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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. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
epistle
obtain
expedient
palate
2. Worsen diminish in value
impair
temperate
ecumenical
fallacious
3. FALSE counterfeit
resuscitation
spurious
dereliction
sanctimony
4. To make hard rocklike
boggle
salvage
surcharge
petrify
5. To bring about
salvage
truce
Conduce
aseptic
6. Letter
insurrection
detraction
inundate
epistle
7. Great flood heavy rush of water
grievous
halcyon
deluge
impair
8. Be unsteady and overturn
topple
preen
contumacious
inquest
9. Health of mind soundness of judgment
sanity
scabbard
profane
vitiate
10. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
germane
prosaic
noisome
11. Various miscellaneous separate
implicate
complaisant
sundry
impending
12. Forgery
perpetrate
counterfeit
husk
incorrigibility
13. Doubtful uncertain
poncho
glean
ambiguous
ostensible
14. Person who stirs up war
exhaustive
abate
antithetical
warmonger
15. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
disinter
cornucopia
labyrinthine
pinch
16. To frequently visit
resort
recitals
odor
talon
17. Keep away from avoid
shun
temperance
chicanery
surfeit
18. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
lachrymose
assuage
rancorous
duress
19. Impress deeply
engrave
telltale
obsequious
indelible
20. Abundant/lavish
sophisticated
arboreal
vivacious
profuse
21. Without use result conceited
philistine
scabbard
malinger
vain
22. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
ostracism
bigot
ambrosial
impute
23. Greatly surprised
tenacity
pliant
nonplused
retrograde
24. Lasting
bandy
enduring
vituperate
suffocate
25. To hinder obstruct or block
ineptitude
stymie
supine
obfuscate
26. Mix combine unite societies
redeem
amalgamate
coda
conjoin
27. Open disobedience or resistance
breach
defiance
truculence
soar
28. Tiny bits of wood
calisthenics
morbid
sawdust
labyrinthine
29. Directing the mind in a certain direction
woo
ostensible
inclined
voluptuous
30. Slander
aspersion
plaque
plunge
pertain
31. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
garble
relapse
conciliatory
precursory
32. Make hard and without feeling
obdurate
drone
sere
invective
33. Denounce as dangerous
rabble
pliant
abut
proscribe
34. Stir up rouse
tenacity
submerge
soggy
incite
35. Very great (es. stupidity)
distrait
impassive
perfidious
crass
36. Increasing the number spreading extending
propagation
odor
dismal
mendacity
37. Frantic frenzied
abstruse
vain
frenetic
retard
38. Quick judging and understanding
prevalent
discomfit
dissolution
perspicacity
39. State of doubt or perplexity
verisimilitude
introvert
quandary
gnaw
40. Person of great learning
quibble
savant
foster
consternation
41. Unreasonably impatient
pyre
lachrymose
refractory
petulant
42. To distress create stress or torment
mercurial
pry
harrow
fustian
43. Strong dislike
animosity
arabesque
extempore
discrete
44. Serious requiring consideration
cower
smolder
grave
prevaricate
45. To speak harmful untruths about someone
malign
brook
disingenuous
Palpable
46. Causing no harm
garner
indigence
squander
innocuous
47. Star light-giving body
luminary
pitfall
propagation
abraded
48. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
perfidious
sanguine
hirsute
49. Worldly having contempt for God
attune
trickle
profane
puerile
50. Nickname
connoisseur
veer
sobriquet
splice