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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. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
rancorous
divulge
blithe
portent
2. Request
plea
accolade
sophistry
imperative
3. Crime of killing a king
regicide
duplicity
dynamo
derision
4. Arrogant conceited
haughty
quotidian
illicit
expurgate
5. Additional load/charge
discredit
surcharge
homiletics
propitious
6. Cause produce give rise to
latent
engender
aberration
proclivity
7. Cheerful person
quell
surcharge
reminiscent
extrovert
8. Give comfort or sympathy to
console
burnish
implosion
truce
9. Special liking mental preference
cryptic
predilection
edible
expedient
10. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
recalcitrant
ostensible
loquacious
11. Much too high or great
hush
cohort
recompense
exorbitant
12. Get to the root of
contemn
plumb
propinquity
inimitable
13. Well-suited; quick-witted
discrete
lionize
apt
auxiliary
14. Intimidate make fearful
heed
paean
mettlesome
daunt
15. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
erratic
fixate
incessant
agog
16. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
immutable
tepid
implacable
resilience
17. Hairy shaggy
conundrum
salacious
provident
hirsute
18. Protest against express disapproval of
recluse
noisome
deprecate
effete
19. Dethronement depositing
drowsiness
deposition
maudlin
elaborate
20. To delight or entertain to feast
stygian
talon
regale
benign
21. Refuse to approve of
beatify
discountenance
mollify
quiescence
22. To chastise correct by punishing
castigate
suborn
impugned
cumbersome
23. Act with excessive enthusiasm
rumple
tenacity
rave
fledgling
24. Noisy loud
obstreperous
decorum
sententious
congeal
25. Adjective
riddle
haughty
benison
epithet
26. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
ecumenical
lachrymose
pest
phlegmatic
27. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
cajole
fawn
imprecation
fragile
28. Liking to give hospitality
terse
hospitable
flax
fragile
29. Renounce disallow repudiate
forswear
diffidence
sundry
reactionary
30. Crawl humble oneself
reverent
emaciate
ameliorate
grovel
31. Cessation of use disuse
dubious
desuetude
obfuscate
forbear
32. Spend wastefully
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
squander
nonchalant
irrevocable
33. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
embellish
derogatory
denouement
abdication
34. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
vain
chaste
amortize
deviance
35. Emergency an urgent situation
edify
misogynist
petrified
exigency
36. Notched
gregarious
voluptuous
expatiate
jagged
37. Secret with a hidden meaning
cryptic
subsume
verdant
delineate
38. To frequently visit
resort
pliant
drawl
knit
39. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
labyrinthine
requite
precursory
molt
40. Trifling/worthless
nugatory
spurious
molt
indigenous
41. Delicate way of dealing with a situation
retrospective
heretic
finesse
dormant
42. Person who lives alone and avoids people
shun
recluse
imprecation
philistine
43. Extremely pleasing to taste
resilience
ambrosial
alcove
immaculate
44. Humorous funny jocular
curriculum
facetious
asperity
iconoclast
45. Complicated and embarrassing situation
mercurial
imbroglio
cajole
barrage
46. Happening from time to time
ambivalent
vex
sporadic
variegate
47. Reserved; indifferent
foolproof
parenthesis
aloof
vigilance
48. Celebrated famous
importune
obloquy
voluble
renowned
49. Reddish - healthy-looking
ruddy
fracas
exuberance
droll
50. Agreement or harmony
inculcate
egress
buoyant
concord