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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. Repeal or annul by authority
abrogate
massacre
apprehensive
propagation
2. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
caustic
veneer
insinuate
jagged
3. (person nation) waging war
entice
belligerent
maverick
acumen
4. Red and healthy
diaphanous
insurrection
rubicund
remonstrate
5. Food for horses and cattle
enervate
forage
efface
alleviate
6. Be unsteady and overturn
topple
lien
secular
irascible
7. Get rid of pull up by the roots
urbane
eradicate
benevolence
welter
8. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
boggle
sadastic
maverick
ulterior
9. Physical beauty
castigation
pulchritude
suppress
vigilance
10. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
incongruous
solvent
lament
abet
11. Person who has been converted to a belief
neophyte
glimmer
edacious
eclat
12. Person of great learning
volubility
sanctimony
savant
render
13. Easily gulled
rejuvenation
ruffian
incessant
gullible
14. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
cabal
affable
gullible
dogmatic
15. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
subdue
pundit
ostracism
alleviate
16. Increase in density strength make laconic
clinch
perfidious
condense
warrant
17. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
corporeal
repast
vehemence
astute
18. Severe pain or suffering
coy
hapless
upbraid
torment
19. Hardship
boorish
privation
commodious
inchoate
20. Drink deeply
quaff
fledged
prevaricate
wan
21. Dishonesty
mendacity
gust
implacable
fecund
22. Omen sign
augury
warrant
florid
cant
23. Quality or condition of being sober
gouge
immaculate
sobriety
blase
24. Secret with a hidden meaning
slur
travesty
gainsay
cryptic
25. Causing no harm
ossify
innocuous
bedizen
scabbard
26. A long passionate speech
putrefaction
harangue
consummate
summarily
27. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
euthanasia
vanquish
effluvia
terse
28. Soft light delicate material
accretion
gossamer
sophistry
grumble
29. Able to fly trained experienced
veritable
erudite
fledged
obsequious
30. State or put forward as a necessary condition
stipulate
interim
strive
malapropism
31. Hence - awkward
curriculum
gauche
centurion
grave
32. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
repine
importune
desuetude
epiphany
33. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
chagrin
encapsulate
propitious
opprobrious
34. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
desultory
transient
flax
preclude
35. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
fleet
apotheosis
impediment
soot
36. Hide keep secret
turgid
conceal
seminal
consequential
37. Prevent from being known put an end to
reticent
pry
pulchritude
suppress
38. Persevering
sedulous
discountenance
gloat
burgeon
39. Happening from time to time
fixate
sporadic
alleviate
grovel
40. In a dying state; near death
apprehensive
raconteur
slack
moribund
41. Make worse irritate
trite
agile
aggravate
sullied
42. Too eager to obey or serve
veneer
approbation
obsequious
nascent
43. Boldness brashness intrepidness
dainty
mischievous
temerity
resigned
44. Make angry
engrossing
incumbents
grouse
incense
45. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
coeval
flak
coy
46. Difficult to comprehend obscure
abstruse
inimical
mellifluous
castigation
47. Refuse to approve of
propitiatory
cognizant
jejune
discountenance
48. Small sin small weakness in one's character
moribund
peccadillo
sketchy
erudite
49. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
prone
perpetrate
sententious
extant
50. Of great importance (others depend on it)
pivotal
astringent
animosity
stygian