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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. Customers
reactionary
invincible
clientele
endearing
2. Arrogance
arrogance
boggle
sawdust
presumption
3. Habit or action peculiar to something
fervor
ascend
quirk
entreat
4. Easily understood lucid clear
luculent
impiety
nonchalant
coddle
5. Slow way of speaking
drawl
collusion
stigma
jejune
6. Crawl humble oneself
grouse
grovel
counterfeit
exuberance
7. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
palliate
sophomoric
distrait
perspicacity
8. Giving great attention to details
deviance
negligent
meticulous
minatory
9. Supply to much fill to excess
glut
venal
cumbersome
precursory
10. Mean contemptible
scurvy
cognizant
pliant
diatribe
11. To resist separation
shunt
venal
cling
churl
12. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
tenacity
derogatory
liberality
immaculate
13. To entangle the state of affairs
tamper
stickler
labyrinthine
prosaic
14. Careful/prudent
expurgate
brass
commuter
discreet
15. A lament a melancholy composition
parenthesis
enunciate
elegy
pileous
16. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
variegate
doggerel
unencumbered
spurn
17. Get to the root of
agglutinate
intrepid
livid
plumb
18. To great to be described in words
supersede
assiduous
decorum
ineffable
19. Insubstantial flimsy weak
tenuous
disseminate
efface
flout
20. Regard with deep respect
abide
veneration
vehemence
overweening
21. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
effluvia
hoax
plaque
misogynist
22. Ready to believe things
presentiment
gust
credulous
preen
23. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
rave
pious
discourse
hubris
24. Stupid fellow
inane
hoodwink
dolt
quibble
25. Prolonged
protracted
duplicity
torpid
ineluctable
26. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
excoriation
caustic
sententious
predilection
27. Treachery breaking of faith
perfidy
dote
appease
sobriety
28. Draw out
sundry
divestiture
ebullience
elicit
29. Looking back on past
sadastic
undulate
retrospective
apropos
30. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
eddy
macerate
veneer
hapless
31. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
ford
plummet
frantic
nonchalant
32. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
stentorian
accolade
tamper
simper
33. Low vulgar base tawdry
cadge
raffish
soot
subdue
34. Flow in drops
soot
fission
trickle
treacherous
35. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
whimsical
fringe
nonchalant
hush
36. Cautious wary
perfunctory
lackluster
chary
irrevocable
37. Not pretended sincere
divergence
salutary
unfeigned
laudatory
38. Forgery
disproof
rift
counterfeit
lachrymose
39. A possession
cavalcade
purvey
aplomb
pernicious
40. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
castigate
flout
feral
offhand
41. Summary or outline
bask
synopsis
mollify
lithe
42. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
wile
avid
ingenuous
brittle
43. Make payment to reward punish
exscind
recompense
trickle
quack
44. Healthful
salutary
salubrious
indulge
puerile
45. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
contiguous
cantankerous
hoax
46. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
attenuate
reticent
sagacious
calipers
47. Cause produce give rise to
negligent
veer
parley
engender
48. Instruct; correct morally
superimpose
sordid
refulgent
edify
49. Devious/not straightforward
pulchritude
tortuous
euthanasia
nexus
50. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
constrain
slake
reprobate
evoke