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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. Stare at
impecunious
allegiance
fixate
sinuous
2. Make morally bad corrupt
deprave
irrevocable
specious
lucubrate
3. Fairly good but not very good
middling
harangue
fracas
wan
4. Tightly stretched
taut
trencherman
vivacious
gust
5. Rules establishing standards of conduct
inundate
arduous
boggle
precepts
6. Make nervous or confused
pious
stymie
virago
fluster
7. Gloomy dark sullen morose
abacus
riddle
clientele
saturnine
8. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
prone
foppish
neophyte
pyre
9. Hence - awkward
gauche
ferment
imperviousness
enthral
10. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conciliatory
lament
centurion
conceit
11. Make shorter then was planned
abscond
phlegmatic
snub
curtail
12. One who considers himself smarter than others
cloture
aleck
loquacious
importune
13. Have deep respect for
indulge
parsimonious
revere
churlish
14. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
beatify
pitfall
sidestep
epicurean
15. Not to be trusted - perfidious
turbid
connote
treacherous
hapless
16. Legal or judicial inquiry - especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
inquest
conundrum
poncho
sobriquet
17. Refuse to believe
duress
discredit
infuriate
deprecate
18. Illogical of questionable truth or merit
urbane
aspersion
meretricious
specious
19. In a dying state; near death
misogynist
moderation
mischievous
moribund
20. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
pith
waft
rancorous
21. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
decorum
indistinct
gossamer
resilience
22. Long thin move very fast
mite
streak
mince
epitome
23. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
lien
taunt
crease
tadpole
24. Prolonged
malevolence
pusillanimous
fission
protracted
25. Elegant refined in manners
urbane
reticent
plea
elicit
26. A possession
flout
verdant
cavalcade
epitome
27. Angry
scribble
deviance
irate
rueful
28. Of the same period coexisting
ambrosial
coeval
stymie
plummet
29. Narrow-mindedness isolated
cloture
insularity
recant
conviction
30. Corrosive; sarcastic
vitriolic
impiety
ascetic
dogmatic
31. Scarcity a lacking of
propitious
paucity
somatic
malevolence
32. Address a court of law as an advocate
plead
accrue
alacrity
protracted
33. Uncertain risky dangerous
derision
precarious
secular
virago
34. Healthful
rueful
transitory
salubrious
punctilious
35. Likely to be useful for a purpose
expedient
amortize
contentious
valiant
36. Existing in a wild or untamed state
gerontocracy
feral
egress
august
37. Proof to the contrary
suffice
impetuous
disproof
consummate
38. To chastise correct by punishing
fringe
provident
castigate
perjury
39. Punishing
beatify
punitive
tyro
effrontery
40. Favorable successful prosperous
consume
sordid
auspicious
ominous
41. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
amalgamate
dormant
manacle
precepts
42. Mournful excessively sad
heresy
sobriquet
pristine
lugubrious
43. To cause to adhere - as with glue
agglutinate
avow
riddle
paean
44. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
ail
gush
impede
adorn
45. Free from encumbrance
dangle
alleviate
disencumber
implicit
46. Tiny bits of wood
chastisement
recondite
gregarious
sawdust
47. Person appealing not to reasons
impromptu
demagogue
trickle
ambidextrous
48. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
duplicity
glimmer
bilge
conspicuous
49. Dried plum silly person
palpitate
insularity
prune
impute
50. Greenish-blue precious stone
turquoise
derision
pivotal
rave