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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
feint
arrant
eulogy
temperance
2. Cheerful person
extrovert
pernicious
rapacious
precepts
3. Person guilty of murder
spurious
felon
abstruse
boggle
4. Complain or grumble (verb)
grouse
legacy
paradigm
secular
5. Wander lose one's way
stray
endeavor
fecund
doggerel
6. Tightly stretched
sedulous
unscathed
plead
taut
7. Continue doing something without resting
plod
importune
revere
tawdry
8. Border on
flaunting
liberality
assail
abut
9. Secret with a hidden meaning
prone
cryptic
hoodwink
repine
10. Increase in density strength make laconic
condense
serration
pertain
rumple
11. Say or do again several times
ale
reiterate
concord
debacle
12. Undress
cant
epiphany
disrobe
tautology
13. Give comfort or sympathy to
pulchritude
erudite
eulogy
console
14. Compel to force to make obedient
conviction
latent
nadir
coerce
15. Make thin and weak
extinct
emaciate
nexus
clientele
16. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
connoisseur
finesse
negligent
trifling
17. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
proliferate
perilous
privation
negligent
18. Formal praise panegyric
seminal
repel
eulogy
corporeal
19. Punishment
rancorous
chastisement
oblivious
disseminate
20. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
affable
salubrious
baleful
astute
21. To be established accepted or customary
fetid
obtain
unearth
dupe
22. Agreement or harmony
gallant
countervail
unfeigned
concord
23. Consider to be the origin of or belonging to
brook
espouse
ascribe
fidelity
24. Favorable successful prosperous
rubicund
auspicious
atonement
ire
25. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
shrill
aleck
felon
gush
26. Obscene
agile
edacious
rivet
salacious
27. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
feral
voluble
epitome
enunciate
28. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
repulsive
insinuate
stymie
noxious
29. Strenuous effort
denigrate
lachrymose
expostulate
arduous
30. Make rough
august
espouse
judicious
rumple
31. Lasting
neophyte
raconteur
aloof
enduring
32. Distribute (esp. ideas)
frugal
repast
disseminate
stymie
33. Calm not capable of being excited
discern
submerge
imperturbable
scribble
34. Be out of view ready to attack
precepts
vigilant
apprehensive
lurk
35. Individually distinct
neophyte
libel
discrete
serration
36. Bitter and violent attack in words
foment
profane
pith
diatribe
37. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
fulmination
incongruous
fluster
implicate
38. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
infuse
abjure
probity
extirpate
39. Easy and painless death
visceral
entangle
gorge
euthanasia
40. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
sequence
shrewd
exhaustive
spear
41. Nurture care for
narcissism
vehemence
inferno
foster
42. Opening broken place breaking
breach
cajole
pedestrian
raconteur
43. Course of study
plead
arrogance
complaisant
curriculum
44. Gloomy dark sullen morose
commemorate
ferment
mendacity
saturnine
45. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
reprobate
middling
probity
voluble
46. Giving up control authority
telltale
wile
pundit
abdication
47. Make known something secret
unscathed
divulge
fulsome
repast
48. Burn slowly without flame
flinch
smolder
benign
idyll
49. Person who has been converted to a belief
neophyte
malinger
mien
personable
50. To shackle put in chains
empirical
fetter
indefatigability
temerity