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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. Enthusiasm
glut
tamp
ardor
pry
2. Twisting force causing rotation
supercilious
prevaricate
unencumbered
torque
3. Difficult to comprehend obscure
sidestep
imperative
abstruse
dirge
4. Small boat
ponderous
inept
pernicious
skiff
5. Make payment to reward punish
relapse
ineffable
recompense
somatic
6. Bitter quarrel over a long period of time
punitive
complaisance
suborn
feud
7. Something giving strength or energy
irrevocable
tonic
ingest
knit
8. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
endeavor
ramify
temperate
apostate
9. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
eulogy
ameliorate
coy
turbid
10. Number of ships quick-moving
topple
exoneration
fleet
peccadillo
11. Obscene
reconcile
veneer
erratic
salacious
12. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
irascible
fetter
baneful
bereft
13. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
veritable
flop
sophistry
premature
14. Catch sight of see something in the distance
foppish
feral
descry
evince
15. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
penury
gust
suborn
defer
16. Existing in a wild or untamed state
indulge
weigh
feral
hew
17. Upset the self-possession of
recuperate
vindictive
preclude
disconcert
18. Taken away power (to think feel act)
viscous
petrified
vain
depredation
19. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
suborn
acumen
nonplused
sophisticated
20. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
sanctimony
viscous
infuse
reminiscent
21. Omen marvelous threatening
demagogue
portent
misogynist
plaque
22. Unlawful forbidden
collusion
impediment
compunction
illicit
23. Of great importance (others depend on it)
imperious
sanguine
coalescing
pivotal
24. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
detumescence
sever
umbrage
incongruous
25. Statement that damages reputation
argot
scorch
libel
presage
26. Describe somebody scornfully
stigmatize
premature
caustic
gullible
27. That gives warning or information
jagged
telltale
entangle
abut
28. Suffer the loss of something
forfeit
poignant
denigrate
sedulous
29. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
peccadillo
irksome
partisan
barrage
30. Move restlessly make nervous
fidget
benign
stigmatize
rejuvenation
31. A long passionate speech
truce
tamper
woo
harangue
32. Opening broken place breaking
noisome
solvent
breach
parsimonious
33. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
conciliatory
detumescence
laudatory
sanction
34. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
gullible
contrite
eradicate
preen
35. The saving of property from loss
salvage
conjoin
resilience
obviate
36. Being fully aware of
anguish
august
platitude
cognizant
37. Varied motley greatly diversified
froward
diaphanous
tout
multifarious
38. Sensitiveness
render
susceptibility
salutary
sanctimony
39. Direct opposing
prevaricate
antithetical
agog
coda
40. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
fecund
proliferate
impetuous
dissemble
41. Temporary fleeting
retard
vacillation
gouge
transient
42. Childish
puerile
jabber
flak
impending
43. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
punctilious
evasive
turgid
recast
44. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
dolt
introvert
complaisance
cordial
45. Discourage hinder
tonic
deter
peripatetic
balk
46. Frame with balls for calculating
abacus
stanch
malign
soporific
47. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
ostentation
illicit
froward
cloture
48. Hardship
plaque
gush
mendacious
privation
49. To scorn or despise
hoax
contemn
provisional
earthenware
50. Shyness
hew
lurk
adamant
diffidence