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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. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
orison
beatify
valorous
extol
2. Wickedness shamefulness
antithetical
incongruous
turpitude
apprise
3. Suddenly changeable
ineluctable
tangential
distrait
divulge
4. Poverty
indigence
gorge
foolproof
meretricious
5. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
epicurean
expiation
harangue
plaque
6. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
graze
cognizant
divestiture
hollow
7. Hairy shaggy
tarnished
pillage
sumptuous
hirsute
8. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
obloquy
implacable
constrict
orison
9. Mischievous trick played to deceive
hoax
belligerent
insipid
poignant
10. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
deluge
quack
repel
malleable
11. Likely to be useful for a purpose
abdication
ominous
expedient
engender
12. Something sharp
sting
barrage
stray
mollify
13. A raid a sudden attack
finesse
falter
incursion
warmonger
14. Propriety properness
massacre
decorum
derision
preen
15. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
vain
clot
accrue
feint
16. To make an effort - to try very hard
salvage
lionize
repel
endeavor
17. Irritable easily angered
irascible
shunt
aversion
accolade
18. Essentially different
propinquity
delineate
accrue
disparate
19. Write one's name on the back of
minatory
endorse
discredit
permeate
20. Too strong to be defeated
drowsiness
invincible
expostulate
gaucherie
21. Set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
animosity
exoneration
penitent
pinch
22. Slander aspersion
calumny
fulsome
compunction
pugnacious
23. Join (two ends)
superfluous
abide
splice
ebullience
24. Stir up rouse
incite
poignant
livid
foray
25. Chains for the hands or feet
quail
manacle
mien
punctilious
26. Abundant/lavish
profuse
ponderous
barrage
prune
27. Snub
glib
predilection
rebuff
heed
28. Polloi the masses the rabble
hoi
mettlesome
heed
ensconce
29. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
travesty
shunt
vivacious
benison
30. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
decry
picaresque
glut
blandness
31. Call up bring out
tenacity
agile
evoke
involute
32. Abundant supply
pry
ascribe
cornucopia
fawn
33. Overcome bring under control
disconcert
subdue
grandiloquent
doggerel
34. Secret with a hidden meaning
boorish
cryptic
epithet
vitiate
35. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
predilection
assail
commemorate
recreancy
36. Repeal or annul by authority
blandishment
propagation
nadir
abrogate
37. Laziness
reciprocity
calisthenics
indolence
fagged
38. Insubstantial/dull/immature
upbraid
abhor
truce
jejune
39. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
encomium
Conduce
revere
quibble
40. To join together
graze
fetter
limp
conjoin
41. Incapable of being discovered or understood
drawl
duress
decry
inscrutable
42. Bitter and violent attack in words
diatribe
impede
decree
tenacity
43. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
fission
uncouth
fluster
assuage
44. Make or become stiff and solid
berate
congeal
wince
ail
45. Grow forth send out buds
predominate
arrogance
burgeon
wince
46. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
obloquy
droll
opaqueness
overweening
47. Repulsive hateful
assuage
ignoble
disdain
odious
48. Try to deceive by equivocal language
equivocate
audacious
writ
irascible
49. Unlucky
hapless
benevolence
boorish
extralegal
50. Odious (of crime)
paean
adorn
heinous
incorrigibility