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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. Done as a duty without care
lumber
obtain
perfunctory
lope
2. That gives warning or information
animosity
pariah
telltale
renovate
3. Patience willingness to wait
doleful
pristine
inquest
forbearance
4. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
repel
rift
forfeit
onus
5. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
centurion
pariah
benign
trenchant
6. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
insipid
simper
flamboyant
precepts
7. Deliver provide represent
sullied
eulogy
render
stray
8. Prevent from carrying out contrast
recuperate
maverick
foil
harbinger
9. Trifling/worthless
odious
centurion
nugatory
impromptu
10. Wickedness shamefulness
turpitude
apprise
calumny
dynamo
11. Straying away from what is normal
adamant
apotheosis
officious
aberration
12. Fearless brave undaunted
craven
heinous
intrepid
macabre
13. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
plummet
grievous
hauteur
benign
14. Sheath for the blade
hoax
inscrutable
scabbard
equable
15. Be destroyed decay
delineate
adamant
vestige
perish
16. Fix firmly by repetition
abraded
inculcate
enzyme
renovate
17. To beg to get by begging
writ
cadge
truce
gauche
18. Repeal or annul by authority
hush
abrogate
irrevocable
deplete
19. Unlucky
froward
hapless
effrontery
pedantic
20. Waste away bite steadily
scalding
verisimilitude
jibe
gnaw
21. Giving great attention to details
meticulous
auspicious
recuperate
ponderous
22. Avoided - kept away from
fagged
shunned
punctilious
indigence
23. Rules establishing standards of conduct
precepts
noisome
boisterous
maudlin
24. Repeal/annul/cancel
cant
weigh
rescind
coagulation
25. Mournful excessively sad
lugubrious
balk
petrous
eloquence
26. Forgery
cogitate
expedient
counterfeit
incessant
27. Disown refuse to accept or pay
repudiate
concur
colander
Palpable
28. Engrave make a cut in
clinch
paradigm
finical
incise
29. Infertile worn out weak
effete
wile
expostulate
baneful
30. Show much fondness center one's attention
dote
encumbrance
incredulous
pinch
31. To frequently visit
antithetical
implacable
resort
malinger
32. Individually distinct
depredation
discrete
abrogate
affinity
33. Weak/unsteady light
laudatory
glimmer
epiphany
sophistry
34. Make morally bad corrupt
deprave
Conduce
console
sequence
35. Not normal or usual
shunt
preternatural
prosaic
eddy
36. Vexation
rescind
chagrin
preponderance
disconcert
37. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
machination
cajole
retrospective
secular
38. Greenish-blue precious stone
turquoise
lien
sober
homiletics
39. Trace or sign
recast
vestige
suppress
lumber
40. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
chagrin
wanton
timid
stifled
41. Try to win
euthanasia
dawdler
woo
vacillation
42. Showing earnest feeling
august
intransigent
fervid
wince
43. Postpone
euphoria
intransigent
disingenuous
defer
44. Strong convincing
appease
impetuous
cogent
propagation
45. Compel
correlate
molt
constrain
hoi
46. Becoming rotten
equable
telltale
putrefaction
excoriation
47. Very great number
reminiscent
panegyric
facetious
myriad
48. Hypnotize
mesmerize
implicit
diatribe
urbane
49. Brave
squat
indolence
valorous
bequest
50. Make or become pure cultural
refine
arrogance
stifled
morose