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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. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
stingy
matriculation
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
homiletics
2. Show bodily or mental pain
wince
derivative
suppress
caustic
3. Lack of seriousness
decry
levity
odium
plumb
4. Red and healthy
tawdry
rubicund
punitive
duplicity
5. Suggest something in the past
reminiscent
divestiture
effluvia
intransigence
6. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
clinch
calumny
boggle
inveterate
7. Walk heavily
barren
cower
trudge
holster
8. Too tired
importune
fagged
abet
conspicuous
9. Taken away power (to think feel act)
valorous
ingenuous
petrified
insipid
10. Assistance relief in time of distress
noisome
repulsive
morbid
succor
11. To cause to adhere - as with glue
agglutinate
apropos
meticulous
lament
12. Likely to be useful for a purpose
inadvertent
propitious
expedient
effrontery
13. Distracted violently upset in mind
cling
quail
ambiguous
distraught
14. Take the place of
itinerate
simper
supersede
piquant
15. Crude offensive rude
sagacious
boorish
churl
meretricious
16. Call calling of names
roll
discourse
nostrum
idiosyncrasy
17. Confuse embarrass
morbid
discomfit
narcissism
mulct
18. Anger
ire
knit
benign
ambrosial
19. Causing tears tearful
gerontocracy
penchant
egress
lachrymose
20. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
redeem
intersperse
quixotic
spurn
21. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
mite
torque
rancorous
temerity
22. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
rebus
severance
rancorous
diaphanous
23. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
mulct
commuter
feint
canvass
24. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
descry
imminent
cloture
offhand
25. Curse abuse in words
drone
limn
wean
vituperate
26. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
effete
abscond
vitiate
desultory
27. Hairy shaggy
defer
hirsute
ossify
sagacious
28. To portray depict sketch out
roll
laudatory
gourmand
delineate
29. To cut out cut away
ameliorate
pest
exscind
disencumber
30. Noisy loud
hoi
graze
obstreperous
extort
31. Easily understood lucid clear
strut
luculent
redoubtable
epicurean
32. Widespread
rife
incipient
redeem
candid
33. Discover by searching search
turbid
ferret
terse
chastened
34. Looking ill - not bright
wan
frantic
sublime
boisterous
35. Think deeply mediate
implicate
cogitate
turbulence
flimsy
36. Bad-tempered person
precursors
effluvia
churl
propagation
37. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
invective
sting
equivocate
mince
38. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
endemic
extenuate
impermeable
waft
39. Suppress subdue
emaciate
warmonger
quell
gauche
40. Show much fondness center one's attention
splenetic
dote
sanction
luculent
41. Change to a thick and solid state
vivacious
supplicate
sedulous
coagulation
42. Quality of being unskillful
brazen
saturnine
ineptitude
repel
43. Strong inclination a liking
elegy
pine
penchant
lament
44. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
snare
prone
plaintive
imminent
45. Urgent essential
baneful
drawl
imperative
imminent
46. Laziness
nostrum
refulgent
palatial
indolence
47. Postpone
fustian
impervious
ambivalent
defer
48. The point general sense
obtrusive
abstruse
gist
limn
49. Deceit cunning
taciturn
guile
unearth
equanimity
50. Severe suffering
anguish
insinuate
fervor
crass