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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. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
adamant
discern
inveigh
spurn
2. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
sententious
itinerate
provoke
valorous
3. Steel tool for shaping materials
pious
belligerent
extol
chisel
4. As an installment
voluble
interim
narcissism
extort
5. Lukewarm
benevolence
detumescence
indigence
tepid
6. Heavy with water
soggy
prune
hirsute
ambiguous
7. Lacking solidarity - strength
orison
flimsy
permeate
epicurean
8. Merry person
parenthesis
wag
lull
reverent
9. Ridicule mockery deriding
squalid
derision
cadge
enmity
10. Meticulous
boggle
flout
punctilious
pusillanimous
11. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
boorish
shun
harbinger
ascend
12. Getting farther apart from a point
flak
poncho
divergence
preponderance
13. Burn slowly without flame
smolder
sententious
prune
congeal
14. To assuage to satisfy allay
halcyon
slake
saturnine
agglutinate
15. That gives warning or information
propinquity
heresy
telltale
contemn
16. Drink deeply
quaff
coddle
implicit
peremptory
17. Wrinkle
pucker
epitome
puerile
presage
18. Tale story fibers for knitting
acumen
yarn
welter
doleful
19. Plundering
contiguous
depredation
ferocity
inept
20. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
ingest
amortize
coruscate
submerge
21. Sparkle
coruscate
discountenance
lavish
plaintive
22. Of great importance (others depend on it)
warrant
evoke
substantiation
pivotal
23. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
petrified
temperate
slate
testiness
24. Surprise and fear dismay
calisthenics
insurrection
consternation
pine
25. Depth
antithetical
renowned
ambiguous
profundity
26. Arrogant conceited
decry
umbrage
appease
haughty
27. Trying to please; obliging
consternation
trudge
phlegmatic
complaisant
28. Pedant authority on a subject
idyll
endearing
dismal
pundit
29. Situated beyond
ulterior
shrewd
abjure
eloquence
30. (adj) boorish
frugal
eulogy
churlish
penurious
31. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
counterfeit
libel
apostate
gust
32. Defying imitation unmatchable
inveterate
parenthesis
myriad
inimitable
33. Cautious wary
chary
recitals
trickle
shrill
34. Strange act or idea
ruddy
vagary
curriculum
florid
35. Varied motley greatly diversified
reticence
multifarious
eddy
calisthenics
36. Tiny bits of wood
offhand
sawdust
palpability
serration
37. Insulting tending to damage
obtuse
trepidation
derogatory
cavalcade
38. Noisy and rough
corroboration
bolster
apartheid
blatant
39. Having little or no money
truculence
mettlesome
presage
impecunious
40. Haughty arrogant commanding
vex
succumb
imperviousness
thrift
41. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
broach
molt
consternation
taut
42. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
holster
hollow
erratic
yeoman
43. Be unsteady and overturn
mettlesome
topple
avid
bolster
44. Threats to compel somebody
stray
entangle
colloquial
duress
45. Border on
inculcate
piquant
abut
imprecation
46. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
eschew
trenchant
spurn
truculence
47. Make quiet or calm
appease
turpitude
vacillation
loll
48. Diligent hard-working sedulous
sever
assiduous
trudge
reprobate
49. Make or become soft by soaking in water
mettlesome
frantic
macerate
parsimonious
50. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
incongruous
chisel
gainsay
plod