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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. Of the power of forming a solution
affable
solvent
forestall
opprobrious
2. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
disallow
pliant
insinuate
shrill
3. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
avid
edible
impugned
pedestrian
4. Lowest weakest point
inadvertent
nadir
profligate
prodigal
5. Worry irritation wear away
indolence
fret
satiate
precursory
6. Of connected with trees
harangue
insularity
sophomoric
arboreal
7. Settle a quarrel restore peace
reconcile
aplomb
minatory
credulous
8. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
pucker
mettle
noisome
bilge
9. To turn away (from a habit)
wean
countervail
strive
mundane
10. Like a rock hard stony
mundane
obloquy
petrous
chisel
11. Certain inevitable
assuage
dainty
abet
ineluctable
12. Touching neighboring near
assuage
affinity
contiguous
prudence
13. Demeanor
regicide
defer
mien
offhand
14. Show off complacently
flaunting
bilge
astute
feral
15. Imminent being about to happen expected
reticent
efficacy
impending
defer
16. Accumulate
ostensible
nadir
accrue
candid
17. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
stentorian
visceral
hoi
apprehensive
18. Praise approval
nebulous
precursory
dirge
accolade
19. A quack remedy an untested cure
petrify
itinerate
abet
nostrum
20. Small sin small weakness in one's character
edify
ostensible
peccadillo
ponderous
21. Close connection relationship
epistle
consummate
affinity
pique
22. Meant as a joke
console
jocular
ambidextrous
tout
23. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
blase
trickle
lope
soar
24. Additional strengthening evidence
scabbard
buoyant
coalescing
corroboration
25. Obtain by threats violence
exuberance
transitory
cryptic
extort
26. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
reiterate
obloquy
somersault
aversion
27. State of growing vigorously being full of life
cant
encomium
concord
exuberance
28. Spending using unwillingly
inept
stingy
rancorous
grovel
29. Bombastic
deluge
fustian
entice
pinch
30. Give notice to inform
incite
implicate
apprise
liberality
31. To shackle put in chains
bequest
fetter
torment
vilify
32. Feeling sleepy half asleep
drowsiness
wag
enunciate
ponderous
33. To make unnecessary get rid of
dismal
lachrymose
abraded
obviate
34. Asking humbly beseeching
suppliant
peremptory
inept
warrant
35. Giving facts to support (statement)
pusillanimous
weigh
substantiation
pungency
36. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
figurehead
precursors
exculpate
impudent
37. Individually distinct
discrete
palpability
approbation
daunt
38. The saving of property from loss
venal
simper
salvage
gaucherie
39. Spread through every part of
premature
grandiloquent
pervade
barren
40. Complain or grumble (verb)
grouse
voluble
arrogance
petrified
41. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
equable
grouse
dissolution
42. Without preparation
convoluted
impromptu
cordial
convoke
43. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
hew
heresy
deviance
disparate
44. Number of ships quick-moving
sere
fleet
obstreperous
animosity
45. Abundant/lavish
reticent
chisel
pugnacious
profuse
46. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
attune
transgress
impetuous
serrated
47. Bring into harmony
attune
premature
corroboration
sash
48. Insulting tending to damage
concord
slake
entangle
derogatory
49. Widespread
offhand
embellish
rife
baleful
50. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
discrete
stipple
epicurean
ambidextrous