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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. Write hastily
lope
clot
scribble
drone
2. Get something inquire too curiously
pry
evince
drawl
taciturn
3. Draw together unite firmly
discomfit
odor
knit
recant
4. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
treacherous
nonplused
undermine
vacuity
5. Forgive
feud
philanthropist
condone
impetuous
6. Warmth of feelings earnestness
gush
fervor
asperity
middling
7. Learned scholarly
erudite
nebulous
prevaricate
amortize
8. Showing no emotion impassive
baleful
dainty
sordid
stolid
9. A raid a sudden attack
divergence
unfeigned
contrite
incursion
10. Lower the quality weaken the strength
cant
dote
insurrection
vitiate
11. Suppress subdue
quell
castigation
philanthropist
steeply
12. Steady regular
refractory
imperative
equable
bereft
13. Quality of being limited not extreme
impervious
extinguish
moderation
adulteration
14. To great to be described in words
savant
ineffable
pith
rabble
15. Crouch/settle without permission
squat
overhaul
desultory
shunned
16. Person who hates mankind
misanthrope
officious
fret
endearing
17. Loyalty accuracy
counterfeit
fustian
fidelity
presumption
18. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
engrossing
commemorate
disencumber
ostentation
19. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
disallow
fetter
cower
epiphany
20. Wish or activity in doing good
castigate
calipers
benevolence
temerity
21. Too eager to obey or serve
fixate
nonplused
propitious
obsequious
22. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
boggle
edacious
boisterous
ambidextrous
23. Authority written order guarantee
skiff
effete
enunciate
warrant
24. Steel tool for shaping materials
chisel
odor
diaphanous
extralegal
25. Very great number
iconoclast
dexterity
nugatory
myriad
26. Flag/badge
ensign
sophistry
sere
apostate
27. Deliberate deception
duplicity
wend
ruffian
colloquial
28. To turn away (from a habit)
wean
indigenous
woo
eulogy
29. Truth
coalescing
blatant
trickle
veracity
30. Lying on the back slow to act passive
apprehensive
gnaw
supine
squalid
31. Corrected punished
severance
soar
chastened
deprecate
32. Person who stirs up war
warmonger
salutary
glib
prune
33. Gather facts in small quantities
benison
glean
minatory
defiance
34. To beg to get by begging
combustion
cadge
dismal
austere
35. To favor or approve of
striated
discrete
countenance
inimical
36. Rising of people to open resistance to
chagrin
insurrection
vex
wend
37. Place here and there
lucubrate
labyrinthine
intersperse
simper
38. Deep-rooted. long-established
macerate
baneful
profligate
inveterate
39. Ask earnestly
entreat
sodden
counterfeit
steeply
40. Difficult to comprehend obscure
redeem
abstruse
tadpole
spurious
41. Cheerful casual carefree
esoteric
dexterity
berate
blithe
42. Draw out
bedizen
palpability
presumption
elicit
43. State of being balanced
equilibrium
snare
incise
mite
44. Food for horses and cattle
cavalcade
coerce
stingy
forage
45. Way out exit
thrift
extinguish
boorish
egress
46. Disobedient
recalcitrant
cordial
personable
shallow
47. Show feel great sorrow
pied
perish
descry
lament
48. Lying; habitually dishonest
perish
stentorian
mendacious
fragile
49. Give comfort or sympathy to
temperate
refractory
console
maul
50. Quality of being unskillful
poncho
inveigh
cordial
ineptitude