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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. That gives warning or information
reverent
implosion
telltale
portent
2. Crawl humble oneself
ostensible
sober
grovel
heterogeneous
3. Give notice to inform
ascertain
dexterity
apprise
fidget
4. Ask earnestly
entreat
assuage
torque
bogus
5. Something that is puzzling
tangential
enigma
apprise
clientele
6. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
sundry
shallow
malapropism
moderation
7. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
multifarious
gorge
underbid
stolid
8. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
sponge
propitiatory
daunt
exculpate
9. Fluent
pyre
voluble
foray
prevaricate
10. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
nugatory
dissent
viscous
torpid
11. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
balk
disproof
slur
benevolence
12. Lukewarm
canvass
tepid
brazen
idyll
13. Get to know
cravat
mendicant
coddle
ascertain
14. Warning sign
valorous
pyre
flinch
presage
15. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
trenchant
eclat
onus
fecund
16. Aud a person of something
centurion
attune
finicky
mulct
17. Paint portray
limn
variegate
resilience
dainty
18. Propriety properness
fragrant
flaunting
abysmal
decorum
19. Star light-giving body
caustic
luminary
denigrate
gainsay
20. Free giving generosity
scalding
berate
liberality
pernicious
21. Summary or outline
synopsis
precursory
nibble
unscathed
22. To shackle put in chains
coerce
insinuate
fetter
punitive
23. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
unencumbered
coagulation
attune
sagacious
24. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
connoisseur
gainsay
burgeon
regicide
25. Impress deeply
engrave
extempore
tyro
indulge
26. Treat with care and tenderness
coddle
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
bogus
facile
27. Worked out with much care in great detail
cogitate
forbearance
elaborate
coeval
28. Become strong after illness loss exhaustion
propitious
hoi
recuperate
enmity
29. Tiresome
decry
deter
indigence
irksome
30. Gibe make fun of
putrefaction
jibe
expedient
castigate
31. Fix firmly by repetition
foil
inculcate
brittle
blatant
32. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
mince
nibble
vitiate
superfluous
33. Constant
libel
incessant
stipulate
raffish
34. FALSE counterfeit
foray
spurious
forswear
wean
35. Large pile of wood for burning
cumbersome
pyre
cornucopia
apropos
36. Exuberance outburst of feeling
mendacity
bogus
ebullience
equable
37. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
multifarious
exploit
stymie
paean
38. Pompous self important
consequential
swerve
labyrinthine
taciturn
39. Something urging a person to action
turbid
shun
goad
gainsay
40. Write one's name on the back of
endorse
concur
ponderous
inimical
41. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
presentiment
turmoil
slate
inasmuch
42. Legal trickery/false argument
divergence
impediment
perpetrate
chicanery
43. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
loll
abjure
punitive
picaresque
44. Unresisting submissive
demagogue
submerge
cogitate
resigned
45. To chastise correct by punishing
castigate
suffice
equivocal
ensign
46. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
epiphany
glean
gist
derision
47. Red and healthy
rubicund
abacus
equable
disseminate
48. Upset the self-possession of
ubiquitous
boorish
disconcert
complaisance
49. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
woo
taut
impiety
nexus
50. Belong as a part have reference
spear
tarnished
pertain
distraught