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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Not easily discouraged or subdued
indomitable
esoteric
constrain
interim
2. Voracious devouring
edacious
extinguish
petulant
shard
3. See with an effort but clearly
discern
treacherous
foil
raffish
4. Insulting tending to damage
fawn
endearing
prosaic
derogatory
5. Regard with deep respect
veneration
crass
plumb
orison
6. Oppose to alcohol
buoyant
ambiguous
vigilant
teetotal
7. Abundant/lavish
imprecation
aspersion
profuse
churl
8. Chains for the hands or feet
lugubrious
manacle
spear
peripatetic
9. No longer active
patron
stray
extinct
flinch
10. Roughness of manner or of surface
desultory
foster
exhaustive
asperity
11. Speech lecture
presentiment
edible
discourse
ire
12. A beggar
mendicant
impassive
telltale
tyro
13. Forcefulness
plaintive
vehemence
knit
deferential
14. Go or come up
ascend
cajole
mien
fulsome
15. Lasting
enduring
coax
repast
privation
16. Gruesome suggesting death
ignoble
cordial
macabre
presumption
17. Ending expiring
rivet
expiation
phlegmatic
patron
18. Substance that shrinks
eloquence
astringent
prolix
pillage
19. Punishment
tortuous
chastisement
procrastination
equanimity
20. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
rotund
figurehead
forswear
feckless
21. Severe suffering
anguish
hoax
blatant
profligacy
22. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
spurn
decree
chastened
conviction
23. Person who has been converted to a belief
invective
neophyte
sanity
obloquy
24. Lessen the severity of
palliate
blatant
gist
exigency
25. Sheath for the blade
reminiscent
scabbard
accrue
teetotal
26. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
forage
temerity
floe
cravat
27. Bitter quarrel over a long period of time
quibble
feud
plummet
husk
28. Worry irritation wear away
quack
uncouth
fret
dulcet
29. Like a rock hard stony
lavish
treacherous
petrous
derivative
30. Undress
inept
epitome
disrobe
rueful
31. To praise highly
disdain
dawdler
extol
fledged
32. Winding undulating serpentine
elicit
sinuous
lachrymose
coeval
33. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
crush
graze
cadge
precursors
34. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
graze
impending
itinerate
verisimilitude
35. Walk heavily
trudge
frenetic
trenchant
paradigm
36. Aud a person of something
repine
philistine
transgress
mulct
37. Being uncontrolled violent
myriad
splenetic
turbulence
jabber
38. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
vex
chastened
ensign
reticent
39. Satisfy fully
obstreperous
effluvia
satiate
craven
40. Formal praise eulogy
espouse
arrant
panegyric
frugal
41. Depth
profundity
interim
impugned
asterisk
42. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
austere
edible
erratic
nugatory
43. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
fluster
pest
ostracism
burnish
44. Gloomy dark sullen morose
saturnine
falter
lumber
vilify
45. Restore something to better condition
ebullient
engrossing
renovate
reproach
46. Heavy with water
vehemence
soggy
reminiscent
discountenance
47. Long strip worn round the waist
sash
benign
pulchritude
shard
48. Call up bring out
evoke
indefatigability
propitious
discourse
49. Demeanor
mien
warmonger
indolence
peripatetic
50. Strong dislike
aversion
somatic
paucity
cloture