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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Extreme poverty
inimitable
penury
bequest
plead
2. Commonplace trite unremarkable
pedestrian
arrogance
epithet
intransigent
3. Check hinder
cogent
retard
profligate
abacus
4. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
consequential
fatuous
gainsay
chauvinist
5. Poverty
efficacy
rumple
indigence
torment
6. A loud domineering woman a scold or nag
paucity
intransigent
dormant
virago
7. Wrinkle
pucker
implacable
meticulous
immaculate
8. Something sharp
petrified
sting
shard
stolid
9. Scarcity a lacking of
exoneration
paucity
lurk
console
10. Weariness tiredness
engulf
repudiate
lassitude
abide
11. Socially awkward tactless behavior
deplete
sporadic
subdue
gaucherie
12. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
parsimonious
perfidy
indelible
debacle
13. Provide supply
purvey
implicate
divulge
evince
14. Of connected with trees
arboreal
vacillation
resigned
disingenuous
15. Affirm something to be true
impromptu
overweening
drowsiness
aver
16. Suffer the loss of something
amortize
alacrity
pied
forfeit
17. Furiously angry - enraged
antithetical
austere
droll
livid
18. Loyalty accuracy
censure
fidelity
ascertain
servile
19. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
caustic
boisterous
imperative
garble
20. Rough awkward
uncouth
allegiance
endemic
brash
21. Dig up from the earth
lavish
desultory
disinter
quiescence
22. Fall back again
quail
relapse
inveigh
prosaic
23. Tending to evade
malleable
countenance
evasive
paucity
24. More then is needed or wanted
superfluous
nascent
avid
insouciant
25. Delicate way of dealing with a situation
nonchalant
pitfall
finesse
lucubrate
26. Give greatly needed support
censure
tyro
bolster
expostulate
27. Song of praise or triumph
sporadic
ponderous
paean
expostulate
28. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
officious
impromptu
quixotic
29. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
temperance
irksome
glut
perfunctory
30. Make shorter then was planned
imperturbable
extol
ameliorate
curtail
31. Celebrated famous
iconoclast
renowned
enzyme
accrue
32. Lacking strength walking unevenly
impending
pernicious
truculence
limp
33. Obsequious flatterer
precarious
voluble
toady
obdurate
34. Polite and friendly
slur
ferret
affable
scabbard
35. Easily injured broken or destroyed
descry
insouciant
fragile
foible
36. Show off complacently
flaunting
candid
ignominious
panegyric
37. Hence - awkward
gauche
encomium
fission
aplomb
38. Annoy distress trouble
vex
disencumber
turgid
affable
39. Interfere with
tamper
forestall
knit
gust
40. Transparent easy to understand
surcharge
maverick
pellucid
expatiate
41. Aggressiveness ferocity
truculence
stingy
contemn
eradicate
42. Haughtiness
onerous
coerce
impiety
hauteur
43. Wickedness shamefulness
provisional
quibble
vivacious
turpitude
44. Quality of being unskillful
ineptitude
ruffian
topple
probity
45. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
deprecate
slake
crease
rejuvenation
46. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
breach
canvass
harbinger
quiescence
47. Ready to do something dishonest
impromptu
scent
wince
venal
48. One who loves mankind
infuse
disdain
philanthropist
fawn
49. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
grovel
reverent
tenacity
palpitate
50. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
rarefy
shrill
vitiate
pedantic