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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. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
presumption
indistinct
bask
veritable
2. Careful forethought
jagged
prudence
indefatigability
belabor
3. Rash indiscreet
impudent
ascetic
rarefy
cantankerous
4. Something giving strength or energy
muffler
tonic
tautology
spear
5. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
stingy
renovate
tawdry
ferret
6. To go proceed
vigorous
wend
jibe
chastened
7. Greenish-blue precious stone
rumple
submerge
forage
turquoise
8. The saving of property from loss
salvage
truculence
inscrutable
preen
9. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
extempore
inveigh
variegate
deviance
10. Special liking mental preference
ascribe
predilection
haughty
cordial
11. Inclined to fighting
renovate
irascible
odor
bellicose
12. To darken make obscure muddle
ebullient
blase
obfuscate
fecund
13. A carefree episode or experience
idyll
nibble
hospitable
chisel
14. Crude offensive rude
intrepid
boorish
slake
vindictive
15. Fail/move/fall clumsily
offhand
flop
haughty
brash
16. Show off complacently
impute
malapropism
flaunting
coax
17. Frank straight-forward
candid
contrite
retrospective
concord
18. Rub or wipe out - obliterate
ostentation
ire
malinger
efface
19. Jesting
nibble
droll
riddle
turbid
20. Worked out with much care in great detail
elaborate
pinch
exscind
vacuity
21. Puzzle confuse
cajole
bewilder
distraught
muffler
22. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
perish
skiff
subpoena
whimsical
23. Dejected
incise
profane
emaciate
rueful
24. Accumulate
cogitate
retard
Palpable
accrue
25. Suppress subdue
hoi
foster
quell
bequest
26. Weariness tiredness
malapropism
reticent
agglutinate
lassitude
27. In a dying state; near death
maverick
moribund
hapless
turbid
28. Noisy and rough
incumbents
exscind
petrified
blatant
29. Discover by searching search
ferret
beguile
pest
antithetical
30. Tiring because too long
frugal
rejuvenation
prolix
fission
31. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
antithetical
pillage
heretic
32. Roughness of manner or of surface
impetuous
asperity
palliate
flaunting
33. Real rightly named
veritable
pugnacious
conceal
quotidian
34. Haughty arrogant commanding
onus
lien
imperviousness
indigenous
35. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
volatile
substantiation
malinger
recalcitrant
36. To roam wander freely
froward
expatiate
retrospective
benign
37. To deny to oppose
parenthesis
flinch
gainsay
impute
38. Be guilty commit (a crime)
sophisticated
perpetrate
rift
ambiguous
39. Make thin. weaken enervate
attenuate
simper
shunt
putrefaction
40. Be faithful to endure
abide
emote
gist
permeate
41. Check hinder
exigency
retard
curriculum
petrous
42. Cause produce give rise to
tonic
engender
flamboyant
boisterous
43. Enormous wonderful
collusion
arrant
prodigious
clamor
44. Severe suffering
resort
venal
anguish
idiosyncrasy
45. Unharmed unhurt
retinue
unscathed
precepts
nostrum
46. Interfere with
involute
impede
squat
tamper
47. Break go beyond (a limit)
mendacious
divergence
plummet
transgress
48. More then is needed or wanted
elicit
superfluous
visceral
turbid
49. Letter
epistle
sodden
immutable
severance
50. Reddish - healthy-looking
hew
ascribe
ruddy
stint