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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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1. Being uncontrolled violent
sullied
writ
flax
turbulence
2. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
ale
impute
gust
inscrutable
3. Make morally bad corrupt
luminary
heed
deprave
sting
4. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
garrulous
predominate
sycophant
lustrous
5. Slander say evil things
reticent
mercurial
vilify
waft
6. Arrogant conceited
sordid
accretion
sycophant
haughty
7. Act of preaching
extenuate
flak
heterogeneous
homiletics
8. Granting of privileges in return for similar
testiness
feint
reciprocity
dwarf
9. Merry person
cower
wag
elegy
warmonger
10. Draw move back wince
flinch
ruddy
shrewd
divergence
11. Adjective
epithet
mendacity
suppliant
discountenance
12. Move along with long strides
lope
thrift
assiduous
veer
13. Describe somebody scornfully
sanction
stigmatize
cling
apt
14. Gather facts in small quantities
glean
treacherous
perch
empirical
15. Suggestion in addition to
connotation
fission
evoke
pinch
16. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
canvass
jejune
ail
expostulate
17. Severe criticism
repulsive
excoriation
gush
reticent
18. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
conciliatory
heterogeneous
ascribe
spurn
19. Low vulgar base tawdry
hack
excoriation
finical
raffish
20. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
cordon
splice
malleable
chastened
21. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
propagation
irascible
ferocity
epiphany
22. At be discontented with
aseptic
tamp
effete
repine
23. No use person something that fails
perpetrate
dud
cumbersome
nonplused
24. Burn slowly without flame
sagacious
chauvinist
aberration
smolder
25. Cowardly craven
perish
articulate
pusillanimous
stint
26. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
coy
plethora
cumbersome
glib
27. Discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
lope
grievous
bandy
revere
28. Improve make better
vitriolic
renovate
fission
ameliorate
29. A quack remedy an untested cure
tadpole
nostrum
inveigh
stentorian
30. Abundant/lavish
quiescence
inane
concur
profuse
31. (person nation) waging war
belligerent
baneful
tamper
felon
32. Not soled with hole
complaisance
vacuity
hollow
contiguous
33. One who considers himself smarter than others
pith
sadastic
punitive
aleck
34. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
palate
ail
detumescence
taunt
35. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
orison
disseminate
precarious
suborn
36. Talkative garrulous
loquacious
sanction
pith
taciturn
37. Having little or no money
attenuate
exoneration
impecunious
encomium
38. To cause to adhere - as with glue
imminent
garrulous
agglutinate
punctilious
39. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
dereliction
hirsute
dearth
catalyst
40. Fail/move/fall clumsily
extant
flop
centurion
austere
41. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
eschew
inquest
enmity
muffler
42. Uncommunicativeness
reticence
curriculum
edacious
imprecation
43. Waste away bite steadily
imprecation
gnaw
sophistry
avow
44. Happening from time to time
sporadic
congeal
alacrity
sophisticated
45. Use until none remains
deplete
imbroglio
idiosyncrasy
balk
46. Causing tears tearful
massacre
hoi
lachrymose
machination
47. To tolerate endure
quell
substantiation
transient
brook
48. Dismal - mourful
strive
nonplused
doleful
finical
49. Insubordinate rebellious
quirk
impending
propinquity
contumacious
50. Perfect/make perfect/complete
consummate
dirge
coerce
privation