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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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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. Oppose to alcohol
pedestrian
teetotal
adulteration
impassive
2. Lasting
splenetic
sobriety
enduring
forbearance
3. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
ascribe
forswear
discreet
wanton
4. Speech lecture
whimsical
sobriety
mundane
discourse
5. Bold
audacious
voluble
vilify
aver
6. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
barrage
ail
obfuscate
myriad
7. Directing the mind in a certain direction
inclined
redoubtable
ostracism
nibble
8. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
petrified
disinter
abscond
suffocate
9. Quality of being limited not extreme
fledged
moderation
coeval
ostentation
10. Poverty
indigence
coruscate
deter
trite
11. Too strong to be defeated
dislodge
invincible
skiff
exoneration
12. Taste flavor something
savor
pellucid
eulogy
dissent
13. Causing tears tearful
itinerate
agglutinate
lachrymose
acumen
14. Sad gloomy miserable
probity
entice
dismal
finesse
15. Get to the end of
sketchy
consume
ambivalent
breach
16. Widespread
indistinct
rife
counterfeit
congeal
17. To equivocate to stray from the truth
fledged
prevaricate
delineate
quaff
18. Twisting force causing rotation
smolder
effluvia
torque
lithe
19. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
eschew
vagary
personable
plaque
20. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
drowsiness
malapropism
baleful
pied
21. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
catalyst
immutable
lithe
implacable
22. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
inveigh
wanton
desultory
facile
23. Much too high or great
vilify
incursion
exorbitant
platitude
24. Cause produce give rise to
engender
tarnished
eloquence
animosity
25. Having both of two contrary meanings
commodious
philistine
stentorian
ambivalent
26. Shortage
soar
aloof
dearth
embellish
27. Written order
rebus
guile
effrontery
writ
28. Severing
profligacy
fracas
abjure
severance
29. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
hew
expedient
narcissism
quibble
30. Elation state of pleasant excitement
stingy
fervor
euphoria
peripatetic
31. A repetition a redundancy
drawl
tautology
voluptuous
droll
32. Tiresome
indefatigability
irksome
philanthropist
luculent
33. Discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
bandy
palatial
roll
aspersion
34. Stubborn narrow-minded person
sever
bigot
Conduce
squalid
35. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
paean
profundity
impending
felicitous
36. Can be felt touched understood
brittle
palpability
obtain
rescind
37. In enjoy warmth and light
bask
hew
rivet
collusion
38. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
repel
vehemence
obfuscate
grouse
39. Call up bring out
timid
evoke
streak
anguish
40. Deliver provide represent
valorous
render
pious
bigot
41. Ready and smooth but not sincere
glib
castigate
redoubtable
chisel
42. Obstruct/frustrate
abut
thwart
depredation
guile
43. Rash indiscreet
impudent
vigilant
forestall
coalescing
44. To make holy consecrate
germane
partisan
beatify
hallow
45. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
squat
palatial
shallow
contentious
46. Complete thorough
protracted
paean
insensible
exhaustive
47. Duty support loyalty
precepts
valorous
soot
allegiance
48. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
resilience
ingenuous
somersault
stanch
49. Complain or grumble (verb)
inept
grouse
extrovert
pernicious
50. (person nation) waging war
belligerent
laudatory
sinuous
lachrymose