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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. Jargon slang
extricable
argot
epiphany
beguile
2. Getting farther apart from a point
divergence
repine
corroboration
squalid
3. Substance become excited
acarpous
waft
ensign
ferment
4. A generator something that produces electric current
stray
dynamo
assail
extinguish
5. Talk vaguely and without much result
efface
aplomb
waffle
perilous
6. A group or band of people
palpitate
cohort
odium
picaresque
7. Healthful
wile
vanquish
profligate
salubrious
8. Intimidate make fearful
antidote
daunt
irate
savor
9. Written order
embezzle
mercurial
grievous
writ
10. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
animosity
perpetrate
exscind
foible
11. Widespread
stingy
harrow
rife
offhand
12. Not to be trusted - perfidious
deposition
lionize
treacherous
vigorous
13. Make thin. weaken enervate
paucity
opprobrious
perish
attenuate
14. Formal praise panegyric
eulogy
credulous
unencumbered
baneful
15. Showing earnest feeling
insularity
fervid
encomium
mince
16. Wandering
argot
gouge
acarpous
peripatetic
17. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
edible
vacuity
trite
mien
18. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
tenacity
resigned
conceal
deter
19. Causing no harm
aggravate
prodigal
render
innocuous
20. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
maverick
vehemence
reticent
salubrious
21. Person much smaller the usual size
moderation
antithetical
dwarf
plea
22. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
untoward
perfidious
coy
bedizen
23. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
suffice
caustic
benign
loquacious
24. Loyalty accuracy
sedulous
fidelity
coruscate
aseptic
25. Make morally bad corrupt
garner
deprave
woo
eloquence
26. Odious (of crime)
suffice
heinous
crass
entice
27. Proof to the contrary
specious
efface
disproof
misogynist
28. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
turgid
emaciate
subsume
deferential
29. Living in societies liking the company
forfeit
spurn
gregarious
aseptic
30. Arousing sensual pleasures
expatiate
voluptuous
umbrage
denigrate
31. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
ferment
predominate
complaisance
32. Hence - awkward
gauche
acarpous
dolt
predominate
33. Mournful excessively sad
disdain
lugubrious
recompense
condense
34. Move force from the place occupied
apartheid
ascribe
dislodge
frugal
35. Waste away bite steadily
quixotic
brash
gnaw
ensign
36. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
suppliant
connotation
endorse
ostracism
37. Angry
drone
irate
ferret
dupe
38. Self-controlled
parenthesis
sober
plead
voluptuous
39. Make thin and weak
emaciate
mellifluous
lien
preponderance
40. Confuse embarrass
weigh
ascertain
quell
discomfit
41. FALSE counterfeit
idiosyncrasy
torpid
spurious
fulmination
42. A number of performance of music
recitals
nebulous
levee
prudence
43. Noisy and rough
reproach
timorous
machination
blatant
44. Cannot be cured or corrected
equable
brook
immaculate
incorrigibility
45. A possession
reactionary
barrage
recompense
cavalcade
46. Rash indiscreet
impudent
penury
penchant
dubious
47. Nickname
libertine
pinch
palpitate
sobriquet
48. Persevering
recondite
clamor
tautology
sedulous
49. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
slack
collusion
peccadillo
atonement
50. Threats to compel somebody
duress
palpitate
dissemble
abet