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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. Approval
approbation
sluggard
moribund
condense
2. Self-confidence
heterogeneous
vivacious
aplomb
dereliction
3. A supporting bar
strut
stifled
abeyance
misogynist
4. Interfere with
concord
petulant
wan
tamper
5. Sweet-smelling
infuriate
lien
countenance
fragrant
6. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
buoyant
infuriate
partisan
ebullience
7. Lose courage turn frightened
enthral
sullied
knit
quail
8. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
mellifluous
pry
yeoman
recluse
9. Unresisting submissive
redeem
repel
resigned
ale
10. Person who is slow waste of time
adorn
detumescence
countenance
dawdler
11. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
manacle
superfluous
ameliorate
balk
12. Disobedient
insensible
implosion
recalcitrant
auxiliary
13. To delight or entertain to feast
gorge
sanity
regale
sodden
14. Severe suffering
anguish
ensign
quotidian
proliferate
15. Soft light delicate material
invective
gossamer
endorse
pique
16. Gibe make fun of
tautology
credulous
jibe
wan
17. Protest against express disapproval of
epitome
deprecate
vitiate
stifled
18. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
convoluted
surfeit
pristine
nebulous
19. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
agglutinate
calipers
tenacity
pique
20. Avoided - kept away from
shunned
immutable
predominate
amalgamate
21. Of the present time only
tangential
cornucopia
hubris
provisional
22. Dishes made of baked clay
diatribe
earthenware
cohort
germane
23. To portray depict sketch out
froward
stentorian
delineate
eddy
24. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
trencherman
sophistry
credulous
servile
25. Pedant authority on a subject
pundit
arrogance
ebullient
indulge
26. Person who attacks popular beliefs
rant
imperviousness
cogent
iconoclast
27. Bring into harmony
assiduous
reminiscent
attune
disinter
28. Person who lives alone and avoids people
recluse
putrefaction
apropos
expatiate
29. Offensive disgusting (smell)
disinter
noisome
falter
vituperate
30. Likely to be useful for a purpose
vilify
writ
umbrage
expedient
31. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
guile
pith
blandishment
antidote
32. Fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
brittle
endorse
volubility
succumb
33. Assistance relief in time of distress
forestall
rapacious
prudish
succor
34. Demeanor
surcharge
mien
incise
mince
35. Deeply moving keen
poignant
tadpole
hapless
bedizen
36. Delicate way of dealing with a situation
finesse
obfuscate
acumen
ascend
37. Call together summon
surfeit
splenetic
convoke
crease
38. Arrogant pride
hubris
relapse
hoodwink
abstruse
39. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
idiosyncrasy
plethora
apostate
enigma
40. Person who hates mankind
introspection
palpitate
misanthrope
tadpole
41. Paint with dots
stipple
knit
feckless
extinct
42. Engrave make a cut in
mite
derision
incise
distrait
43. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
flop
connote
prevaricate
presage
44. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
cabal
arrogance
curmudgeon
suffice
45. Poverty
ambrosial
ascetic
indigence
refractory
46. (adj) boorish
churlish
picaresque
sanguine
feud
47. Humorous funny jocular
cogitate
ebullience
facetious
dulcet
48. Additional strengthening evidence
simper
collusion
heterogeneous
corroboration
49. Unlawful forbidden
invective
illicit
ferment
philanthropist
50. To resist separation
bigot
cling
turquoise
console