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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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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1. Menacing threatening
minatory
fidelity
extant
plaintive
2. Put into difficulties
beguile
perch
valiant
entangle
3. Fix firmly by repetition
inculcate
punctilious
euthanasia
obtain
4. An inexperienced person.
forbearance
fledgling
synopsis
ecumenical
5. Lowest weakest point
vacuity
enunciate
profane
nadir
6. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
yeoman
introspection
gullible
refine
7. Exercises to develop strong bodies
calisthenics
fringe
evince
animosity
8. Outside the law
soggy
inured
extralegal
repast
9. Scarcity a lacking of
impetuous
nexus
pugnacious
paucity
10. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
dissemble
incense
spurious
supplicate
11. Be admitted enter a university as a student
stymie
esoteric
garrulous
matriculation
12. Accumulate
ulterior
coruscate
warmonger
accrue
13. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
reiterate
coy
proliferate
myriad
14. Worry irritation wear away
burgeon
heed
fret
disingenuous
15. Be enough
extinct
sordid
suffice
condone
16. Severe suffering
anguish
elaborate
decry
strive
17. Of great importance (others depend on it)
austere
palpitate
pivotal
boggle
18. Perfect/make perfect/complete
consummate
attune
facile
poignant
19. Sentence within another one something separated
emote
parenthesis
pertain
prolix
20. Forgive
condone
underbid
eddy
taciturn
21. Warmth of feelings earnestness
fervor
ensign
impassive
incredulous
22. Supply to much fill to excess
glut
sophisticated
riddle
arrogance
23. Scold reproach
pusillanimous
detumescence
upbraid
sketchy
24. Mean contemptible
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
scurvy
distrait
infuriate
25. Call together summon
pervade
convoke
egress
ponderous
26. Arrogance
vestige
presumption
sober
soggy
27. Noisy quarrel
intransigence
fracas
meretricious
transient
28. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
ford
attune
finicky
infuriate
29. Make payment to reward punish
recompense
feckless
unfeigned
forestall
30. Tale story fibers for knitting
infuriate
yarn
reactionary
profligate
31. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
provident
lumber
rapacious
proscribe
32. Great brilliance - as of performance or achievement
eclat
abraded
solvent
attune
33. Dishonesty
bolster
gust
mendacity
incursion
34. Smell (especially pleasant)
dissemble
scent
fawn
plaque
35. Foul filthy
ruffian
squalid
soar
serration
36. That cannot be rubbed out
indelible
puissance
beguile
gullible
37. Waste away through sorrow or illness
colloquial
pine
pucker
veer
38. Blacken belittle sully defame
brash
denigrate
stentorian
pyre
39. Ready to do something dishonest
recuperate
alloy
venal
gush
40. Cruel
equanimity
extenuate
sadastic
finicky
41. Break go beyond (a limit)
transgress
garble
pivotal
benign
42. Argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
contentious
amortize
stigmatize
malign
43. (of eyes) dull
inferno
livid
lackluster
verisimilitude
44. Quick changeable in character fleeting
mercurial
convoluted
dormant
plaintive
45. Artificial obstacle built across a river
ambidextrous
dormant
barrage
balk
46. Uncertain risky dangerous
quail
fagged
coerce
precarious
47. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
phlegmatic
retrospective
incredulous
prosaic
48. A scheme or plot a group of plotters
myriad
pluck
rave
cabal
49. Taken away power (to think feel act)
petrified
occluded
reiterate
taunt
50. Cut roughly hired horse
hack
trifling
aseptic
tadpole