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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. Lower the quality weaken the strength
vitiate
facile
maul
exscind
2. Fearless brave undaunted
imminent
intrepid
drone
consequential
3. Easily shocked excessively modest
officious
rave
seminal
prudish
4. Cheerful person
perish
philistine
cryptic
extrovert
5. Sharpness stinging quality
pungency
parley
ossify
reticence
6. Bring into harmony
alleviate
libel
resigned
attune
7. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
overhaul
tenuous
flop
shrill
8. Get to know
corporeal
shunt
ascertain
eloquence
9. To be involved
preternatural
implicate
presentiment
incorrigibility
10. An inexperienced person.
abut
infuse
mundane
fledgling
11. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
unearth
impute
penitent
vehemence
12. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
sluggard
indulge
aggravate
maladroit
13. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
condone
cant
eschew
salutary
14. To hesitate raise objections
demur
odor
prudence
sinuous
15. Cast or fashion anew
coda
recast
suborn
cling
16. Cheerful confident optimistic
equivocate
sanguine
floe
counterfeit
17. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
timid
quixotic
timorous
thwart
18. Distracted violently upset in mind
plea
turbid
fluster
distraught
19. Haughtiness
nonplused
repine
pluck
hauteur
20. Paint portray
temperate
foment
ponderous
limn
21. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
lionize
laudatory
pluck
perjury
22. Feeling or showing deep respect
grandiloquent
reverent
recalcitrant
ruffian
23. A song of grief or lamentation
pedantic
tangential
censure
dirge
24. To take in marriage
espouse
implicate
slack
discrete
25. Of mixed colors
pied
transgress
mundane
sanctimony
26. Polite and friendly
ardor
eddy
lithe
affable
27. Attract - lure
stymie
discreet
entice
perish
28. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
countervail
benign
turmoil
impassive
29. Dig up from the earth
prolix
adamant
disinter
impiety
30. Address a court of law as an advocate
plead
connotation
maladroit
hauteur
31. To equivocate to stray from the truth
contumacious
prevaricate
underbid
dissent
32. To complain
grumble
concoct
steeply
pied
33. Blocked up
eschew
blithe
sententious
occluded
34. To favor or approve of
countenance
tangential
unearth
correlate
35. Flood cover by overflowing
perfunctory
inundate
torment
viscous
36. Easily injured broken or destroyed
ostracism
beguile
trencherman
fragile
37. Eager/excited
irascible
agog
dogmatic
palatial
38. Steady regular
sever
equable
deprave
rubicund
39. Glut
plethora
intrepid
jagged
fulmination
40. Personal mannerism
noxious
discourse
fragrant
idiosyncrasy
41. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
perilous
rarefy
efficacy
incipient
42. Warmth of feelings earnestness
abeyance
stigma
esoteric
fervor
43. Sham counterfeit not genuine
shunned
garrulous
rumple
bogus
44. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
barren
gouge
stipple
servile
45. Infertile worn out weak
effete
lachrymose
lumber
propinquity
46. Brief and to the point
veneration
terse
rarefy
conceit
47. (adj) boorish
idolatry
nadir
preponderance
churlish
48. Quality or condition of being sober
sobriety
propagation
gerontocracy
aver
49. Hairy shaggy
hirsute
renowned
beguile
sanction
50. Eagerly desirous
insinuate
fatuous
covetous
concord