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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
tractable
aseptic
idiosyncrasy
austere
2. A generator something that produces electric current
dynamo
counterfeit
gouge
unscathed
3. Number of ships quick-moving
sophomoric
demur
fleet
jabber
4. A beggar
mendicant
lionize
untoward
valorous
5. Admit; declare openly
trifling
muffler
cajole
avow
6. (of eyes) dull
lackluster
waffle
ascribe
serration
7. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
froward
teetotal
grievous
proliferate
8. Continue doing something without resting
insouciant
reticence
plod
chagrin
9. Lukewarm
curriculum
quiescence
coy
tepid
10. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
rubicund
precarious
introspection
glean
11. Widespread
rife
hauteur
aggravate
extinct
12. Call calling of names
thwart
vigilant
chary
roll
13. Threats to compel somebody
duress
cantankerous
broach
wanton
14. Set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
miser
intransigence
tyro
exoneration
15. Describe somebody scornfully
morose
stigmatize
amalgamate
abraded
16. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
palate
derision
prolix
derogatory
17. Fix firmly by repetition
plaque
elegy
stygian
inculcate
18. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
ingenuous
countervail
cohort
ineptitude
19. Omen marvelous threatening
portent
arabesque
coalescing
vagary
20. To be established accepted or customary
timid
terse
divestiture
obtain
21. Fearful timid afraid
lionize
compunction
timorous
erratic
22. Promise or swear to give up
indefatigability
abjure
vigilance
enunciate
23. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
slake
hone
enthral
24. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
dissent
rapacious
perjury
squander
25. Shortage
dearth
flop
droll
obtain
26. Biting sarcastic
correlate
diffidence
caustic
verdant
27. Dethronement depositing
deposition
precursors
facile
penury
28. Use extravagant language
snare
undulate
recast
rant
29. Get something inquire too curiously
soot
pry
recuperate
grandiloquent
30. Forcefulness
vehemence
mite
repel
incise
31. Write one's name on the back of
fluster
endorse
shunt
reminiscent
32. Rising of people to open resistance to
insurrection
chaste
effrontery
forage
33. Fearless brave undaunted
veracity
striated
intrepid
desiccant
34. Deep-rooted. long-established
vigilance
dogmatic
inimical
inveterate
35. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
indomitable
tenacity
enduring
offhand
36. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
pitfall
imperturbable
blandishment
incumbents
37. Great flood heavy rush of water
feud
severance
deluge
dilate
38. Order given by authority
decree
introvert
superfluous
bereft
39. Threatening
soar
ominous
upbraid
impudent
40. Incapable of failure or error
deprave
foolproof
pique
soar
41. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
talon
tenacity
relapse
whimsical
42. Make or become pure cultural
falter
infuriate
derivative
refine
43. Corrected punished
chastened
incipient
daunt
grandiloquent
44. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
cabal
manacle
implosion
apprehensive
45. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
defalcate
indistinct
chary
rancorous
46. (person nation) waging war
belligerent
pristine
truce
alloy
47. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
trickle
teetotal
apropos
volatile
48. Frame with balls for calculating
philistine
inclined
abacus
counterfeit
49. Silly senseless
inane
finical
inclined
discrete
50. Warning sign
levity
remonstrate
voluptuous
presage