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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. Bending twisting
discountenance
indefatigability
lithe
profundity
2. Pure
chaste
erudite
rubicund
tarnished
3. Praise approval
attune
indulgent
accolade
resilience
4. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
turbid
extol
refine
churl
5. Needing effort burdensome
skit
tonic
portent
onerous
6. Warning sign
streak
ale
suppress
presage
7. Foul filthy
squalid
fleet
itinerate
illicit
8. Commanding haughty arrogant
imperious
supplicate
permeate
mesmerize
9. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
foppish
entice
precursors
offhand
10. Take the whole attention - enslave
enthral
encapsulate
obtain
stentorian
11. Mix combine unite societies
gloat
refine
amalgamate
broach
12. Leather case for a pistol
holster
floe
dynamo
conjoin
13. Wickedness shamefulness
turpitude
inclined
forestall
censure
14. Call up bring out
expedient
coalescing
pith
evoke
15. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
harbinger
retard
discountenance
discrete
16. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
introspection
pied
fixate
canvass
17. Not easily discouraged or subdued
diaphanous
hoax
duress
indomitable
18. Skeptical unwilling to believe
impecunious
incredulous
bigot
impede
19. Make or become soft by soaking in water
machination
fulmination
macerate
irascible
20. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
verve
teetotal
heterogeneous
repel
21. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
pry
loll
thrift
coruscate
22. Kind of stone inflexible
abscond
adamant
loll
defiance
23. Wander lose one's way
desultory
incredulous
stray
convoke
24. Scold sharply
berate
hollow
coruscate
maverick
25. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
burnish
fecund
drone
torpid
26. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
levity
profligate
egress
bedizen
27. Opening broken place breaking
mettlesome
breach
dawdler
edacious
28. An outcast a rejected and despised person
pariah
fulsome
pernicious
perpetrate
29. Commonplace trite unremarkable
moderation
irate
perpetrate
pedestrian
30. Loyalty accuracy
acclaimed
bereft
patron
fidelity
31. Make angry
insensible
disrobe
incense
odium
32. Extreme astounding
indigence
diffidence
sublime
equilibrium
33. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
vivacious
correlate
recreancy
consummate
34. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
pious
permeate
arabesque
35. Eagerly desirous
pivotal
retrograde
permeate
covetous
36. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
pique
indulge
fidget
lumber
37. Worthless outside part of anything
coda
husk
coagulation
stanch
38. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
intransigence
coax
tonic
peremptory
39. Punishing
invective
bewilder
abut
punitive
40. Act of preaching
moderation
homiletics
cajole
rivet
41. Mob crowd the lower classes of populace
lampoon
entangle
floe
rabble
42. Not having interest
nonchalant
surcharge
moderation
fret
43. Calm not capable of being excited
loll
imperturbable
petrify
forbear
44. Call together summon
tamper
muffler
timid
convoke
45. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
repel
erudite
censure
shunned
46. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
dearth
cravat
philanthropist
gossamer
47. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
woo
rebus
rescind
concord
48. Publicly mock or ridicule
palliate
predominate
jabber
lampoon
49. Well-suited; quick-witted
delineate
apt
presumption
vituperate
50. Showing no emotion impassive
mollify
discourse
stolid
limp