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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. A repetition a redundancy
stolid
tautology
serration
temperance
2. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
ponderous
inveigh
jocular
spurn
3. Scold reproach
epicurean
upbraid
inept
recidivism
4. That cannot be permeated
arrogance
trudge
taunt
impermeable
5. Brief
epistle
turmoil
transitory
penury
6. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
sawdust
fervid
presumption
muffler
7. Careful forethought
prudence
sawdust
belligerent
narcissism
8. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
cower
trencherman
sagacious
foible
9. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
interdict
surfeit
reminiscent
curmudgeon
10. Unspoken - silent
toady
stymie
plod
taciturn
11. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
palpitate
dilate
baneful
verdant
12. Uncompromising
muffler
coruscate
whimsical
intransigent
13. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
impair
perfunctory
blithe
officious
14. Too eager to obey or serve
splenetic
obsequious
suppress
luculent
15. A beggar
embellish
coeval
quell
mendicant
16. Sweetly flowing
mellifluous
rebuff
arrant
sobriquet
17. Trap
snare
complaisance
salvage
supplicate
18. Show off complacently
flaunting
pucker
gregarious
incorrigibility
19. Easily broken
brittle
massacre
refractory
crass
20. Obscene
onus
salacious
crush
perilous
21. The saving of property from loss
benison
salvage
palpability
oblivious
22. Bad-tempered irritable
inimical
temerity
acumen
splenetic
23. Glut
highbrow
stygian
distraught
plethora
24. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
probity
deviance
obfuscate
burgeon
25. Give greatly needed support
bolster
hubris
hoodwink
hospitable
26. Careful/prudent
vigorous
discreet
unfeigned
repast
27. Insincere talk/jargon
ostentation
cant
Conduce
prodigal
28. Favorable successful prosperous
moderation
auspicious
inveterate
recreancy
29. Lessen the severity of
palliate
rant
extinct
indigenous
30. Chains for the hands or feet
enunciate
credulity
manacle
corporeal
31. (of eyes) dull
forfeit
indigenous
welter
lackluster
32. Change direction suddenly
malapropism
decree
swerve
effluvia
33. Satisfy fully
brass
plethora
satiate
defer
34. Brief summary representative example a typical model
pry
arabesque
epitome
lumber
35. Too strong to be defeated
minatory
crush
quell
invincible
36. Statement that damages reputation
libel
lien
narcissism
strive
37. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
luminary
sophomoric
aberration
transient
38. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
apartheid
profundity
submerge
austere
39. Immoral person
gossamer
feckless
provisional
libertine
40. That gives warning or information
abet
telltale
rave
reiterate
41. Too great a readiness to believe things
foment
entreat
credulity
turquoise
42. Black powder in smoke
extralegal
soot
impugned
ambivalent
43. Appearing TRUE or real
coagulation
verisimilitude
teetotal
exhaustive
44. See with an effort but clearly
ferret
console
maverick
discern
45. Change to a thick and solid state
empirical
rebuff
coagulation
complaisance
46. A carefree episode or experience
hubris
counterfeit
idyll
minatory
47. Cruel
sadastic
attenuate
plumb
incumbents
48. Opposing progress
incite
reactionary
waffle
bewilder
49. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
heed
parley
conviction
flak
50. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
shunt
proliferate
implosion
cajole