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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. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
manacle
partisan
vilify
exhaustive
2. Granting of privileges in return for similar
fallacious
resuscitation
propitiatory
reciprocity
3. Proud superior manner of behaviour
epithet
arrogance
superfluous
inscrutable
4. Put into difficulties
implicit
cursory
mite
entangle
5. Incapable of failure or error
foolproof
dynamo
tamp
precursory
6. Suspended action
eddy
abeyance
ubiquitous
warrant
7. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
finical
contrite
saturnine
sinuous
8. Person who travels regularly
poncho
aspersion
ale
commuter
9. Complete thorough
odor
uncouth
fledged
exhaustive
10. Denounce as dangerous
intransigence
proscribe
spear
intersperse
11. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
deviance
baleful
stint
preponderance
12. Agree in opinion happen together
riddle
punitive
dote
concur
13. Narrow-mindedness isolated
illicit
reactionary
aversion
insularity
14. (person nation) waging war
belligerent
warrant
hapless
rancorous
15. Way out exit
egress
torpid
clot
foil
16. Order given by authority
petrified
decree
defer
trite
17. Pleasing in appearance attractive
agglutinate
procrastination
opprobrious
personable
18. Complex
innocuous
yeoman
involute
harbinger
19. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
balk
imbroglio
belabor
stygian
20. Postpone
recondite
defer
ignoble
extralegal
21. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
whimsical
scurvy
vain
taciturn
22. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
entangle
cabal
implicit
dulcet
23. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
sketchy
palatial
livid
gourmand
24. Patience willingness to wait
overhaul
peregrination
forbearance
viscous
25. Delicate way of dealing with a situation
irascible
abjure
finesse
specious
26. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
pervade
temperance
castigation
wince
27. Mournful excessively sad
striated
deplete
enervate
lugubrious
28. Well-suited; quick-witted
tassel
nonplused
corroboration
apt
29. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
insurrection
telltale
sophomoric
scalding
30. Of connected with trees
arboreal
somersault
delineate
sublime
31. Ready and smooth but not sincere
hypocrisy
glib
impending
ambivalent
32. Warmth of feelings earnestness
fervor
puerile
desuetude
falter
33. Ending expiring
unencumbered
epicurean
ubiquitous
expiation
34. A long passionate speech
harangue
precursory
goad
inane
35. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
presentiment
emote
indigence
flout
36. Show feel great sorrow
picaresque
grovel
lament
cordon
37. Show much fondness center one's attention
dote
salvage
poncho
credulous
38. Omen sign
augury
mendacious
deviance
salvage
39. Suddenly changeable
redoubtable
tangential
arrogance
virago
40. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
incumbents
inept
foible
inclined
41. Odious (of crime)
blandness
complaisance
heinous
pellucid
42. Oppose to alcohol
teetotal
cantankerous
distraught
sadastic
43. Include under a rule
penury
resigned
subsume
obviate
44. Coming into existence emerging
concur
extempore
nascent
cantankerous
45. Sticky/semi-fluid
finical
obtain
chastisement
viscous
46. Finical
finicky
spurn
yeoman
slur
47. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
pique
trifling
effluvia
extinguish
48. Give comfort or sympathy to
voluble
decry
fragrant
console
49. Extreme astounding
cursory
luminary
sublime
paean
50. Furiously angry - enraged
livid
ardor
counterfeit
dissent