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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. Deeply moving keen
hone
beatify
malign
poignant
2. Trying to please; obliging
trudge
overhaul
complaisant
apt
3. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
boisterous
embezzle
engrossing
dereliction
4. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
recitals
eclat
limn
preen
5. Sentence within another one something separated
eulogy
fledged
parenthesis
resilience
6. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
clot
trifling
auxiliary
suppliant
7. Agreeably pungent stimulating
verisimilitude
piquant
grovel
suborn
8. Self-love
regicide
lithe
forestall
narcissism
9. Make or become soft by soaking in water
partisan
macerate
abscond
distraught
10. Noisy quarrel
umbrage
thwart
fracas
foolproof
11. Not easily discouraged or subdued
coagulation
indomitable
reverent
discomfit
12. Stir up rouse
hush
adamant
incite
resigned
13. Careful economical
dogmatic
frugal
blase
vilify
14. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
squat
cordon
intransigence
derogatory
15. Discover by searching search
ferret
impugned
ineptitude
edacious
16. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
indulge
torque
dexterity
endorse
17. Grow forth send out buds
burgeon
ensign
indefatigability
tractable
18. Invent - prepare by mixing together
travesty
finical
concoct
aver
19. Drink deeply
quaff
calumny
macerate
grandiloquent
20. Hatred being an enemy
malapropism
enmity
remonstrate
strut
21. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
approbation
qualm
sententious
derision
22. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
rabble
quack
impervious
punctilious
23. To resist separation
viscous
disallow
cling
foolproof
24. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
complaisance
emote
equivocal
trencherman
25. Mix combine unite societies
stolid
incense
fleet
amalgamate
26. Draw together unite firmly
hoax
cant
paradigm
knit
27. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
impetuous
contentious
limp
rabble
28. Leather case for a pistol
holster
privation
cogent
ecumenical
29. To be thrifty to set limits
concord
stint
turbid
pied
30. Commonplace trite unremarkable
picaresque
disencumber
pedestrian
pith
31. Contempt dislike aversion
mulct
odium
interdict
penchant
32. Frugal looking to the future
obtain
provident
timorous
moderation
33. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
precursors
harbinger
exculpate
dismal
34. Quick changeable in character fleeting
mercurial
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
glimmer
lucubrate
35. Elation state of pleasant excitement
impetuous
loquacious
obloquy
euphoria
36. See with an effort but clearly
fulmination
occluded
penitent
discern
37. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
vitriolic
topple
streak
forestall
38. Inclined to indulge
indulgent
eddy
trudge
corporeal
39. Voracious devouring
edacious
ascertain
impermeable
transitory
40. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
recreancy
recompense
curmudgeon
itinerate
41. Effete no longer fertile worn out
acarpous
duplicity
cabal
disproof
42. Plundering
disproof
sober
gregarious
depredation
43. Expressing or giving praise
stint
laudatory
unfeigned
chicanery
44. Put pour fill
vitriolic
complaisant
heterogeneous
infuse
45. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
adamant
intersperse
whimsical
46. To shackle put in chains
tadpole
fidget
fret
fetter
47. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
impair
suppress
picaresque
subpoena
48. Deliver provide represent
transitory
render
labyrinthine
broach
49. Like a rock hard stony
temperance
sanity
petrous
fidget
50. Have deep respect for
acarpous
muffler
revere
constrain