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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. Get to know
limp
riddle
ascertain
petrified
2. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
pivotal
raffish
combustion
partisan
3. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
dainty
inadvertent
cantankerous
ingenuous
4. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
efface
nibble
maladroit
voluptuous
5. Crouch/settle without permission
lassitude
profundity
squat
fleet
6. Change direction suddenly
protracted
sycophant
scalding
swerve
7. To be thrifty to set limits
colloquial
matriculation
ramify
stint
8. Surprise and fear dismay
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
apostate
impute
consternation
9. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
quandary
rancorous
tortuous
10. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
abate
gourmand
ingest
hew
11. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
warmonger
shun
hapless
12. Distracted
libertine
cornucopia
coddle
distrait
13. Worsen diminish in value
soporific
reminiscent
impair
tamper
14. Something that is puzzling
succor
refine
vanquish
enigma
15. Engrave make a cut in
minatory
implacable
incise
coda
16. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
wan
lionize
arduous
repel
17. Use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
sublime
ignominious
thrift
embezzle
18. Act with excessive enthusiasm
rave
excoriation
visceral
pristine
19. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
supersede
eddy
stride
countervail
20. Loyalty accuracy
plod
fidelity
incise
piquant
21. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
mendacity
bigot
craven
apprehensive
22. Surgically clean
droll
extinguish
aseptic
savor
23. Dull and slow
jagged
extralegal
stickler
torpid
24. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
trenchant
taciturn
esoteric
incipient
25. Show off complacently
flaunting
fringe
salutary
peremptory
26. Discover by searching search
imminent
preternatural
pucker
ferret
27. Fall plunge steeply
presentiment
dexterity
hallow
plummet
28. Being uncontrolled violent
aseptic
weigh
turbulence
thwart
29. Weak/unsteady light
regicide
somatic
glimmer
august
30. (person) with superior tastes
indefatigability
expedient
highbrow
somatic
31. Hence dark gloomy
stygian
pliant
portent
malleable
32. Trace or sign
inimitable
vestige
floe
disseminate
33. Mischievous trick played to deceive
hoax
extempore
discern
Conduce
34. Easily understood lucid clear
blase
ostentation
sagacious
luculent
35. Unspoken - silent
taciturn
dogmatic
exorbitant
enzyme
36. Meant as a joke
jocular
coalescing
enigma
vindictive
37. Intended to instruct
perpetrate
apotheosis
didactic
shunned
38. Trouble disturbance
indulge
turmoil
puerile
enduring
39. To make hard rocklike
provident
scent
shrill
petrify
40. Outside the law
discrete
vigorous
extralegal
tawdry
41. Cruel
brash
feud
ramify
sadastic
42. Instruct; correct morally
extempore
irresolute
edify
fatuous
43. Oppose to alcohol
splenetic
teetotal
indistinct
ramify
44. Stinking
profane
pertain
fetid
foil
45. Coming into existence emerging
abdication
tractable
nascent
sever
46. Lessen the severity of
facile
palliate
rotund
ebullience
47. Learned scholarly
blandishment
trepidation
erudite
cogent
48. Repeal/annul/cancel
conceal
sponge
rescind
arduous
49. Move force from the place occupied
peremptory
premature
dislodge
assail
50. Crime of killing a king
indulge
evince
regicide
turgid