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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. Quality or condition of being sober
spurious
sobriety
condone
crass
2. Making dear or liked
endearing
broach
repine
sermon
3. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
cower
stanch
epicurean
welter
4. Person who eats a lot
obfuscate
flimsy
trencherman
squat
5. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
frantic
vindictive
deluge
discredit
6. Wretched comfortless contemptible
sordid
ineluctable
tassel
gaucherie
7. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
brittle
overhaul
hallow
turbid
8. Deliver provide represent
edify
assuage
cravat
render
9. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
rapacious
cogent
pliant
ossify
10. Draw out
dereliction
elicit
introvert
multifarious
11. Warm and sincere
extirpate
imprecation
cordial
weigh
12. Mix combine unite societies
amalgamate
laudatory
fulsome
knit
13. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
effrontery
dissent
deprave
preen
14. Easily controlled or guided
tractable
ail
abhor
berate
15. Repay give in return
rabble
requite
suborn
sermon
16. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
picaresque
smolder
macerate
complaisance
17. To make great efforts - to struggle
strive
dupe
urbane
splice
18. Vexation
sanity
duress
chagrin
countervail
19. Give notice to inform
augury
abut
retinue
apprise
20. A very small amount - portion - or particle
yarn
lucubrate
mite
hypocrisy
21. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
poncho
froward
inchoate
catalyst
22. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
quaff
obloquy
imperative
alleviate
23. Strong inclination a liking
exigency
penchant
incredulous
savor
24. Grow forth send out buds
pedantic
abraded
forbearance
burgeon
25. Serious requiring consideration
nugatory
grave
abet
insinuate
26. Wish or activity in doing good
benevolence
equanimity
ineffable
resigned
27. Blacken belittle sully defame
distrait
reiterate
subpoena
denigrate
28. Trick mislead
flop
palpability
hoodwink
lumber
29. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
recuperate
ascetic
cower
multifarious
30. Bold
agog
spear
audacious
palatial
31. To bring about
shard
requite
Conduce
sinuous
32. To tolerate endure
brook
bewilder
rebuff
ostentation
33. Recess/partially enclosed place
tarnished
alcove
Conduce
rarefy
34. Sham counterfeit not genuine
sycophant
bogus
libertine
blatant
35. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
desultory
esoteric
sporadic
disconcert
36. Fairly good but not very good
exscind
yeoman
middling
dissemble
37. Break off
vitiate
implacable
predilection
sever
38. Laziness
truce
pristine
indolence
flop
39. Briefly without delay
nibble
summarily
feckless
distraught
40. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
purvey
nascent
fatuous
turmoil
41. Greatness in number strength weight
hauteur
preponderance
asperity
waffle
42. Showing scorn or reproach
impudent
opprobrious
nascent
dwarf
43. Waste away bite steadily
volatile
gnaw
suppress
apprise
44. Accustomed to adapted
antidote
lament
inured
scurvy
45. (adj) boorish
resilience
tangential
churlish
glib
46. Interfere with
shunned
mischievous
delineate
tamper
47. Rise fly high
liberality
soar
inane
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
48. To delight or entertain to feast
pitfall
misogynist
regale
variegate
49. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
rabble
relapse
apprehensive
50. Long thin move very fast
streak
corroboration
peremptory
malleable