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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. Shortly - roughly - quickly
preponderance
sketchy
frugal
moribund
2. A beggar
desiccant
earthenware
sequence
mendicant
3. Make or become stiff and solid
spear
congeal
amortize
apotheosis
4. Frugal looking to the future
render
striated
incredulous
provident
5. Trifling/worthless
solvent
nugatory
repulsive
coalescing
6. Severe suffering
voluptuous
anguish
husk
gloat
7. Crouch shrink back
cower
repast
talon
sere
8. Grow forth send out buds
pliant
ambivalent
vacillation
burgeon
9. To turn away (from a habit)
negligent
innocuous
wean
heresy
10. Bad-tempered irritable
elaborate
splenetic
mince
scorch
11. Humorous funny jocular
felon
incise
facetious
thwart
12. Lazy slow-moving person
savant
propinquity
epitome
sluggard
13. Improve make better
acumen
lull
hallow
ameliorate
14. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
nonplused
combustion
aberration
denouement
15. Worsen diminish in value
cantankerous
recast
impair
verdant
16. Uncommunicativeness
warrant
reticence
asterisk
gist
17. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
prodigal
antidote
conciliatory
flak
18. Come to grips/settle conclusively
hoodwink
clinch
ale
veracity
19. Person guilty of murder
felon
disallow
germane
desiccant
20. Recess/partially enclosed place
condense
profligate
anguish
alcove
21. End the existence of/wipe or put out
extinguish
attenuate
elaborate
itinerate
22. Waste away through sorrow or illness
pine
stymie
teetotal
deplete
23. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
debacle
defer
canvass
sobriety
24. Lying on the back slow to act passive
transgress
salacious
supine
jocular
25. Heavy bulky dull
sententious
contiguous
ponderous
retard
26. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
sobriquet
debacle
harrow
perfidious
27. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
erratic
felon
preponderance
28. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
muffler
serration
mulct
reticent
29. Being uncontrolled violent
piquant
turbulence
imperious
abet
30. Little depth not earnest
shallow
discern
haughty
bellicose
31. Protest against express disapproval of
epitome
tractable
lumber
deprecate
32. Arrogant pride
mischievous
hubris
nugatory
wag
33. Put into difficulties
strive
voluptuous
entangle
complaisance
34. Of the body
insipid
somatic
compunction
exhaustive
35. Becoming young in nature or appearance
fidelity
aspersion
harangue
rejuvenation
36. Noisy quarrel
sodden
discrete
defalcate
fracas
37. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
baneful
supersede
impassive
detraction
38. Omen sign
sanction
augury
encomium
inveigh
39. Weariness tiredness
venal
resigned
lassitude
finical
40. To hate to detest
wan
slack
abhor
forge
41. Easily shocked excessively modest
apartheid
hapless
acumen
prudish
42. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
repine
plaintive
indelible
43. Rubbed off worn away by friction
fledged
impassive
ebullience
abraded
44. Made of brass
obsequious
caustic
stentorian
brazen
45. Using pompous words
grandiloquent
avid
presumption
incursion
46. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
crass
curriculum
recuperate
trenchant
47. Dangerous
sober
entreat
moribund
perilous
48. Free giving generosity
liberality
sinuous
gouge
testiness
49. Present everywhere
ubiquitous
vain
chary
dereliction
50. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
turpitude
recidivism
profligacy
spurn