conviction
convoluted
fringe
30. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
preen
apprehensive
halcyon
eulogy
31. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
shun
deferential
trenchant
fragrant
32. Wickedness shamefulness
turpitude
wan
insensible
effluvia
33. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
indefatigability
benign
penury
abut
34. Lowest weakest point
paean
discrete
floe
nadir
35. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
demur
gourmand
glut
colloquial
36. Abundant supply
solvent
susceptibility
cornucopia
apropos
37. Lacking solidarity - strength
flimsy
glimmer
antidote
fawn
38. Causing no harm
rescind
eulogy
coax
innocuous
39. An outcast a rejected and despised person
introspection
pertain
pariah
prosaic
40. To polish rub to a shine
supine
burnish
moderation
precepts
41. Traveling about wandering
apprise
forfeit
peregrination
indistinct
42. Disobedient
qualm
recalcitrant
benevolence
vain
43. Fearful timid afraid
fret
timorous
taciturn
provisional
44. Rubbed off worn away by friction
eloquence
animosity
abraded
glean
45. Interfere with
expedient
tamper
raconteur
rarefy
46. Quality of endurance or courage
mettle
sequence
regale
diaphanous
47. Inclined to indulge
putrefaction
poignant
indulgent
consequential
48. Parody/imitation
belabor
bogus
travesty
exculpate
49. Giving up control authority
perjury
seminal
abdication
penitent
50. Beginning
sawdust
dissemble
incipient
malleable