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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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1. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
rarefy
mite
dulcet
collusion
2. Make shorter then was planned
talon
curtail
excoriation
apropos
3. Showing self-control
fluster
temperate
viscous
forbear
4. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
bereft
wile
aspersion
slate
5. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
phlegmatic
sketchy
august
subpoena
6. Change direction suddenly
aseptic
vitiate
swerve
recant
7. Lying; habitually dishonest
highbrow
ingest
impromptu
mendacious
8. Epidemic
tadpole
forfeit
endemic
lugubrious
9. Harmful injurious
torque
nexus
pernicious
dynamo
10. Omen marvelous threatening
castigate
portent
slake
moribund
11. Skeptical unwilling to believe
disinter
extort
plummet
incredulous
12. Increase in density strength make laconic
rescind
abraded
disingenuous
condense
13. Harmful causing mischief
plead
mischievous
render
deplete
14. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
crass
obloquy
indulge
brittle
15. To hesitate raise objections
lurk
incongruous
demur
abeyance
16. Containing warning
admonitory
ebullience
verdant
slake
17. Surprise and fear dismay
superimpose
consternation
approbation
ostensible
18. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
augury
opaqueness
dulcet
enunciate
19. Get to the root of
crass
plumb
discredit
equipoise
20. Bunch of threads
tassel
obtain
epicurean
splenetic
21. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
dawdler
purvey
blase
heretic
22. Bitter protest
bandy
epistle
fulmination
lament
23. One who considers himself smarter than others
aleck
desultory
torque
miser
24. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
spurn
coddle
haughty
ire
25. Existing in a wild or untamed state
obdurate
feral
teetotal
abraded
26. One who turns towards himself
accretion
introvert
mite
rescind
27. Come to grips/settle conclusively
vigilance
nebulous
ominous
clinch
28. Truth
scurvy
chastened
veracity
bedizen
29. Repeal/annul/cancel
incipient
incredulous
blase
rescind
30. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
scabbard
shunt
rabble
quack
31. Uncompromising
cloture
intransigent
mercurial
liberality
32. Bending twisting
minatory
lithe
recluse
hospitable
33. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
sanctimony
palate
endorse
terse
34. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
flout
penury
odious
abet
35. Being uncontrolled violent
trifling
turbulence
taciturn
expurgate
36. Following; attendants
reticent
scribble
retinue
derision
37. Idleness
vacuity
rubicund
engrave
evasive
38. Authority written order guarantee
warrant
rejuvenation
woo
maverick
39. Free giving generosity
liberality
impede
perfidious
chastened
40. Loyalty accuracy
fidelity
repine
obstreperous
impending
41. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
dissemble
pyre
rumple
coddle
42. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
dissemble
reproach
forage
boisterous
43. Sad gloomy miserable
frenetic
dismal
fret
supersede
44. Include under a rule
subsume
redoubtable
irrevocable
conciliatory
45. A possession
mien
perish
cavalcade
recant
46. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
lithe
impiety
indelible
reticence
47. State or put forward as a necessary condition
conviction
variegate
warrant
stipulate
48. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
perch
gist
edible
cavalcade
49. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
subsume
simper
nascent
blandness
50. Fix take up secure metal pin
shallow
morbid
rivet
atonement