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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. Complex subtle refined
striated
sophisticated
unearth
entice
2. Showing self-control
temperate
engulf
macerate
sawdust
3. Learned scholarly
tenuous
hypocrisy
erudite
perch
4. Treat as a famous person
dawdler
grave
calisthenics
lionize
5. Anger
partisan
ire
earthenware
disproof
6. Cast or fashion anew
equanimity
liberality
recast
augury
7. Rich and deep plump and round
coruscate
duplicity
salutary
rotund
8. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
foppish
voluble
phlegmatic
ecumenical
9. Not soled with hole
hollow
drone
puerile
coeval
10. Perfect/make perfect/complete
sobriety
correlate
gallant
consummate
11. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
weigh
indelible
squat
palpitate
12. Sentence within another one something separated
parenthesis
roll
saturnine
fragrant
13. Based on error
fallacious
finesse
verve
gloat
14. At be discontented with
succumb
sententious
repine
valiant
15. Fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
pertain
grandiloquent
volubility
retinue
16. Substance that shrinks
holster
astringent
philanthropist
malleable
17. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
exscind
perfidy
barren
pedestrian
18. Dismal - mourful
benign
palpability
doleful
tassel
19. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
squander
officious
retrograde
dupe
20. Address a court of law as an advocate
plead
orison
hew
transitory
21. Written order
plummet
writ
vitriolic
calipers
22. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
coddle
striated
sophistry
oblivious
23. Easily done
grave
flamboyant
antithetical
facile
24. Without taste or flavor
covert
insensible
insipid
decry
25. Coming together and uniting into one substance
coalescing
secular
exploit
dawdler
26. Diligent hard-working sedulous
reticence
blatant
assiduous
apotheosis
27. Harmful or unfriendly
garble
obtuse
inimical
plaque
28. To cause to adhere - as with glue
chauvinist
taciturn
agglutinate
undermine
29. Keeping on putting off
brook
wag
quixotic
procrastination
30. Shout complain with a lot of noise
contrite
pied
clamor
mien
31. To equivocate to stray from the truth
grumble
prevaricate
fervor
incorrigibility
32. Habit or action peculiar to something
quirk
inept
itinerate
connoisseur
33. Get somebody to do something by kindness
rife
coax
jibe
censure
34. Feeling of regret for one's action
strut
crass
compunction
grievous
35. Speech lecture
coy
discourse
synopsis
nonplused
36. Agreement or harmony
curtail
concord
warrant
lionize
37. Complex
impermeable
meretricious
involute
hirsute
38. Jargon slang
argot
balk
welter
complaisant
39. Weariness tiredness
lassitude
inclined
overweening
exuberance
40. State of growing vigorously being full of life
exuberance
offhand
expedient
indigence
41. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
vitriolic
disallow
lassitude
combustion
42. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
deprecate
rancorous
coy
arrant
43. Lucky stroke
salubrious
fluke
plaque
divestiture
44. Write in scholarly fashion
permeate
craven
lucubrate
eddy
45. Lacking solidarity - strength
epiphany
conciliatory
flimsy
benign
46. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
adorn
shrill
rabble
mettle
47. Brave -behaves well with women
imminent
jabber
gallant
stifled
48. Use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
embezzle
extinct
valiant
concur
49. Too great a readiness to believe things
dislodge
credulity
voluptuous
abhor
50. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
ostensible
espouse
scribble
eddy