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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Laziness
indolence
flout
stipple
raffish
2. Strange act or idea
vindictive
vagary
wend
peremptory
3. Statement that damages reputation
impecunious
savant
alloy
libel
4. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
derivative
arrant
machination
Conduce
5. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
pliant
libertine
connote
obdurate
6. Becoming rotten
putrefaction
sawdust
suppress
ale
7. Make (pain) easier to bear
ineffable
extricable
alleviate
torpid
8. Yield - die
chary
profligate
indulge
succumb
9. Quality of being limited not extreme
ineptitude
moderation
eradicate
cadge
10. Exercises to develop strong bodies
calisthenics
noisome
precursory
corporeal
11. Not having interest
waft
benefactor
nonchalant
recitals
12. Write one's name on the back of
endorse
temperance
cant
blithe
13. Disguised
covert
clamor
hew
timid
14. Having little or no money
impecunious
turquoise
hew
discomfit
15. Hinder get in the way of
precarious
forgery
pusillanimous
impede
16. Scold sharply
entangle
berate
boisterous
malign
17. Process of burning
engender
equanimity
harangue
combustion
18. Trick mislead
suffice
duress
cabal
hoodwink
19. Granting of privileges in return for similar
reactionary
reciprocity
sponge
obdurate
20. Refuse to believe
indigenous
servile
discredit
benign
21. Engrave make a cut in
incise
endeavor
legacy
prodigal
22. Lukewarm
apostate
toady
illicit
tepid
23. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
inchoate
haughty
refractory
heretic
24. Deliver provide represent
efficacy
blatant
render
parsimonious
25. Suffer the loss of something
obtain
taut
vivacious
forfeit
26. Able to float light-hearted
buoyant
equivocal
perfidious
gerontocracy
27. Stir up excite
nugatory
summarily
collusion
emote
28. A group or band of people
ostentation
plaintive
cohort
divulge
29. Mark of shame or disgrace
abdication
stigma
opaqueness
nonchalant
30. Eagerly desirous
repel
diatribe
covetous
apt
31. Person who is slow waste of time
tyro
peremptory
castigate
dawdler
32. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
ambidextrous
flout
curriculum
propagation
33. Careful/prudent
commemorate
discreet
colloquial
asterisk
34. Lessen the severity of
hermetic
vituperate
incumbents
palliate
35. Spend wastefully
descry
coerce
squander
consternation
36. Deification glorification to godliness
serrated
apotheosis
extirpate
fledgling
37. Heavy with water
equable
soggy
preclude
gainsay
38. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
truce
frantic
abjure
caustic
39. Sheath for the blade
scabbard
myriad
compunction
plod
40. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
pied
apostate
dainty
bellicose
41. Extremely loud and powerful
stentorian
stifled
piquant
extrovert
42. Boldness impudence arrogance
loquacious
impede
effrontery
contentious
43. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
peremptory
emote
truce
transgress
44. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
credulous
tout
overweening
sycophant
45. Commonplace trite unremarkable
drone
pedestrian
unearth
complaisance
46. Greatness in number strength weight
countervail
shrill
cant
preponderance
47. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
endearing
impediment
extirpate
husk
48. See with an effort but clearly
foppish
ambrosial
quirk
discern
49. Drink deeply
suffice
quaff
divestiture
sidestep
50. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
loquacious
narcissism
precursors
recuperate