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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. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
immaculate
malinger
waft
intrepid
2. In a dying state; near death
boorish
garrulous
moribund
savant
3. Show bodily or mental pain
agglutinate
obdurate
elegy
wince
4. Act of preaching
stygian
reprobate
homiletics
quaff
5. The point general sense
contumacious
euthanasia
gist
miser
6. Make morally bad corrupt
underbid
bilge
matriculation
deprave
7. Suppressed - kept back
divulge
macerate
stifled
occluded
8. Regular customer person who gives support
detraction
veritable
turquoise
patron
9. Write one's name on the back of
incongruous
endorse
retrospective
abstruse
10. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
crush
attune
mettle
odious
11. Real rightly named
nibble
abacus
veritable
fret
12. Trifling/worthless
nugatory
cravat
dexterity
distraught
13. Proud superior manner of behaviour
grave
reprobate
arrogance
underbid
14. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
opprobrious
portent
ambivalent
plaintive
15. Accumulate
resigned
accrue
regicide
jabber
16. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
irrevocable
turpitude
dainty
moribund
17. Tactless clumsy
maladroit
gorge
curriculum
liberality
18. Rubbed off worn away by friction
abraded
reminiscent
veneer
vilify
19. Dangerous
extralegal
perilous
mercurial
susceptibility
20. Easily done
facile
fragile
constrain
plunge
21. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
pucker
detraction
middling
pry
22. Distracted
prudish
pique
distrait
fetid
23. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
derogatory
tawdry
fidelity
chagrin
24. To hate to detest
abhor
glean
obfuscate
sagacious
25. Final and unalterable
idyll
extenuate
irrevocable
conviction
26. Be unsteady and overturn
odious
rancorous
topple
panegyric
27. Obtain by threats violence
attenuate
extort
vituperate
tadpole
28. Brutal racial discrimination
tortuous
overweening
apartheid
philanthropist
29. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
stigmatize
gouge
incense
rife
30. Red and healthy
malleable
dwarf
rubicund
incursion
31. Rise fly high
soar
antidote
gregarious
reticent
32. Challenged to be doubted
diaphanous
imperative
gaucherie
impugned
33. Easy and painless death
pinch
equanimity
elaborate
euthanasia
34. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
pluck
frugal
attune
gust
35. Deliberate deception
extinguish
panegyric
discountenance
duplicity
36. Expressing or giving praise
laudatory
paucity
audacious
judicious
37. That cannot be changed
somersault
latent
vagary
immutable
38. Call together summon
misogynist
baneful
convoke
incise
39. Causing a feeling of disgust
subsume
inquest
repulsive
alleviate
40. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
voluptuous
warmonger
disparate
41. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
incessant
recidivism
quibble
42. Official duties
incumbents
sinuous
abscond
peccadillo
43. To be involved
implicate
specious
ambrosial
refine
44. Counterbalance
countervail
relapse
susceptibility
importune
45. Flood cover by overflowing
inundate
recuperate
dilate
maverick
46. Weariness tiredness
lassitude
panegyric
paradigm
elicit
47. Think deeply mediate
ulterior
fetid
edacious
cogitate
48. A lament a melancholy composition
elegy
commuter
credulous
dote
49. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
indistinct
heresy
colander
goad
50. Make a lower bid then somebody else
desiccant
turbid
dissemble
underbid