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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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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. Pretend
exuberance
ingenuous
feint
purvey
2. Exuberance outburst of feeling
ebullience
dirge
broach
platitude
3. To deny to oppose
precarious
gainsay
enigma
extol
4. Sham counterfeit not genuine
travesty
undulate
bogus
subdue
5. Take the whole attention - enslave
enthral
dearth
barren
fragrant
6. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
equilibrium
importune
lumber
vigilant
7. Too eager to obey or serve
obsequious
grievous
colloquial
myriad
8. Yield - die
lassitude
succumb
somatic
shrewd
9. Like a slave lacking independence
lugubrious
servile
raconteur
livid
10. Offensive disgusting (smell)
noisome
grovel
sophisticated
complaisant
11. Make a lower bid then somebody else
malleable
indefatigability
dissemble
underbid
12. Something sharp
embellish
sting
contemn
canvass
13. Postpone
prone
ascertain
cloture
defer
14. To praise highly
extol
pry
espouse
imbroglio
15. Additional strengthening evidence
ecumenical
corroboration
boisterous
minatory
16. Sealed by fusion
jocular
hermetic
disencumber
vigilant
17. Poverty
nascent
foolproof
cavalcade
indigence
18. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
splenetic
delineate
cloture
sidestep
19. Take in by swallowing
ingest
plummet
procrastination
dearth
20. Person who tells anecdotes
refulgent
brass
raconteur
forswear
21. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
jagged
perspicacity
chary
impetuous
22. Look on with contempt
yarn
scabbard
cordial
disdain
23. Substance that causes speeding up
ignoble
catalyst
impair
shunt
24. Shyness
diffidence
pious
forge
jejune
25. Made of brass
turgid
brazen
cordon
exhaustive
26. Brief summary representative example a typical model
epitome
scorch
suborn
ferret
27. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
felicitous
malinger
flout
underbid
28. Persevering
epithet
boggle
sedulous
profundity
29. Commonplace trite unremarkable
pedestrian
equivocate
censure
eulogy
30. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
impediment
guile
refulgent
nugatory
31. Arousing sensual pleasures
alcove
abrogate
voluptuous
parsimonious
32. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
restive
florid
aver
mundane
33. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
condone
flax
slate
conviction
34. Unlucky
hapless
impugned
expiation
sash
35. Deceit cunning
obloquy
guile
astringent
insipid
36. Drink deeply
enduring
quaff
audacious
churlish
37. Foul filthy
scorch
squalid
clinch
abhor
38. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
Conduce
august
palpitate
torment
39. Frank straight-forward
candid
asperity
embezzle
covert
40. Essentially different
recitals
fragrant
disparate
foray
41. Shameless immorality
quotidian
voluble
profligacy
fret
42. Make hard and without feeling
predominate
pugnacious
sere
chastened
43. Making unpure poorer in quality
secular
pedantic
adulteration
extol
44. Reserved; indifferent
aloof
inscrutable
precarious
wince
45. Write one's name on the back of
endorse
sophisticated
reminiscent
inchoate
46. Refrain from be patient ancestor
resort
forbear
arrogance
undermine
47. Crouch shrink back
cower
raconteur
sophistry
sheath
48. Refuse to believe
discredit
baneful
expatiate
ostracism
49. Suspended action
abeyance
incite
sanity
derogatory
50. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
nadir
chauvinist
constrain
heresy