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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. Stir up excite
appease
florid
emote
proclivity
2. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
volubility
blithe
sequence
fatuous
3. Be unsteady and overturn
topple
scalding
recidivism
rebuff
4. To clear from a charge of guilt
exculpate
somersault
trepidation
exuberance
5. Practicing self-denial austere stark
mundane
transgress
ascetic
floe
6. Make (pain) easier to bear
raconteur
alleviate
reciprocity
reconcile
7. Hand or swing loosely
dangle
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
ecumenical
obtain
8. Skeptical unwilling to believe
verdant
quaff
incredulous
desuetude
9. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
shun
wan
succumb
10. Put into difficulties
pugnacious
epitome
extrovert
entangle
11. Making unpure poorer in quality
incursion
exculpate
adulteration
scurvy
12. Epidemic
soporific
endemic
malapropism
shrewd
13. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
impassive
slate
ferment
diatribe
14. Forgery
peripatetic
counterfeit
forswear
concur
15. Fond of in the habit of fighting
denouement
denigrate
precarious
pugnacious
16. Asking humbly beseeching
quaff
suppliant
slur
insensible
17. Incapable of failure or error
impiety
rife
foolproof
homiletics
18. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
figurehead
sheath
floe
entangle
19. Join (two ends)
warmonger
abraded
splice
supercilious
20. Pure faultless
abeyance
quandary
immaculate
contumacious
21. Various miscellaneous separate
cavalcade
denigrate
pundit
sundry
22. Regular customer person who gives support
patron
recuperate
indolence
forswear
23. State of growing vigorously being full of life
reticent
exuberance
inclined
curriculum
24. To venture
castigate
importune
foray
maladroit
25. Being fully aware of
forge
cognizant
slake
caustic
26. Neat formal
assuage
evasive
prim
wan
27. Improve make better
ameliorate
suffice
ascend
agglutinate
28. Keeping on putting off
precursors
subsume
aberration
procrastination
29. Overcome bring under control
endorse
discreet
foolproof
subdue
30. Taking too little care
interim
agglutinate
negligent
impute
31. Agree in opinion happen together
ascribe
nonplused
lien
concur
32. Not new
fledgling
extol
pertain
trite
33. Act of preaching
disheveled
peregrination
atonement
homiletics
34. Duty support loyalty
disrobe
pileous
holster
allegiance
35. Easy and painless death
shrewd
sophomoric
indolence
euthanasia
36. Disown refuse to accept or pay
repudiate
assiduous
facetious
hew
37. Tactless clumsy
iconoclast
ostracism
nadir
maladroit
38. Severing
vitriolic
severance
cordon
inscrutable
39. Cessation of use disuse
coerce
fetter
desuetude
quail
40. Easily seen remarkable
conspicuous
connoisseur
pariah
malapropism
41. Careful forethought
peccadillo
prudence
purvey
noisome
42. Distracted violently upset in mind
distraught
malleable
presage
impugned
43. Promise or swear to give up
resigned
spurn
abjure
inimical
44. Corrosive; sarcastic
officious
fagged
vitriolic
demagogue
45. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
disseminate
propitious
disproof
inimitable
46. Make a lower bid then somebody else
dilate
underbid
disrobe
fervid
47. Noisy quarrel
mite
stingy
fracas
waft
48. Trifling/worthless
cryptic
muffler
nugatory
requite
49. Hell
derogatory
connote
inferno
strive
50. Responsilibilty -burden
incessant
disinter
onus
agog