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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. Unimportant
misogynist
enunciate
trifling
bogus
2. Relying on experiment
empirical
gainsay
conjoin
arrogance
3. Disguised
tangential
coruscate
covert
vagary
4. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
sublime
secular
gouge
contentious
5. Waste away through sorrow or illness
topple
coddle
pine
intransigence
6. Ready and smooth but not sincere
glib
pitfall
pristine
obloquy
7. Meal
thrift
dormant
repast
splenetic
8. Something sharp
lithe
commemorate
sting
vituperate
9. Coming into existence emerging
vain
nascent
terse
approbation
10. Personal mannerism
idiosyncrasy
extol
retinue
dearth
11. Causing tears tearful
resuscitation
lachrymose
harbinger
evoke
12. Easily broken
brittle
lament
glean
antidote
13. Speech lecture
erratic
discourse
wag
redeem
14. Move restlessly make nervous
predilection
detumescence
parsimonious
fidget
15. Neat formal
suborn
chauvinist
prim
misogynist
16. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
heed
ostracism
connoisseur
mendacity
17. Brave -behaves well with women
voluble
gallant
aversion
duplicity
18. Get something inquire too curiously
asterisk
eschew
pry
refractory
19. Corrosive; sarcastic
dupe
toady
vitriolic
heed
20. Too talkative
insouciant
caustic
garrulous
evoke
21. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
sophistry
fetid
dirge
exigency
22. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
maudlin
incumbents
sheath
foray
23. Becoming rotten
drowsiness
precursory
putrefaction
coax
24. To chastise correct by punishing
castigate
verve
flaunting
grievous
25. Make rough
rumple
epiphany
euthanasia
steeply
26. Forgive
surfeit
shrewd
condone
striated
27. Be guilty commit (a crime)
parsimonious
perpetrate
recuperate
sophomoric
28. Temporary fleeting
soggy
transient
untoward
patron
29. Close connection relationship
affinity
insurrection
abdication
facile
30. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
qualm
luculent
pristine
jibe
31. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
heinous
deter
picaresque
subpoena
32. Blocked up
catalyst
uncouth
ascend
occluded
33. Punishment
peccadillo
gregarious
chastisement
idolatry
34. That can be freed
aspersion
extricable
reciprocity
ostensible
35. Tightly stretched
lumber
taut
punctilious
rebus
36. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
expostulate
ale
peremptory
erudite
37. Repeal/annul/cancel
obviate
benign
rescind
mellifluous
38. Situated beyond
apt
pique
taunt
ulterior
39. Patience willingness to wait
forbearance
provoke
extort
paradigm
40. Confuse embarrass
discomfit
chastened
petrified
extinct
41. Arrangement to give something at death
bequest
gist
embezzle
stride
42. Essential part force soft liquid substance
foible
pith
maladroit
repast
43. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
connoisseur
undulate
wan
pristine
44. Agreeably pungent stimulating
contentious
equipoise
mince
piquant
45. Get somebody to do something by kindness
coax
scabbard
alcove
chisel
46. Get rid of pull up by the roots
undulate
eradicate
curtail
sententious
47. Speak distinctly connect by joints
splice
articulate
illicit
conceal
48. Join (two ends)
splice
vivacious
ascend
meticulous
49. Responsilibilty -burden
ascend
overweening
onus
recondite
50. Fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
volubility
misanthrope
meretricious
exploit