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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. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
alleviate
pernicious
bilge
profligate
2. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
coda
muffler
convoke
inundate
3. Say or do again several times
mien
propagation
reiterate
corporeal
4. Paint portray
limn
vigilance
travesty
taciturn
5. Avoid
eschew
idiosyncrasy
burnish
vex
6. A trick
sporadic
affable
wile
veer
7. State of being balanced
bandy
equilibrium
figurehead
taunt
8. Touching neighboring near
contiguous
falter
telltale
recant
9. Keep away from avoid
ramify
overhaul
punitive
shun
10. Shy easily frightened
pristine
pinch
ferocity
timid
11. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
pitfall
quixotic
cornucopia
lachrymose
12. Promise or swear to give up
gauche
abscond
abjure
prevalent
13. Anticipatory fear; premonition
presentiment
berate
rift
ambiguous
14. Warm and sincere
enduring
arabesque
garble
cordial
15. Scarcity a lacking of
truce
benevolence
paucity
substantiation
16. Make thin and weak
puissance
erudite
mesmerize
emaciate
17. Person who travels regularly
pungency
sere
commuter
felon
18. Puzzle confuse
renovate
solvent
bewilder
barren
19. Physical of or for the body
corporeal
scurvy
prevaricate
surcharge
20. Not soled with hole
rabble
boggle
hollow
amortize
21. Irritable easily angered
glimmer
irascible
ensconce
descry
22. Omen sign
augury
ineluctable
chastisement
swerve
23. Lucky stroke
demagogue
presage
fluke
astute
24. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
liberality
duress
temperance
wag
25. Straying away from what is normal
ossify
aversion
aberration
pedantic
26. Make or become pure cultural
temerity
impediment
implicit
refine
27. Suffer the loss of something
resuscitation
forfeit
flout
illicit
28. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
prodigal
complaisance
tamp
intransigence
29. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
savant
vigilance
impecunious
connotation
30. Dejected
substantiation
demagogue
dereliction
rueful
31. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
flak
transitory
plead
penurious
32. Like a rock hard stony
render
inculcate
mince
petrous
33. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
cloture
labyrinthine
sermon
epistle
34. Winding undulating serpentine
turgid
peregrination
sinuous
imperviousness
35. Having both of two contrary meanings
ambivalent
conviction
puerile
reminiscent
36. Legal trickery/false argument
fulsome
divulge
abhor
chicanery
37. To tolerate endure
lassitude
preen
offhand
brook
38. Threatening
penchant
ominous
haughty
pedantic
39. Be out of view ready to attack
lurk
vituperate
mettlesome
disparate
40. Worsen diminish in value
expedient
ameliorate
impair
bigot
41. Rub or wipe out - obliterate
efface
onus
catalyst
vigilance
42. Fall plunge steeply
fragile
mischievous
plummet
fagged
43. Bending twisting
blase
fission
holster
lithe
44. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
boisterous
viscous
forgery
macabre
45. Untidy
disheveled
waft
spear
ostensible
46. Obstruct/frustrate
matriculation
thwart
stymie
sedulous
47. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
idiosyncrasy
voluble
contentious
cajole
48. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
transitory
officious
hospitable
stygian
49. Sheath for the blade
scabbard
dismal
renovate
credulity
50. To speak harmful untruths about someone
malign
drowsiness
impassive
valorous