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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
epistle
austere
correlate
enzyme
2. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
provisional
yeoman
insurrection
waft
3. To scorn or despise
contemn
malevolence
lucubrate
immutable
4. A repetition a redundancy
libertine
tautology
chisel
streak
5. Fearful timid afraid
sundry
timorous
purvey
cantankerous
6. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
recidivism
turquoise
matriculation
skiff
7. Easily shocked excessively modest
convoluted
fringe
prudish
harangue
8. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
welter
shun
exorbitant
serration
9. Not new
trite
reverent
secular
dainty
10. Well-suited; quick-witted
stolid
atonement
premature
apt
11. Speak distinctly connect by joints
complaisance
tepid
benison
articulate
12. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
ossify
calumny
morbid
stanch
13. Make unfair selection from facts
fission
vitiate
obfuscate
garble
14. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
flak
doleful
petulant
allegiance
15. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
taunt
ebullient
aloof
effete
16. Likely to be useful for a purpose
pied
gossamer
expedient
cavalcade
17. Attention/give notice to
finesse
counterfeit
gorge
heed
18. To make holy consecrate
hallow
rubicund
tangential
barren
19. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
condone
brook
retard
beatify
20. Urgent essential
ruffian
equable
extricable
imperative
21. Punishing
divergence
extirpate
punitive
ascetic
22. Large piece of cloth
decry
poncho
cravat
plunge
23. Say or do again several times
reiterate
evince
paean
apt
24. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
substantiation
temperance
jocular
encapsulate
25. Unresisting submissive
sobriety
venal
resigned
insensible
26. Improve make better
exuberance
introspection
fustian
ameliorate
27. Trap
transient
flamboyant
snare
exuberance
28. Fix take up secure metal pin
centurion
rivet
punctilious
indefatigability
29. That can be freed
discomfit
livid
extricable
dubious
30. Celebrated famous
renowned
extralegal
coruscate
noxious
31. Postpone
aloof
abide
defer
gloat
32. Cheerful casual carefree
entice
matriculation
lien
blithe
33. Immoral person
rife
didactic
condense
libertine
34. An inexperienced person.
attenuate
fledgling
pliant
preponderance
35. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
eclat
dogmatic
shun
impassive
36. Make tight or smaller
soggy
intransigence
morbid
constrict
37. Burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
bogus
foment
curtail
cumbersome
38. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
lustrous
abeyance
balk
ambidextrous
39. Oppose to alcohol
engender
teetotal
tenacity
pine
40. Affirm something to be true
tautology
feud
ferment
aver
41. Pretend
minatory
feint
espouse
preclude
42. To take in marriage
privation
espouse
feud
curriculum
43. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
spurious
prosaic
propitiatory
doggerel
44. To be stained or discredited
repudiate
rueful
noxious
sullied
45. In enjoy warmth and light
bask
tenacity
dirge
highbrow
46. Beat hard
belabor
mendacity
boggle
partisan
47. State of being balanced
beatify
turmoil
odor
equilibrium
48. Blessing
fawn
acarpous
benison
stanch
49. Distribute (esp. ideas)
effete
disseminate
cavalcade
sadastic
50. Trace or sign
vestige
jibe
compunction
jejune