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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. To entangle the state of affairs
labyrinthine
skiff
volatile
timid
2. Coming back to consciousness
evasive
resuscitation
servile
refine
3. Curse abuse in words
ambrosial
simper
variegate
vituperate
4. An outcast a rejected and despised person
repulsive
pariah
oblivious
petrify
5. A piece of broken pottery
entice
reticence
shard
refractory
6. Stupid fellow
dolt
clamor
recidivism
taciturn
7. Rebel nonconformist
corporeal
taunt
maverick
precarious
8. Shout complain with a lot of noise
clamor
agog
foil
odor
9. Representing the whole Christian world
proclivity
ecumenical
allegiance
commemorate
10. Involving clever rogues or adventurers
picaresque
animosity
arabesque
felon
11. Suppress subdue
flout
quell
mollify
suppress
12. A trick
ambrosial
rescind
wile
steeply
13. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
vain
brook
pedestrian
14. More then is needed or wanted
dainty
superfluous
cantankerous
eulogy
15. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
slur
covert
mollify
pervade
16. Cowardly
craven
stickler
feint
cornucopia
17. Boldness brashness intrepidness
ascetic
tepid
temerity
petrified
18. Show bodily or mental pain
facile
ineffable
wince
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
19. Cast or fashion anew
scabbard
philanthropist
recast
palpitate
20. State of doubt or perplexity
sever
castigation
quandary
clot
21. Forgery
lustrous
counterfeit
disconcert
orison
22. Threats to compel somebody
collusion
duress
cornucopia
expostulate
23. Becoming young in nature or appearance
manacle
amalgamate
tawdry
rejuvenation
24. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
brash
nonplused
waft
deferential
25. Fairly good but not very good
rebus
avid
somatic
middling
26. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
equable
sever
imprecation
inept
27. To great to be described in words
ineffable
skiff
desuetude
vituperate
28. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
propitiatory
interim
barren
sanctimony
29. Pompous self important
consequential
toady
bogus
pluck
30. Greedy (esp for money)
divulge
peccadillo
rejuvenation
rapacious
31. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
neophyte
judicious
disencumber
impervious
32. FALSE counterfeit
tawdry
delineate
defer
spurious
33. To speak harmful untruths about someone
redeem
vivacious
malign
impiety
34. Calmness of temperament
sequence
redoubtable
equanimity
incessant
35. Immoral person
prolix
steeply
valiant
libertine
36. Responsilibilty -burden
germane
onus
plaintive
irascible
37. Truth
resigned
abet
coy
veracity
38. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
crush
personable
prosaic
fragile
39. Waver/move in an uncertain manner
underbid
inept
prudence
falter
40. Shining brilliant
precursors
bilge
sequence
refulgent
41. Insubstantial/dull/immature
delineate
quotidian
jejune
disheveled
42. Give greatly needed support
bolster
introvert
broach
contrite
43. Violent cruel man
fulmination
ruffian
craven
malinger
44. Rubbed off worn away by friction
glib
multifarious
abraded
mollify
45. Of the power of forming a solution
solvent
gush
ominous
misanthrope
46. Shortly - roughly - quickly
preclude
sketchy
breach
limn
47. Learned scholarly
quixotic
fervor
phlegmatic
erudite
48. A complex ornate design
arabesque
perilous
credulity
auspicious
49. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
disproof
contrite
pellucid
anguish
50. Directing the mind in a certain direction
inclined
valiant
fervid
enzyme