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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. Lowest weakest point
nadir
tractable
tarnished
weigh
2. Bring up announce begin to talk about
germane
voluble
broach
lithe
3. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
Palpable
molt
presumption
nibble
4. Try to win
slur
viscous
suppress
woo
5. To shackle put in chains
divulge
supplicate
subpoena
fetter
6. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
writ
sawdust
suffocate
ingest
7. Deliver provide represent
inchoate
incredulous
ambiguous
render
8. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
interdict
fluke
reprobate
opaqueness
9. Distracted
infuriate
placate
distrait
mien
10. Strong convincing
cogent
chicanery
vacuity
auxiliary
11. Mischievous trick played to deceive
palpability
hoax
luculent
inveigh
12. Responsilibilty -burden
brash
impiety
onus
dearth
13. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
variegate
dereliction
conceal
scabbard
14. Use extravagant language
erratic
irascible
obfuscate
rant
15. To venture
forfeit
covetous
foray
strut
16. Brief
blandness
transitory
irksome
denigrate
17. Easy and painless death
euthanasia
sordid
decorum
imperviousness
18. Bad-tempered irritable
noisome
severance
officious
splenetic
19. Containing warning
discourse
bereft
admonitory
sagacious
20. Person who is slow waste of time
sobriquet
gossamer
dawdler
odium
21. Lucky stroke
Palpable
ingenuous
fluke
sophomoric
22. A connection tie or link
nexus
fleet
repel
soar
23. Threatening
timorous
profligate
ominous
woo
24. Common
cogent
overhaul
tonic
prevalent
25. Of the present time only
dislodge
castigation
apprise
provisional
26. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
dirge
interdict
detumescence
preen
27. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
bedizen
efficacy
serrated
solvent
28. Shout complain with a lot of noise
flop
ponderous
clamor
indolence
29. Person much smaller the usual size
variegate
dwarf
massacre
vitriolic
30. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
dissent
august
epitome
temperance
31. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
neophyte
redeem
austere
32. Calmness of temperament
supersede
equanimity
clamor
chaste
33. End the existence of/wipe or put out
extinguish
apartheid
tenacity
connoisseur
34. Exuberance outburst of feeling
raconteur
balk
ebullience
reactionary
35. Living in societies liking the company
encomium
baneful
gregarious
fecund
36. To make hard rocklike
prim
petrify
dwarf
resigned
37. To be involved
immaculate
presentiment
implicate
luculent
38. Becoming rotten
putrefaction
penchant
proscribe
ambiguous
39. Adjective
epithet
defer
yarn
accolade
40. Imminent being about to happen expected
virago
impending
vindictive
animosity
41. Complex subtle refined
sophisticated
descry
distraught
frenetic
42. Spending using unwillingly
fidget
stingy
graze
crush
43. Slander
lackluster
lucubrate
aspersion
catalyst
44. Brutal racial discrimination
dexterity
apartheid
coeval
puissance
45. (adj) boorish
idiosyncrasy
recondite
apt
churlish
46. Brief and to the point
rubicund
compunction
terse
ascend
47. Trying to please; obliging
complaisant
distraught
gourmand
limp
48. Change direction
grouse
veer
soporific
perfidy
49. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
inchoate
covert
eschew
canvass
50. Distracted violently upset in mind
repel
proliferate
distraught
rebus