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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. Brave
agglutinate
intransigence
abstruse
valiant
2. Immoral person
libertine
vex
indelible
mesmerize
3. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
sinuous
inferno
insensible
turmoil
4. Trouble disturbance
turmoil
idyll
discourse
penurious
5. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
personable
suffocate
precursors
veneration
6. Hot enough to boil
ineffable
ferret
scalding
cantankerous
7. Sad gloomy miserable
multifarious
cravat
dismal
intersperse
8. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
congeal
Conduce
impugned
phlegmatic
9. Greedy (esp for money)
apprise
rapacious
inscrutable
incessant
10. Severe pain or suffering
torment
nugatory
lachrymose
espouse
11. Welcomed with shouts and approval
subsume
chaste
verisimilitude
acclaimed
12. Unspoken - silent
arabesque
veneer
taciturn
abate
13. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
extinct
pulchritude
conceit
14. Prevent from carrying out contrast
entice
trencherman
foil
harangue
15. Unlawful forbidden
illicit
deter
graze
deprave
16. Extreme poverty
hospitable
pileous
salubrious
penury
17. Showing earnest feeling
fervid
boorish
prevalent
conjoin
18. Waver/move in an uncertain manner
subpoena
empirical
falter
consequential
19. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
obdurate
trickle
prolix
obloquy
20. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
pest
panegyric
ossify
prudish
21. Perfect/make perfect/complete
animosity
preen
consummate
pliant
22. No longer active
coalescing
irksome
grave
extinct
23. Defying imitation unmatchable
inimitable
venal
perish
vehemence
24. Can be felt touched understood
protracted
requite
palpability
impair
25. Person who hates mankind
misanthrope
incise
palate
odious
26. Wrinkle
pucker
floe
decorum
precursory
27. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
recant
trenchant
arrant
endeavor
28. Make or become silent
fulmination
hush
perch
preponderance
29. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
audacious
valiant
turmoil
indulge
30. Check hinder
reticence
retard
incorrigibility
skiff
31. Supply to much fill to excess
wean
effluvia
glut
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
32. Keeping on putting off
procrastination
vigilant
obtrusive
evoke
33. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
chicanery
recompense
spurn
vivacious
34. Make shorter then was planned
austere
implacable
disproof
curtail
35. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
scorch
upbraid
hauteur
depredation
36. Deification glorification to godliness
oblivious
preclude
harbinger
apotheosis
37. Directing the mind in a certain direction
lucubrate
inclined
glib
warmonger
38. Be unsteady and overturn
grievous
drone
fission
topple
39. Make or become pure cultural
suppliant
abscond
oblivious
refine
40. To cut out cut away
stray
redoubtable
irascible
exscind
41. To hinder obstruct or block
imprecation
ostracism
refine
stymie
42. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
nibble
umbrage
nebulous
dupe
43. Convincing firm belief
premature
conviction
idiosyncrasy
inept
44. Wandering
disallow
expatiate
peripatetic
visceral
45. Hairy shaggy
heterogeneous
gush
macerate
hirsute
46. Slow way of speaking
aberration
sanction
repulsive
drawl
47. Spending using unwillingly
amalgamate
antithetical
stingy
benign
48. Punishing
austere
mesmerize
punitive
plethora
49. Say or do again several times
reiterate
salutary
qualm
exhaustive
50. Effete no longer fertile worn out
encomium
acarpous
propitiatory
secular