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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. Measure hoe heavy something is
mettlesome
articulate
weigh
cower
2. Song of praise or triumph
benefactor
wile
retrograde
paean
3. Essential part force soft liquid substance
pith
coda
interdict
articulate
4. Taste flavor something
congeal
savor
Conduce
incredulous
5. Blunt/stupid
hoodwink
obtuse
fracas
ameliorate
6. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
esoteric
fission
sting
simper
7. Make payment to reward punish
aberration
insouciant
recompense
mince
8. Rebel nonconformist
philanthropist
thwart
extant
maverick
9. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
depredation
deprecate
mince
ferment
10. Agreeably pungent stimulating
ruffian
eschew
piquant
streak
11. Disobedient
admonitory
emote
diaphanous
recalcitrant
12. Call calling of names
defiance
roll
affinity
puissance
13. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
churl
eclat
hallow
perfunctory
14. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
flax
discern
stint
stifled
15. Tending to evade
compunction
overhaul
evasive
sedulous
16. Health of mind soundness of judgment
ebullience
ulterior
sanity
inferno
17. Quality or condition of being sober
vivacious
sobriety
chicanery
legacy
18. Have deep respect for
abide
stint
revere
resort
19. Parody/imitation
opprobrious
travesty
coruscate
decry
20. Suggest something in the past
implacable
ingest
finesse
reminiscent
21. Strong dislike
ingenuous
stygian
prevaricate
aversion
22. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
chastisement
sycophant
incongruous
denigrate
23. Satisfy fully
dud
satiate
cloture
knit
24. Keeping on putting off
premature
procrastination
endeavor
eschew
25. Meticulous
aloof
predominate
hoodwink
punctilious
26. Warmth of feelings earnestness
lustrous
onus
fervor
fragile
27. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
underbid
stickler
precursors
coagulation
28. Sentence within another one something separated
premature
ameliorate
prudence
parenthesis
29. Forgery
indigence
counterfeit
lustrous
stint
30. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
abut
impending
sidestep
plaintive
31. Coming together and uniting into one substance
coalescing
apotheosis
imperviousness
plumb
32. Abundant supply
condone
cornucopia
precarious
sobriquet
33. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
disallow
denigrate
urbane
flak
34. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
reproach
assail
irate
muffler
35. Blacken belittle sully defame
denigrate
astringent
abraded
tenuous
36. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
halcyon
pivotal
onerous
erratic
37. Obstruct/frustrate
sash
repel
thwart
epithet
38. Tale story fibers for knitting
rapacious
miser
yarn
debacle
39. Show feel great sorrow
aberration
lament
arrant
judicious
40. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
ebullient
epiphany
stingy
discreet
41. Intended to instruct
didactic
enthral
tractable
disdain
42. Ending expiring
sever
importune
expiation
amalgamate
43. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
eschew
gerontocracy
cogitate
balk
44. Fearless brave undaunted
cadge
blithe
intrepid
hoodwink
45. Without preparation or forethought
warrant
offhand
overweening
ramify
46. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
effluvia
bereft
malapropism
massacre
47. Pleasing in appearance attractive
impugned
animosity
opaqueness
personable
48. To gather and save to store up
liberality
condone
garner
abjure
49. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
jibe
prodigal
imperious
50. Brief and to the point
summarily
reverent
terse
voluptuous