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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. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
pariah
foray
exigency
eddy
2. Crime of killing a king
impermeable
regicide
fret
ingenuous
3. Exercises to develop strong bodies
cohort
calisthenics
garble
belligerent
4. Obtain by threats violence
illicit
austere
extort
contumacious
5. Keep the memory of
commemorate
enigma
molt
bogus
6. Intimidate make fearful
engender
flimsy
daunt
hush
7. To cut out cut away
sodden
exscind
obtuse
dilate
8. Persevering
sedulous
lugubrious
scent
aggravate
9. Quick changeable in character fleeting
fawn
mercurial
gorge
corporeal
10. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
benevolence
precursors
tamper
taut
11. Mark of shame or disgrace
steeply
irrevocable
fluster
stigma
12. Scarcity a lacking of
recidivism
paucity
endemic
privation
13. Flow in drops
propitiatory
trickle
coeval
verve
14. Person who insists on importance of something
apostate
infuse
stickler
ineptitude
15. Careful economical
frugal
vacillation
peremptory
peccadillo
16. Frame with balls for calculating
putrefaction
idiosyncrasy
abacus
recant
17. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
propinquity
shun
lassitude
dubious
18. Care economy thriving prosperous
deviance
quandary
introspection
thrift
19. To move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
indolence
undulate
foible
probity
20. Too strong to be defeated
quotidian
virago
invincible
abeyance
21. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
fringe
exoneration
aloof
immaculate
22. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
forgery
conceal
palpitate
23. Treat with contempt
snub
specious
extenuate
aversion
24. A riddle dilemma enigma
impede
esoteric
conundrum
fallacious
25. Disapprove of
inferno
decry
malinger
ebullient
26. Proof to the contrary
expedient
enervate
premature
disproof
27. Have deep respect for
revere
smolder
antidote
dainty
28. Ridicule mockery deriding
roll
derision
crease
depredation
29. Confuse embarrass
discomfit
coy
verve
Palpable
30. Unreasonably impatient
churl
petulant
palliate
berate
31. Write hastily
labyrinthine
scribble
regicide
recondite
32. A sheet of floating ice
raffish
palatial
floe
apostate
33. Crawl humble oneself
sadastic
auspicious
grovel
dynamo
34. Coming together and uniting into one substance
conciliatory
coalescing
perfunctory
nebulous
35. Forgive
blandishment
desultory
condone
fragile
36. A generator something that produces electric current
barrage
admonitory
dynamo
soggy
37. To be involved
retard
scurvy
stigma
implicate
38. Without previous thought or preparation
chicanery
extempore
topple
agglutinate
39. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
expostulate
obloquy
loll
abeyance
40. Draw out
heed
elicit
pluck
stint
41. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
thrift
obtrusive
surfeit
stickler
42. Grow forth send out buds
fagged
burgeon
perpetrate
fret
43. Great flood heavy rush of water
ignoble
deluge
plaque
counterfeit
44. Tiresome
irksome
tenacity
bilge
deferential
45. Extreme poverty
somatic
lionize
sanguine
penury
46. Involving or using conversation.
colloquial
conceal
mettle
bigot
47. Widespread
unearth
forgery
impassive
rife
48. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
crush
relapse
pusillanimous
quell
49. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
pulchritude
imperturbable
recreancy
intransigence
50. Change direction
veer
slate
macerate
ponderous