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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Making unpure poorer in quality
balk
adulteration
clot
temperate
2. Be destroyed decay
foster
perish
fret
spurn
3. Gibe make fun of
jibe
philanthropist
preponderance
suffocate
4. Get to the root of
fervor
wean
plumb
redeem
5. Person dishonestly claiming to something
tractable
sententious
quack
middling
6. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
recuperate
jibe
dexterity
indulge
7. Sparkle
coruscate
augury
ruffian
dynamo
8. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
commuter
impute
belabor
9. Affirm something to be true
aver
equivocal
divestiture
cadge
10. To praise highly
idolatry
extol
jocular
partisan
11. Make or become stiff and solid
ruddy
flinch
impute
congeal
12. Much too high or great
boisterous
exorbitant
moribund
incipient
13. Stubborn narrow-minded person
nascent
ford
bigot
strive
14. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
repine
heretic
welter
opaqueness
15. Flood cover by overflowing
forge
antidote
frugal
inundate
16. Suddenly changeable
sublime
grouse
tangential
blandness
17. Gloomy dark sullen morose
imprecation
saturnine
levee
aseptic
18. Trying to please; obliging
pliant
complaisant
subdue
corroboration
19. Dishes made of baked clay
earthenware
assiduous
cravat
gaucherie
20. Upset the self-possession of
pedestrian
disconcert
centurion
serration
21. Nurture care for
repulsive
lackluster
indelible
foster
22. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
rumple
detumescence
coda
precarious
23. Write in scholarly fashion
apropos
lucubrate
deluge
slate
24. A piece of broken pottery
veneration
contiguous
shard
slack
25. Brief and to the point
inchoate
pillage
terse
recreancy
26. Say or do again several times
complaisant
boggle
reiterate
feud
27. Incapable of failure or error
disheveled
foolproof
inculcate
flamboyant
28. Real rightly named
veritable
misanthrope
bequest
oblivious
29. Rising of people to open resistance to
evasive
insurrection
assiduous
quiescence
30. Become quiet or less active
vacillation
esoteric
lull
disingenuous
31. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
welter
mercurial
obfuscate
imperative
32. Break off
sophisticated
sever
regale
elicit
33. Kind of stone inflexible
savor
sluggard
insularity
adamant
34. Bombastic
hollow
fustian
teetotal
euthanasia
35. Lower the quality weaken the strength
legacy
vitiate
desuetude
hollow
36. Disown refuse to accept or pay
repudiate
cogent
counterfeit
brash
37. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
squalid
dainty
disconcert
trite
38. Arrangement to give something at death
reminiscent
aseptic
bequest
cantankerous
39. Rash indiscreet
engrave
impudent
wan
privation
40. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
dogmatic
ardor
ascribe
recidivism
41. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
defalcate
sadastic
rave
entice
42. Causing a feeling of disgust
voluble
repulsive
gouge
gerontocracy
43. Dig up from the earth
apropos
disinter
coax
dissemble
44. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
fracas
manacle
breach
45. More then is needed or wanted
unscathed
vacuity
superfluous
interdict
46. Propriety properness
decorum
cravat
synopsis
demur
47. Crouch shrink back
chisel
shun
burnish
cower
48. Liking to give hospitality
middling
clientele
hospitable
pundit
49. Bring up announce begin to talk about
edacious
broach
requite
saturnine
50. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
sophistry
harbinger
centurion
sawdust