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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. Frugal looking to the future
truce
concord
provident
blase
2. Giving facts to support (statement)
substantiation
plumb
penury
lucubrate
3. Witness/evidence
vigilance
presentiment
penury
testiness
4. Truth
veracity
supercilious
droll
deferential
5. Worked out with much care in great detail
elaborate
livid
suborn
ebullient
6. Commonplace trite unremarkable
mundane
precursors
pedestrian
conceal
7. Meant as a joke
dislodge
jocular
impute
transitory
8. Taste flavor something
breach
trickle
aberration
savor
9. Look on with contempt
disdain
discredit
venal
idyll
10. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
tamp
lope
vagary
ramify
11. Person appealing not to reasons
revere
fawn
demagogue
repast
12. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
empirical
pine
forestall
tangential
13. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
flout
aversion
timorous
ruffian
14. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
peregrination
canvass
susceptibility
dwarf
15. To mark with different shade or colors
dynamo
variegate
apropos
admonitory
16. Free giving generosity
gerontocracy
liberality
sinuous
slur
17. Regular customer person who gives support
veneration
patron
quixotic
deviance
18. Asking humbly beseeching
suppliant
hypocrisy
egress
mince
19. Parody/imitation
foppish
travesty
sophomoric
underbid
20. To delight or entertain to feast
irksome
provident
regale
tortuous
21. Lowest weakest point
underbid
nadir
piquant
penury
22. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
bask
neophyte
mesmerize
malleable
23. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
cantankerous
impassive
adamant
enthral
24. Hand or swing loosely
convoke
deferential
dangle
coy
25. Sharp piercing
shrill
suppliant
topple
insularity
26. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
compunction
dearth
fatuous
indistinct
27. Certain inevitable
equipoise
delineate
ignominious
ineluctable
28. To praise highly
ambrosial
extol
preternatural
turbid
29. Wander lose one's way
cravat
riddle
exoneration
stray
30. That cannot be permeated
recompense
impermeable
rift
umbrage
31. Depth
trickle
profundity
reciprocity
slate
32. Direct opposing
antithetical
exoneration
soot
ubiquitous
33. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
gossamer
impassive
dexterity
tractable
34. Well-suited; quick-witted
apt
calumny
insurrection
labyrinthine
35. Cheerful casual carefree
blithe
lionize
agile
quack
36. To resist separation
convoluted
arabesque
cling
untoward
37. To great to be described in words
obtain
scurvy
articulate
ineffable
38. Offensive disgusting (smell)
taut
telltale
noisome
torment
39. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
lurk
truce
waft
extempore
40. Fertile
enmity
portent
fecund
boorish
41. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
canvass
inept
perish
exculpate
42. Bending twisting
asterisk
stint
supine
lithe
43. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
gust
onerous
ineptitude
cower
44. Insulting tending to damage
gaucherie
derogatory
extralegal
prone
45. Feeling doubt
dubious
wile
latent
distrait
46. Place here and there
poncho
procrastination
rejuvenation
intersperse
47. Instruct; correct morally
soggy
edify
foray
perfunctory
48. An outcast a rejected and despised person
edify
opprobrious
pariah
sobriquet
49. Puzzling person or thing
graze
vigorous
riddle
vanquish
50. Coming together and uniting into one substance
accolade
coalescing
narcissism
prune