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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. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
indolence
repast
penchant
impetuous
2. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
suppliant
connote
peregrination
officious
3. Having a toothed edge
ossify
serrated
fission
cogitate
4. Ridicule mockery deriding
derision
repast
sawdust
lucubrate
5. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
castigate
repel
enzyme
benign
6. Bombastic
tonic
wile
fustian
dud
7. Instruct; correct morally
derision
edify
salutary
indigenous
8. Crawl humble oneself
timorous
nadir
grovel
indolence
9. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
overweening
cumbersome
tenuous
fret
10. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
barren
foray
warmonger
plummet
11. Try to win
woo
connotation
malign
ruddy
12. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
sobriquet
effluvia
prevaricate
drone
13. Flood cover by overflowing
eloquence
inundate
platitude
fret
14. Uncompromising
verdant
euthanasia
specious
intransigent
15. State of being passive/motionless
undermine
quiescence
hubris
connoisseur
16. Noisy loud
obstreperous
wile
plea
grandiloquent
17. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
amalgamate
clientele
puissance
impiety
18. Make beautiful
predominate
agog
hoi
embellish
19. Greenish-blue precious stone
discourse
turquoise
vigilant
inimical
20. (of eyes) dull
apt
perpetrate
encomium
lackluster
21. Inclined to indulge
collusion
prolix
morose
indulgent
22. Frame with balls for calculating
tout
vitiate
abacus
placate
23. Coming into existence emerging
irascible
stickler
transgress
nascent
24. Anger
treacherous
ire
countenance
insularity
25. Person who attacks popular beliefs
auspicious
iconoclast
lampoon
dupe
26. Come to grips/settle conclusively
clinch
reconcile
stipulate
poignant
27. Angry
evince
cordon
coalescing
irate
28. To take in marriage
empirical
espouse
foppish
accrue
29. A blindly devoted patriot
apostate
evasive
accrue
chauvinist
30. Person guilty of murder
umbrage
felon
satiate
desultory
31. Long thin move very fast
plunge
writ
streak
consume
32. Tiresome
rebuff
irksome
proclivity
ebullience
33. A raid a sudden attack
corroboration
incursion
indigence
ambivalent
34. Attention/give notice to
disseminate
heed
paradigm
abstruse
35. To show clearly to indicate
spurn
substantiation
evince
discrete
36. Careful/prudent
discreet
proclivity
sluggard
sting
37. To scorn or despise
canvass
amortize
contemn
perfidy
38. With attack violently
console
serrated
fluster
assail
39. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
imperturbable
malleable
plea
coda
40. Not having interest
nonchalant
forgery
dereliction
beguile
41. Approval (by authority) penalty
glut
paean
mendicant
sanction
42. Cowardly
inquest
miser
craven
proclivity
43. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
corroboration
egress
placate
sophomoric
44. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
voluble
overweening
dereliction
brazen
45. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
welter
woo
abdication
predilection
46. Witness/evidence
petrify
testiness
insinuate
pugnacious
47. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
ale
incumbents
salutary
enthral
48. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
stentorian
craven
proliferate
corporeal
49. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
timid
coerce
parsimonious
indistinct
50. Since because
disingenuous
inasmuch
rescind
prudence