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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Uncommunicativeness
gossamer
dilate
recreancy
reticence
2. A long passionate speech
harangue
interim
flimsy
irate
3. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
plead
underbid
collusion
agile
4. Gruesome suggesting death
complaisant
macabre
mischievous
fetid
5. Magnificent
palatial
entreat
descry
fringe
6. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
pied
maul
lavish
vanquish
7. Get to know
vagary
penchant
ascertain
pry
8. Brief and to the point
opprobrious
terse
hack
sanction
9. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
epiphany
plea
heinous
exhaustive
10. A connection tie or link
permeate
plaque
engender
nexus
11. Have deep respect for
penury
penchant
clientele
revere
12. Easily done
fidelity
salvage
facile
immaculate
13. Being uncertain hesitating
presumption
vacillation
incorrigibility
plaintive
14. Discourage hinder
personable
deter
didactic
eddy
15. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
demagogue
ale
roll
pluck
16. Call calling of names
roll
mischievous
blase
detraction
17. Additional load/charge
infuse
pucker
surcharge
indistinct
18. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
propitious
unfeigned
jocular
plunge
19. Brave
cohort
hack
veneer
valiant
20. Extreme astounding
solvent
sublime
collusion
superfluous
21. Diligent hard-working sedulous
privation
assiduous
chaste
vestige
22. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
perfidy
impervious
toady
collusion
23. Childish
scribble
submerge
floe
puerile
24. Obsequious flatterer
lionize
shrill
toady
ponderous
25. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
forgery
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
stentorian
indistinct
26. Person dishonestly claiming to something
savant
intrepid
recidivism
quack
27. Irritable easily angered
susceptibility
deluge
servile
irascible
28. Move along with long strides
loquacious
lope
severance
efficacy
29. Very great number
ferment
maudlin
myriad
prodigal
30. A group or band of people
dissemble
cognizant
pliant
cohort
31. Substance that causes speeding up
eradicate
hermetic
mendacious
catalyst
32. Likely to come or happen soon
imprecation
ascribe
intrepid
imminent
33. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
delineate
audacious
dynamo
officious
34. Show much fondness center one's attention
jejune
floe
sophisticated
dote
35. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
vitiate
imperviousness
overweening
agog
36. A carefree episode or experience
condense
thrift
rebus
idyll
37. A sheet of floating ice
paucity
floe
intransigent
relapse
38. Put pour fill
lament
infuse
pitfall
coax
39. Commanding haughty arrogant
turgid
boisterous
imperious
tamp
40. Making dear or liked
noxious
enduring
arrant
endearing
41. Noisy quarrel
prolix
gnaw
cogitate
fracas
42. Say or do again several times
reiterate
legacy
blatant
Conduce
43. Treat with contempt
jagged
impecunious
appease
snub
44. Take the place of
propagation
avid
sumptuous
supersede
45. Break off
assail
infuse
discrete
sever
46. Bring up announce begin to talk about
reproach
conundrum
broach
conceal
47. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
miser
trifling
cloture
arduous
48. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
plaintive
evince
derision
baleful
49. An invocation of evil a curse
imprecation
nugatory
console
rabble
50. Sparkle
catalyst
glimmer
coruscate
facile