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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. To frequently visit
preternatural
probity
resort
timid
2. Discourage hinder
involute
deter
benevolence
entangle
3. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
hapless
incumbents
extrovert
refractory
4. Warning sign
presage
avid
sober
cower
5. Deceit cunning
belligerent
whimsical
yeoman
guile
6. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
recalcitrant
recluse
effluvia
perjury
7. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
impediment
exorbitant
endeavor
quixotic
8. Looking ill - not bright
holster
heed
coax
wan
9. Cheerful person
implicit
daunt
extrovert
sanity
10. Coming together and uniting into one substance
coalescing
perch
brittle
yarn
11. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
succor
flak
ostentation
pedestrian
12. Treat with care and tenderness
coddle
credulous
astute
forbear
13. Smell (especially pleasant)
scent
voluble
woo
equivocal
14. A riddle dilemma enigma
conundrum
gainsay
relapse
drone
15. Bad-tempered irritable
pillage
libertine
splenetic
refractory
16. Dig up from the earth
diatribe
constrict
reciprocity
disinter
17. Arrogant conceited
intrepid
exculpate
macerate
haughty
18. Production of a desired result
massacre
yeoman
indigenous
efficacy
19. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
bedizen
shrewd
inimical
vitriolic
20. Fix firmly by repetition
chastened
inculcate
recast
propinquity
21. Cheerful casual carefree
abide
plunge
blithe
flout
22. Hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
effrontery
chicanery
obdurate
exploit
23. Line (of police acting as a guard)
barrage
redoubtable
exscind
cordon
24. Person who tells anecdotes
lope
raconteur
dogmatic
contiguous
25. State of doubt or perplexity
boorish
quandary
toady
holster
26. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
mundane
salubrious
felicitous
calisthenics
27. Learned scholarly
clientele
accrue
sanguine
erudite
28. Cause produce give rise to
disconcert
odor
tautology
engender
29. Uncommunicativeness
correlate
astute
somersault
reticence
30. Make beautiful
knit
supercilious
contentious
embellish
31. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
turbid
ignoble
irate
suppliant
32. Plunder (especially in war)
demagogue
strut
pillage
mercurial
33. At be discontented with
repine
slack
imperviousness
loll
34. Something sharp
sting
odor
enzyme
malinger
35. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
veer
paean
prone
gush
36. Formal praise eulogy
quell
countervail
panegyric
plaque
37. Skeptical unwilling to believe
extempore
stigma
incredulous
sawdust
38. Becoming young in nature or appearance
fervor
rejuvenation
expurgate
harangue
39. Severe punishment
castigation
coruscate
recluse
discomfit
40. Be enough
discredit
coagulation
suffice
hallow
41. Avoid
portent
bellicose
eschew
introvert
42. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
timorous
impiety
alacrity
beguile
43. Coming into existence emerging
constrict
nascent
dote
accolade
44. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
irascible
warmonger
edible
glean
45. Strong dislike
whimsical
perfidy
aversion
pine
46. Small sin small weakness in one's character
insularity
peccadillo
coda
quack
47. Make something (pain desire) less
epistle
assuage
arboreal
denouement
48. To remove obscenity purify censor
rapacious
expurgate
skiff
dud
49. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
censure
brazen
constrain
germane
50. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
fatuous
disparate
viscous
knit