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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. To hate to detest
abhor
recompense
occluded
innocuous
2. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
puerile
thwart
florid
spear
3. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
brass
welter
clientele
dormant
4. Urgent essential
rumple
impermeable
serration
imperative
5. Attract - lure
prone
sober
toady
entice
6. Move quickly suddenly and with force
raffish
cordial
impute
plunge
7. Celebrated famous
renowned
flamboyant
squander
limn
8. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
dereliction
fragile
prevaricate
anguish
9. To complain
grumble
epiphany
accolade
covert
10. Brief
nugatory
uncouth
foil
transitory
11. Feeling of regret for one's action
burgeon
apt
indulgent
compunction
12. Showing respect
deferential
hypocrisy
endeavor
squat
13. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
topple
ascribe
precepts
14. Draw out
elicit
sash
regale
chisel
15. Stubborn narrow-minded person
pristine
bigot
peregrination
exigency
16. Final and unalterable
plea
irrevocable
suffice
epitome
17. Shyness
derogatory
accretion
judicious
diffidence
18. Being bright polished
lustrous
sere
apostate
incorrigibility
19. Worked out with much care in great detail
prudence
insinuate
delineate
elaborate
20. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
wean
remonstrate
parley
propinquity
21. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
deprecate
dubious
suppress
22. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
ossify
canvass
frugal
fleet
23. Formal reception/embankment
luminary
prevalent
swerve
levee
24. Done as a duty without care
redoubtable
perfunctory
abhor
emote
25. Prevent make impossible
didactic
tonic
wanton
preclude
26. Dig up from the earth
nadir
splenetic
disinter
cumbersome
27. Taking too little care
falter
negligent
valiant
ambidextrous
28. Stare at
incumbents
onerous
macabre
fixate
29. Over look at with selfish delight
vitriolic
irksome
benefactor
gloat
30. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
floe
multifarious
savor
collusion
31. Sheath for the blade
pedantic
commemorate
tassel
scabbard
32. Song of praise or triumph
impassive
paean
cordon
ardor
33. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
ineluctable
lien
pertain
turbid
34. Person who loves wealth and spends little
miser
stickler
proclivity
superfluous
35. Make a lower bid then somebody else
delineate
onerous
underbid
veracity
36. Satisfy fully
satiate
audacious
renowned
germane
37. Serious requiring consideration
enervate
grave
garble
renovate
38. Tiny bits of wood
cohort
soggy
sawdust
accretion
39. Show bodily or mental pain
wince
ascend
strut
soot
40. Bold
lackluster
audacious
malinger
profuse
41. Add beauty; decorate
orison
adulteration
pernicious
adorn
42. The point general sense
gist
sting
complaisance
astute
43. Bad-tempered person
churl
tarnished
benison
forgery
44. Idleness
refractory
stygian
alloy
vacuity
45. Cowardly
perfidy
craven
gregarious
foppish
46. Magnificent
equivocate
relapse
profligate
sumptuous
47. Feeling sleepy half asleep
pinch
dislodge
loll
drowsiness
48. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
ardor
equivocal
nascent
cantankerous
49. Treacherous faithless
levity
myriad
neophyte
perfidious
50. Take the place of
imprecation
flak
supersede
castigate