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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
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. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
malevolence
pugnacious
calipers
pariah
2. Without preparation
shunt
gregarious
impromptu
odor
3. Strong energetic
vigorous
auspicious
dawdler
upbraid
4. Various miscellaneous separate
predilection
dolt
irrevocable
sundry
5. Appropriate to the situation apt
snare
assail
apropos
detraction
6. Abundant supply
pusillanimous
cornucopia
disproof
elicit
7. Crime of killing a king
adorn
somersault
regicide
myriad
8. Stare at
fixate
dawdler
forbearance
forage
9. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
esoteric
indomitable
intransigence
obviate
10. Collapse bursting inward
deviance
elaborate
sadastic
implosion
11. To cut out cut away
exscind
prim
ebullient
platitude
12. Prevent make impossible
preclude
sermon
discomfit
abjure
13. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
imminent
insensible
precursors
sullied
14. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
obtrusive
jabber
contumacious
alcove
15. Easy and painless death
wile
euthanasia
resuscitation
credulous
16. Border on
occluded
palatial
abut
loll
17. Waste away through sorrow or illness
complaisance
blase
pine
supine
18. To turn away (from a habit)
matriculation
luculent
unencumbered
wean
19. Celebrated famous
derogatory
renowned
vanquish
interim
20. Make calmer or quieter
retard
mendacity
highbrow
mollify
21. Warmth of feelings earnestness
splice
fervor
phlegmatic
quaff
22. To beg to get by begging
cadge
elegy
pellucid
turbulence
23. Practicing self-denial austere stark
irate
succumb
ascetic
cavalcade
24. Noisy loud
obstreperous
propinquity
vindictive
coerce
25. Use extravagant language
rant
hack
bogus
tepid
26. Be admitted enter a university as a student
cower
exscind
matriculation
imperative
27. Of the power of forming a solution
solvent
flamboyant
veritable
calisthenics
28. As an installment
interim
feint
gust
suppliant
29. Keep away from avoid
stentorian
bogus
forge
shun
30. Briefly without delay
summarily
gossamer
alleviate
recreancy
31. Inclination
intransigent
proclivity
fagged
vacuity
32. Quality of being unskillful
severance
aleck
ineptitude
pellucid
33. To go proceed
baneful
wend
dawdler
hapless
34. Make angry vax
highbrow
grovel
provoke
harrow
35. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
fission
sequence
stipple
floe
36. Causing tears tearful
gourmand
balk
lachrymose
deprave
37. A quack remedy an untested cure
savant
slack
nostrum
appease
38. Strength
ruffian
warmonger
panegyric
puissance
39. Deceit cunning
guile
importune
perspicacity
limp
40. Try to win
impecunious
woo
quaff
felon
41. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
sundry
erratic
verdant
42. Ridicule mockery deriding
vituperate
qualm
derision
hapless
43. Person dishonestly claiming to something
overweening
pluck
quack
erratic
44. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
sagacious
concur
engulf
mettle
45. Giving up control authority
abdication
forswear
plethora
colloquial
46. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
shrill
epitome
disingenuous
reprobate
47. Based on error
vilify
fallacious
volatile
indulgent
48. Outside the law
broach
profundity
harbinger
extralegal
49. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
tortuous
nexus
tawdry
exorbitant
50. Aggressiveness ferocity
truculence
infuriate
sheath
resuscitation