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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. Harmful causing mischief
dearth
predominate
mischievous
soar
2. Change direction suddenly
swerve
skiff
deluge
mien
3. Feeling or showing deep respect
punitive
sporadic
reverent
dearth
4. Keep the memory of
commemorate
mercurial
ostentation
jabber
5. Customers
abscond
clientele
vitriolic
resort
6. Wickedness shamefulness
belligerent
turpitude
impervious
serration
7. Bequest or inheritance
tyro
legacy
foster
vilify
8. Disobedient
inchoate
corroboration
torque
recalcitrant
9. Skeptical unwilling to believe
incredulous
nascent
pusillanimous
shrill
10. Brave -behaves well with women
involute
quandary
gallant
indomitable
11. Sad gloomy miserable
palate
auspicious
jabber
dismal
12. Melodious harmonious
fervor
rotund
dulcet
tarnished
13. Get to know
consternation
ascertain
pivotal
cavalcade
14. Be faithful to endure
sequence
foible
brash
abide
15. Made of brass
brazen
sedulous
sobriety
mite
16. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
hauteur
propinquity
peregrination
detumescence
17. Childish
volatile
puerile
fixate
depredation
18. Polloi the masses the rabble
eddy
convoke
hoi
admonitory
19. Immoral person
cantankerous
libertine
foster
dupe
20. Essential part force soft liquid substance
foment
pith
perch
profane
21. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
benign
implacable
panegyric
curmudgeon
22. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
somatic
prudish
gourmand
probity
23. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
enigma
canvass
blase
craven
24. No use person something that fails
precepts
dud
disconcert
facile
25. Noisy and rough
incise
blatant
antidote
plummet
26. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
impecunious
tawdry
nexus
encomium
27. Scold reproach
expatiate
philistine
upbraid
sequence
28. Make angry vax
provoke
vigorous
idolatry
impermeable
29. State of being balanced
equilibrium
cogitate
graze
perpetrate
30. Get rid of pull up by the roots
encapsulate
disallow
germane
eradicate
31. Scarcity a lacking of
meretricious
paucity
brittle
benevolence
32. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
scent
streak
reciprocity
33. Improve make better
admonitory
calisthenics
ameliorate
epitome
34. Cautious wary
chary
rarefy
imminent
eclat
35. Cast or fashion anew
brazen
recast
abate
serrated
36. Fertile
panegyric
personable
sophomoric
fecund
37. Making dear or liked
gist
duplicity
asterisk
endearing
38. Person who tells anecdotes
raconteur
attune
deprave
enigma
39. Deliver provide represent
effluvia
render
weigh
glib
40. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
lien
placate
corporeal
incense
41. Punishing
impermeable
calisthenics
harrow
punitive
42. One who loves mankind
philanthropist
idyll
sundry
vex
43. Break go beyond (a limit)
transgress
stigmatize
onus
uncouth
44. Unaware having no memory
mien
adamant
oblivious
profligacy
45. Be out of view ready to attack
penchant
grievous
lurk
extort
46. Twisting force causing rotation
torque
extralegal
incense
misanthrope
47. Prevent from carrying out contrast
permeate
terse
foil
emaciate
48. Not normal or usual
perfidious
mulct
preternatural
levee
49. To take in marriage
espouse
incipient
toady
loll
50. That cannot be changed
deferential
indigence
canvass
immutable