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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. Collapse bursting inward
imperative
illicit
implosion
commuter
2. Bad-tempered irritable
splenetic
moribund
recuperate
refulgent
3. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
underbid
hollow
importune
4. A lament a melancholy composition
entice
esoteric
sobriquet
elegy
5. Increase in density strength make laconic
haughty
cadge
condense
penurious
6. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
august
lament
ensconce
froward
7. Take the place of
conjoin
glut
rabble
supersede
8. Compel
palpitate
constrain
antidote
ensign
9. Bookish showing off learning
apartheid
resigned
equivocate
pedantic
10. Unaware having no memory
substantiation
servile
equivocate
oblivious
11. Difficult to comprehend obscure
appease
abstruse
berate
imperturbable
12. Person who travels regularly
chisel
commuter
salutary
astute
13. Mischievous trick played to deceive
supplicate
hoax
aleck
provoke
14. Ending expiring
wean
wile
expiation
turbid
15. Showing self-control
temperate
predominate
epiphany
credulity
16. Try to win
sullied
transgress
ineptitude
woo
17. To praise highly
veneration
fluster
extol
descry
18. Crouch/settle without permission
parsimonious
squat
disproof
descry
19. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
unearth
ambidextrous
acarpous
opaqueness
20. Long thin move very fast
gaucherie
stolid
implosion
streak
21. Threats to compel somebody
duress
dubious
voluptuous
veracity
22. Idleness
vacuity
pitfall
glut
inimical
23. Be destroyed decay
foible
trudge
resigned
perish
24. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
repudiate
ail
constrict
gorge
25. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
fervid
disallow
stentorian
incise
26. Nickname
valorous
sobriquet
opprobrious
fustian
27. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
writ
garrulous
submerge
jibe
28. Obvious
Palpable
egress
petrify
supine
29. Greatness in number strength weight
disingenuous
fluster
preponderance
immaculate
30. Open disobedience or resistance
hoodwink
crush
defiance
nibble
31. Of the internal organs of the body
cumbersome
visceral
ubiquitous
smolder
32. Extreme poverty
entreat
penury
philistine
plunge
33. Person who tells anecdotes
fracas
germane
earthenware
raconteur
34. Being uncontrolled violent
turbulence
stifled
euphoria
veritable
35. Becoming young in nature or appearance
countenance
suffocate
rejuvenation
fleet
36. Special liking mental preference
recitals
predilection
macabre
provident
37. Undress
disrobe
aver
pine
legacy
38. Grow forth send out buds
invincible
burgeon
truce
resilience
39. Made up of different kinds
heterogeneous
portent
chauvinist
hauteur
40. Straying away from what is normal
scalding
aberration
doleful
palpability
41. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
tawdry
taunt
repudiate
temerity
42. Hypnotize
counterfeit
temperate
hauteur
mesmerize
43. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
pluck
unscathed
pliant
cloture
44. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
abysmal
parley
cravat
brash
45. Harmful causing mischief
infuse
entice
mischievous
rant
46. To make unnecessary get rid of
sheath
obviate
retinue
temerity
47. Implied though not plainly expressed
colloquial
implicit
gossamer
surfeit
48. Legal trickery/false argument
obsequious
conciliatory
chicanery
chastisement
49. Quality of being unskillful
ineptitude
edible
abet
cravat
50. Refuse to approve of
restive
defer
discountenance
lugubrious