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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. Deification glorification to godliness
apotheosis
abdication
antidote
obdurate
2. Not paying proper attention
inadvertent
interim
virago
blandishment
3. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
pique
valiant
elaborate
trifling
4. Attention/give notice to
centurion
heed
maladroit
connoisseur
5. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
conundrum
partisan
tepid
exploit
6. Blessing
emote
infuse
benison
endemic
7. Treat with contempt
onus
meticulous
snub
foment
8. Having a desire to revenge
jabber
vindictive
nibble
grovel
9. Substance become excited
ferment
insipid
mettle
eulogy
10. Essential part force soft liquid substance
pith
upbraid
matriculation
obsequious
11. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
haughty
flaunting
ensconce
recuperate
12. Eager/excited
quaff
esoteric
agog
disheveled
13. Include under a rule
esoteric
offhand
subsume
legacy
14. Shy easily frightened
warmonger
broach
timid
mischievous
15. Angry
peccadillo
hallow
jejune
irate
16. Skill (esp. in handling)
precursors
tenuous
dexterity
baleful
17. Draw together unite firmly
puissance
knit
spurn
amalgamate
18. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
austere
sententious
complaisance
limn
19. Unimportant
mulct
froward
trifling
felicitous
20. Swallow up
decree
engulf
astringent
propitious
21. Unaware having no memory
combustion
plunge
oblivious
hermetic
22. Real rightly named
molt
colander
perpetrate
veritable
23. Try to win
deter
didactic
recompense
woo
24. Lost brightness
tarnished
cognizant
spear
profundity
25. Magnificent
deplete
feud
pariah
palatial
26. Spirit vigor enthusiasm
succor
underbid
plaintive
verve
27. Suggest something in the past
gorge
reminiscent
oblivious
aspersion
28. Appearing TRUE or real
verisimilitude
paradigm
benison
taunt
29. Easily understood lucid clear
lament
drowsiness
verdant
luculent
30. Display to obtain admiration or envy
ostentation
clamor
gallant
discreet
31. Polloi the masses the rabble
cloture
hoi
derogatory
enervate
32. Coming together and uniting into one substance
malleable
coalescing
slate
viscous
33. Formal praise panegyric
fulmination
extricable
eulogy
disencumber
34. Bad-tempered person
salubrious
churl
refine
predominate
35. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
insensible
excoriation
hapless
turgid
36. Extremely loud and powerful
stentorian
flinch
rabble
aversion
37. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
buoyant
sycophant
subpoena
lavish
38. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
graze
jagged
crush
lien
39. Great flood heavy rush of water
coagulation
compunction
edify
deluge
40. Easily gulled
refine
requite
gullible
hermetic
41. Wander lose one's way
stray
resilience
fragile
ostensible
42. A carefree episode or experience
germane
garble
penchant
idyll
43. Of mixed colors
pied
clinch
quaff
talon
44. Taking too little care
rejuvenation
diaphanous
sermon
negligent
45. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
concoct
officious
maudlin
idyll
46. Ending expiring
prevaricate
expiation
nascent
disencumber
47. Noisy and rough
pedantic
blatant
deposition
cloture
48. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
candid
plumb
extenuate
incense
49. Approval (by authority) penalty
conjoin
perfidy
sanction
boisterous
50. Person who hates mankind
quail
sheath
sober
misanthrope