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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. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
contentious
decorum
hoi
forgery
2. Undress
tenuous
disrobe
gist
combustion
3. Hurt by rough handling
abeyance
maul
excoriation
incursion
4. Mix combine unite societies
audacious
amalgamate
decry
exculpate
5. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
steeply
cordon
trepidation
sanctimony
6. FALSE counterfeit
lumber
spurious
ambivalent
exuberance
7. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
jabber
froward
turbulence
shunned
8. A possession
equivocal
impending
cavalcade
misogynist
9. Step to one side
sidestep
sodden
chagrin
imperious
10. Harmful or unfriendly
consummate
depredation
inimical
swerve
11. Ending expiring
yarn
fervor
constrain
expiation
12. Measure hoe heavy something is
weigh
perch
gallant
profuse
13. To shackle put in chains
catalyst
fetter
quibble
obsequious
14. Relying on experiment
fragrant
inundate
repulsive
empirical
15. Make rough
sophistry
rumple
somatic
involute
16. Direct opposing
inchoate
antithetical
servile
redeem
17. Prohibit forbid
figurehead
aggravate
rebuff
interdict
18. Hide keep secret
hospitable
impassive
conceal
peccadillo
19. Representing the whole Christian world
smolder
ecumenical
abeyance
nexus
20. Eager and cheerful readiness
incumbents
alacrity
rescind
crush
21. Dismal - mourful
satiate
doleful
attune
combustion
22. To be involved
deprecate
disproof
implicate
hoi
23. Severe pain or suffering
impede
torment
suborn
rebuff
24. Strong dislike
squat
philistine
peccadillo
aversion
25. One who loves mankind
itinerate
enigma
philanthropist
halcyon
26. Flattery coaxing
halcyon
blandishment
prodigal
discrete
27. Rich and deep plump and round
hypocrisy
satiate
rotund
chastened
28. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
edible
boggle
propitious
trepidation
29. Close connection relationship
ramify
affinity
vacuity
baleful
30. Commonplace trite unremarkable
lugubrious
precursors
dismal
pedestrian
31. Get to the end of
intransigent
consume
chisel
rebuff
32. Proud superior manner of behaviour
arrogance
libel
sententious
assuage
33. Of the same period coexisting
arrogance
coeval
meticulous
rejuvenation
34. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
blandness
accrue
phlegmatic
contentious
35. Soaked saturated
sodden
volubility
gainsay
exploit
36. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
lien
shunned
grievous
castigation
37. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
somatic
imprecation
pest
fluster
38. Harmful injurious
pernicious
harangue
aver
coerce
39. Magnificent
dismal
sumptuous
augury
falter
40. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
yeoman
sordid
wean
41. Make (pain) easier to bear
effluvia
alleviate
aver
disproof
42. Tiresome
encapsulate
chaste
irksome
jejune
43. Taste flavor something
venal
obstreperous
visceral
savor
44. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
itinerate
antithetical
stentorian
coagulation
45. Furiously angry - enraged
valorous
fagged
anguish
livid
46. Border on
abraded
poignant
abut
somatic
47. Trick mislead
hoodwink
mischievous
taut
fluster
48. Omen sign
narcissism
baneful
cantankerous
augury
49. Like a rock hard stony
constrain
mulct
petrous
cavalcade
50. Urgent essential
shrill
imperative
extirpate
cognizant