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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Government ruled by old people
ire
stingy
incessant
gerontocracy
2. Very great (es. stupidity)
middling
discountenance
deter
crass
3. Truth
veracity
tyro
extempore
abraded
4. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
guile
clot
vanquish
barrage
5. Quick changeable in character fleeting
dolt
raffish
puerile
mercurial
6. Hence dark gloomy
foil
encumbrance
forgery
stygian
7. Get back by payment compensate
countenance
redeem
pucker
abhor
8. Cowardly
infuriate
craven
flinch
covetous
9. An outcast a rejected and despised person
pariah
enervate
argot
cadge
10. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
veneration
drone
colander
repel
11. Too tired
fagged
homiletics
dereliction
cumbersome
12. Rubbed off worn away by friction
auspicious
wean
abraded
discrete
13. Fill with fury or rage
ignoble
infuriate
undulate
striated
14. Lying; habitually dishonest
relapse
ambiguous
molt
mendacious
15. Scold reproach
submerge
parley
dislodge
upbraid
16. Dismal - mourful
reverent
ingest
doleful
edible
17. Irritable easily angered
denouement
irascible
ebullience
gullible
18. Fertile
spear
insinuate
commemorate
fecund
19. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
arrant
slack
restive
exoneration
20. Make or become soft by soaking in water
macerate
wince
extinguish
allegiance
21. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
veer
macabre
pliant
taunt
22. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
contentious
feckless
forge
hoodwink
23. To cause to adhere - as with glue
vivacious
agglutinate
solvent
obtain
24. In enjoy warmth and light
abate
ire
travesty
bask
25. Show much fondness center one's attention
dote
stickler
candid
convoke
26. Strong energetic
vigorous
recompense
husk
nonchalant
27. An inexperienced person.
wanton
mendacity
partisan
fledgling
28. Continue doing something without resting
ramify
plod
imperturbable
crease
29. Shining brilliant
implicit
refulgent
pileous
assiduous
30. Confuse embarrass
discomfit
descry
euphoria
conjoin
31. Fail/move/fall clumsily
hollow
flop
indistinct
snare
32. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
splice
assail
impiety
harrow
33. Ask earnestly
lithe
credulity
beguile
entreat
34. Cautious wary
vacillation
forge
chary
purvey
35. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
pious
antithetical
foppish
inferno
36. Pure
sinuous
chaste
extinguish
stigma
37. Dishonorable common undignified
occluded
ignoble
lumber
audacious
38. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
fringe
coy
recast
allegiance
39. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
slate
droll
jabber
insouciant
40. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
disrobe
introspection
extenuate
censure
41. Careful economical
peripatetic
frugal
sumptuous
skiff
42. Not paying proper attention
propagation
salvage
inadvertent
empirical
43. Waste away bite steadily
gnaw
sanity
voluptuous
riddle
44. Gloomy dark sullen morose
laudatory
scorch
saturnine
sycophant
45. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
ire
cryptic
idolatry
pinch
46. Making unpure poorer in quality
chicanery
epicurean
adulteration
sawdust
47. Cannot be cured or corrected
platitude
invective
slake
incorrigibility
48. Repeal or annul by authority
abrogate
render
streak
delineate
49. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
stolid
topple
perjury
substantiation
50. Fall back again
vituperate
astute
relapse
prodigal