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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. Use until none remains
gist
deplete
reactionary
pitfall
2. Banal everyday
obstreperous
extricable
contemn
quotidian
3. Tale story fibers for knitting
yarn
spurn
efface
atonement
4. Cheerful person
torque
extrovert
perfidious
chagrin
5. Cruel killing of a large number of people
enzyme
malevolence
massacre
adulteration
6. Wander lose one's way
ramify
stray
insinuate
provoke
7. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
maladroit
gust
fustian
itinerate
8. Duty support loyalty
nonchalant
allegiance
topple
glib
9. Keep the memory of
commemorate
derivative
extort
intransigent
10. Try to win
conviction
incorrigibility
pervade
woo
11. Easily controlled or guided
untoward
gossamer
fragrant
tractable
12. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
denouement
epicurean
distrait
prune
13. Change to a thick and solid state
hauteur
coagulation
slate
penury
14. Make calmer or quieter
mollify
indistinct
encapsulate
preen
15. Person dishonestly claiming to something
stygian
quack
foray
coda
16. Hesitating undecided
sobriquet
irresolute
aseptic
abysmal
17. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
imperviousness
aversion
pinch
propagation
18. Accustomed to adapted
roll
alloy
inured
churlish
19. Nickname
bilge
incumbents
sobriquet
decree
20. Person who has given help
benefactor
suffice
timid
elicit
21. Exuberance outburst of feeling
ebullience
platitude
grovel
enmity
22. Surprise and fear dismay
nostrum
consternation
hallow
churl
23. Worsen diminish in value
sermon
impair
abdication
goad
24. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
turgid
truculence
levee
rancorous
25. Punishing
recitals
regicide
punitive
prodigal
26. Elation state of pleasant excitement
euphoria
stride
waft
dud
27. A raid a sudden attack
uncouth
countervail
barrage
incursion
28. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
ambidextrous
perch
prudence
pundit
29. Heavy with water
soggy
discourse
perilous
stipple
30. Quality of being unskillful
ineptitude
fulsome
plod
voluptuous
31. Lying on the back slow to act passive
fawn
recreancy
supine
dormant
32. Anger
gist
spear
ire
limp
33. Tightly stretched
suffocate
orison
taut
acumen
34. Number of ships quick-moving
stanch
fission
fleet
reprobate
35. Discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
bandy
accolade
lassitude
insurrection
36. FALSE counterfeit
imperturbable
vituperate
hoax
spurious
37. Too eager to obey or serve
delineate
frantic
obsequious
impede
38. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
rebus
plod
atonement
maudlin
39. Puzzling person or thing
effete
petulant
shrill
riddle
40. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
fringe
fledged
disheveled
muffler
41. Still in existence
evince
pique
extant
agile
42. Easily shocked excessively modest
coruscate
ambiguous
forbearance
prudish
43. Quick changeable in character fleeting
extinct
mercurial
subpoena
scalding
44. Weariness tiredness
subpoena
abet
divestiture
lassitude
45. Lower the quality weaken the strength
cogent
resuscitation
rancorous
vitiate
46. Request
smolder
plea
abjure
endearing
47. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
truce
plaintive
aleck
irksome
48. To shackle put in chains
rivet
affable
fetter
limp
49. Being bright polished
curriculum
lustrous
countenance
vacillation
50. Get to the root of
plumb
sanction
voluptuous
nibble