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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. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
fecund
protracted
telltale
florid
2. Magnificent
piquant
dexterity
palatial
reprobate
3. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
picaresque
disheveled
spurn
discreet
4. Extreme astounding
beguile
sublime
provoke
serration
5. Person who attacks popular beliefs
iconoclast
savant
brass
sere
6. Hurt by rough handling
maul
euphoria
apropos
imbroglio
7. Certain inevitable
ineluctable
extinct
introspection
riddle
8. Jargon slang
provident
argot
auspicious
edacious
9. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
drawl
credulous
sere
10. Showing no emotion impassive
tortuous
warrant
alacrity
stolid
11. Be unsteady and overturn
molt
topple
acarpous
brazen
12. Lacking solidarity - strength
disheveled
shrill
flimsy
propitious
13. Quick changeable in character fleeting
mercurial
inept
mellifluous
corporeal
14. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
imperviousness
asperity
foment
frantic
15. Dismal - mourful
sinuous
skit
doleful
gouge
16. In enjoy warmth and light
shun
presumption
waffle
bask
17. To stop the flow of a fluid
apprise
stanch
fetid
peremptory
18. Oppose to alcohol
scurvy
teetotal
contentious
barrage
19. Open disobedience or resistance
crease
sumptuous
defiance
garble
20. Harmful or unfriendly
inimical
calumny
inured
onus
21. Call calling of names
forgery
hirsute
disrobe
roll
22. A long passionate speech
harangue
congeal
fidelity
matriculation
23. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
ensconce
reminiscent
divulge
dwarf
24. Dethronement depositing
snare
deposition
meretricious
rubicund
25. Courageous high-spirited
sluggard
obviate
recluse
mettlesome
26. Ending expiring
indolence
expiation
lurk
savant
27. Fearless brave undaunted
collusion
variegate
correlate
intrepid
28. Severe criticism
insipid
scabbard
excoriation
coerce
29. Brief
pertain
transitory
trifling
condense
30. Use extravagant language
stray
rant
truculence
partisan
31. Pedant authority on a subject
pundit
inculcate
accolade
reticence
32. Practicing self-denial austere stark
propitiatory
ascetic
noisome
boisterous
33. To remove obscenity purify censor
expurgate
desultory
arrogance
disdain
34. Wandering
peripatetic
ebullience
indigenous
unfeigned
35. Of mixed colors
bedizen
pied
pervade
oblivious
36. Having plenty of space for what is needed
atonement
ambiguous
expatiate
commodious
37. Cowardly
voluble
craven
teetotal
edacious
38. Able to float light-hearted
middling
aleck
buoyant
incredulous
39. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
refractory
consummate
tepid
evince
40. To frequently visit
retrograde
resort
ambrosial
cornucopia
41. Rubbed off worn away by friction
ignominious
condense
contumacious
abraded
42. Diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
sanction
slate
morbid
foolproof
43. Scold upbraid
platitude
savor
aggravate
reproach
44. Person who is slow waste of time
fringe
sober
dawdler
relapse
45. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
castigation
inferno
foray
46. Individually distinct
sundry
ail
discrete
convoluted
47. State or put forward as a necessary condition
obstreperous
pest
stipulate
thrift
48. Serious requiring consideration
grave
disinter
perpetrate
flaunting
49. Be admitted enter a university as a student
matriculation
obtuse
skiff
equivocate
50. Pretend
feint
palpitate
irresolute
ascend