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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
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. Make tight or smaller
constrict
hospitable
resuscitation
dwarf
2. Taken away power (to think feel act)
feint
penurious
equipoise
petrified
3. Hardship
consequential
foil
flak
privation
4. Positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
punitive
intersperse
dogmatic
waft
5. Threatening
consequential
vindictive
machination
ominous
6. Person who tells anecdotes
affable
complaisant
raconteur
timorous
7. Large piece of cloth
insinuate
recitals
poncho
suffocate
8. Cautious wary
ford
chary
shallow
morbid
9. Not normal or usual
solvent
preternatural
derision
underbid
10. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
cornucopia
ale
barren
inveigh
11. Deification glorification to godliness
chastened
nadir
apotheosis
stolid
12. Having plenty of space for what is needed
cryptic
commodious
contiguous
acumen
13. Blacken belittle sully defame
blatant
denigrate
scorch
euthanasia
14. Obvious
asperity
suffice
shun
Palpable
15. Speak distinctly connect by joints
ingest
espouse
articulate
chagrin
16. Dig up from the earth
disinter
buoyant
incessant
alloy
17. Physical of or for the body
profuse
teetotal
corporeal
incongruous
18. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
salvage
privation
shunt
petrous
19. Producing sleep
soporific
graze
egress
sanctimony
20. Unimportant
unearth
trifling
insouciant
venal
21. Compel to force to make obedient
coerce
strive
tadpole
aversion
22. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
stygian
dud
rabble
snub
23. A complex ornate design
fecund
forswear
arabesque
slate
24. Showing self-control
demagogue
defer
equivocal
temperate
25. Person much smaller the usual size
dwarf
vituperate
prodigal
macerate
26. Gibe make fun of
immaculate
jibe
reminiscent
conviction
27. Causing grief or pain serious dire grave
insouciant
indulgent
gnaw
grievous
28. Meticulous
punctilious
inclined
perfidious
encomium
29. Substance that causes speeding up
abysmal
catalyst
lavish
recreancy
30. Keeping on putting off
procrastination
waft
vain
tamp
31. Make (pain) easier to bear
philistine
discourse
alleviate
narcissism
32. Try to deceive by equivocal language
equivocate
ferret
prone
incessant
33. Depth
apprehensive
profundity
finical
deter
34. Quality of being limited not extreme
eradicate
suppress
eschew
moderation
35. Treachery breaking of faith
aloof
reminiscent
covert
perfidy
36. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
correlate
travesty
impiety
37. Gather facts in small quantities
penurious
glean
collusion
dilate
38. Too eager to obey or serve
subsume
obsequious
snub
clamor
39. Not pretended sincere
deprave
tautology
unfeigned
pitfall
40. Hide keep secret
conceal
recast
supercilious
aseptic
41. To cause to adhere - as with glue
premature
gnaw
implacable
agglutinate
42. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
agog
hirsute
qualm
placate
43. Adjective
epithet
inimitable
sodden
illicit
44. Person who is slow waste of time
splice
glib
dawdler
apotheosis
45. Hairy shaggy
tractable
bilge
haughty
hirsute
46. Rebel nonconformist
extant
complaisance
maverick
facetious
47. Done as a duty without care
nadir
beguile
indistinct
perfunctory
48. Lose courage turn frightened
taut
quail
abstruse
fervor
49. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
mesmerize
fecund
saturnine
denouement
50. Call calling of names
jibe
partisan
tenuous
roll