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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. Tiring because too long
morose
abscond
prolix
mendacity
2. Having a toothed edge
chauvinist
goad
desiccant
serrated
3. Compel
constrain
boisterous
malinger
dubious
4. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
calipers
overhaul
exculpate
flop
5. Of the power of forming a solution
chastisement
redeem
catalyst
solvent
6. Sharpness stinging quality
delineate
pungency
procrastination
expostulate
7. Tactless clumsy
inadvertent
inept
maladroit
gregarious
8. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
extrovert
interim
derogatory
probity
9. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
exorbitant
dissolution
waft
burnish
10. Arrogance
presumption
drone
sobriquet
consummate
11. Distracted violently upset in mind
vanquish
ale
distraught
assiduous
12. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
baleful
servile
endemic
urbane
13. Make quiet or calm
consummate
espouse
shard
appease
14. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
falter
eclat
fulmination
conundrum
15. Majestic venerable
minatory
desiccant
repudiate
august
16. Blacken belittle sully defame
holster
denigrate
occluded
petulant
17. That cannot be changed
ulterior
spurious
immutable
turmoil
18. Inclined to fighting
sumptuous
loquacious
stride
bellicose
19. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
sere
impromptu
quixotic
secular
20. Attention/give notice to
hew
heed
illicit
vehemence
21. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
curtail
pellucid
pest
squander
22. Break off
discomfit
sever
dupe
aseptic
23. Repeal/annul/cancel
cabal
avow
proscribe
rescind
24. To take in marriage
sanctimony
remonstrate
espouse
forge
25. Preliminary anticipating
precursory
crass
puerile
dilate
26. Soaked saturated
vindictive
sodden
vestige
ensign
27. Insubordinate rebellious
contumacious
dislodge
sophistry
flout
28. Worry irritation wear away
fret
stipple
odium
expatiate
29. Dig up from the earth
disinter
ensconce
hauteur
presumption
30. Polloi the masses the rabble
emaciate
hoi
protracted
coddle
31. Worked out with much care in great detail
extrovert
consummate
elaborate
voluptuous
32. Shameless immorality
profligacy
euthanasia
pinch
malapropism
33. Cheerful confident optimistic
barrage
sanguine
cumbersome
pucker
34. Happening from time to time
candid
sporadic
deprave
permeate
35. Difficult to comprehend obscure
abstruse
philanthropist
ascribe
matriculation
36. Person who has given help
approbation
benefactor
jocular
loll
37. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
disinter
taut
aseptic
ossify
38. Lucky stroke
petulant
fluke
correlate
verisimilitude
39. Person who eats a lot
droll
volubility
trencherman
recreancy
40. Feeling doubt
indefatigability
dubious
odor
churlish
41. Astute showing sound judgement
divulge
shrewd
sporadic
recitals
42. Unaware having no memory
expedient
valorous
fledgling
oblivious
43. State of growing vigorously being full of life
exuberance
perch
heresy
divergence
44. Widespread
orison
fledgling
rife
cajole
45. Settle a quarrel restore peace
reconcile
ominous
impecunious
mettlesome
46. Alarm excited state of mind
abacus
penury
arrogance
trepidation
47. Bookish showing off learning
abraded
rotund
pedantic
quiescence
48. Crime of killing a king
fission
wile
regicide
petulant
49. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
trenchant
halcyon
valorous
palpability
50. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
enigma
somatic
vacuity
ostracism