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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. Transparent gauzy
derision
immaculate
dormant
diaphanous
2. To make great efforts - to struggle
discountenance
alleviate
strive
fixate
3. Smell (especially pleasant)
rivet
scent
resilience
dearth
4. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
ambidextrous
incredulous
agog
inveigh
5. Haughty arrogant commanding
rebuff
imperviousness
taut
dilate
6. Catch sight of see something in the distance
steeply
epiphany
descry
beatify
7. To protest object
remonstrate
torment
shun
ingest
8. Prayer
cavalcade
impudent
soporific
orison
9. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
rapacious
drone
argot
indistinct
10. Forcefulness
tawdry
presage
doleful
vehemence
11. Put pour fill
recondite
infuse
beguile
chastisement
12. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
revere
baneful
resigned
impetuous
13. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
beguile
ineptitude
fidget
engrossing
14. Individually distinct
discrete
congeal
secular
lull
15. Abusive language curses
peremptory
recondite
invective
blandishment
16. Discover by searching search
ferret
husk
ascend
dupe
17. Describe somebody scornfully
inured
stigmatize
trifling
mendicant
18. Speak comprehensively become wider large
discomfit
dilate
abysmal
dereliction
19. Surgically clean
supine
untoward
aseptic
subdue
20. That cannot be changed
evoke
regale
quandary
immutable
21. Wrinkle
ebullience
pucker
stigmatize
ecumenical
22. Difficult to comprehend obscure
concord
contumacious
pariah
abstruse
23. Calm and peaceful
vacillation
halcyon
exhaustive
consequential
24. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
satiate
insinuate
breach
woo
25. Annoy distress trouble
tractable
vex
myriad
lackluster
26. Being uncontrolled violent
paucity
turbulence
august
penury
27. Close connection relationship
vehemence
entangle
affinity
importune
28. Containing warning
admonitory
malevolence
macabre
apprise
29. Long thin move very fast
rarefy
succor
streak
vacuity
30. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
lavish
foster
reproach
sporadic
31. To be involved
recant
obfuscate
chastened
implicate
32. Of the power of forming a solution
solvent
hone
inimitable
impiety
33. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
aver
divestiture
esoteric
cajole
34. Opening broken place breaking
philistine
breach
enervate
indolence
35. Show much fondness center one's attention
dote
aspersion
pitfall
perpetrate
36. Unaware having no memory
oblivious
foray
enmity
quandary
37. Helping supporting
odor
droll
auxiliary
brook
38. Spend wastefully
squander
redoubtable
rapacious
relapse
39. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
gorge
ossify
penitent
suffice
40. Gather facts in small quantities
arduous
coax
glean
muffler
41. Incapable of failure or error
moderation
foolproof
reverent
fatuous
42. Pedant authority on a subject
pundit
coy
solvent
derision
43. Appropriate to the situation apt
apropos
incursion
halcyon
infuse
44. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
resilience
wile
hubris
garrulous
45. Blunt/stupid
slate
steeply
obtuse
stipple
46. Threats to compel somebody
provoke
fagged
insouciant
duress
47. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
morose
profane
evasive
48. Urgent essential
sundry
impassive
imperative
soar
49. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
defalcate
impetuous
cloture
puerile
50. Fluent
holster
paradigm
voluble
ambrosial