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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. Based on error
impede
audacious
indolence
fallacious
2. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
brazen
paucity
serration
3. Odious (of crime)
decree
desiccant
heinous
thrift
4. Wickedness shamefulness
vacuity
impecunious
turpitude
obtain
5. Use until none remains
blase
saturnine
deplete
squander
6. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
panegyric
maladroit
contrite
cavalcade
7. Easily controlled or guided
ail
crass
tractable
forbearance
8. Harmful or unfriendly
ferret
inimical
lurk
encapsulate
9. Brutal racial discrimination
nexus
inane
ebullience
apartheid
10. To lessen to subside
falter
abate
deferential
stigma
11. Humorous funny jocular
philanthropist
descry
facetious
engulf
12. Banal everyday
vacuity
attenuate
convoluted
quotidian
13. Strong convincing
rejuvenation
compunction
blandishment
cogent
14. Ready to do something dishonest
veneer
puerile
tadpole
venal
15. Grow forth send out buds
burgeon
contrite
fledgling
dainty
16. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
vituperate
recitals
obloquy
baleful
17. Witness/evidence
spurn
testiness
accrue
veritable
18. Blacken belittle sully defame
stipulate
gallant
denigrate
penchant
19. Having a desire to revenge
treacherous
eschew
vindictive
cabal
20. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
dainty
prevaricate
imperviousness
reiterate
21. Official duties
perfidious
matriculation
incumbents
garble
22. Unresisting submissive
resigned
brittle
hermetic
serrated
23. Brave -behaves well with women
appease
gallant
brass
invincible
24. Bitter protest
punitive
fulmination
blatant
foment
25. Situated beyond
abide
implicate
ossify
ulterior
26. Health of mind soundness of judgment
ambidextrous
reactionary
probity
sanity
27. Showing self-control
temperate
mince
liberality
aversion
28. Write hastily
stanch
tout
scribble
splice
29. Restore something to better condition
profligate
hermetic
blatant
renovate
30. Angry
contumacious
irate
raffish
sanctimony
31. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
assuage
dangle
indistinct
quotidian
32. Enthusiasm
ardor
liberality
quibble
slake
33. Be destroyed decay
astute
effluvia
impute
perish
34. Lacking strength walking unevenly
arabesque
limp
predilection
sluggard
35. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
contemn
prolix
enigma
disingenuous
36. Worthless outside part of anything
resigned
profundity
temperate
husk
37. Beat hard
euthanasia
phlegmatic
blithe
belabor
38. Inclination
denouement
proclivity
crass
impede
39. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
sheath
pedestrian
satiate
pucker
40. Receding
sodden
obtrusive
retrograde
incorrigibility
41. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
malleable
vindictive
coagulation
slur
42. Eagerly desirous
sever
covetous
apt
wince
43. Complicated and embarrassing situation
pillage
gauche
mulct
imbroglio
44. To deny to oppose
ambrosial
gainsay
exculpate
efface
45. Member of a vigilance committee
vigilant
nugatory
precursors
inept
46. Make (pain) easier to bear
alleviate
recast
coax
petrify
47. Oppose to alcohol
trepidation
interim
teetotal
retrospective
48. Obsequious flatterer
fracas
repine
extricable
toady
49. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
haughty
verdant
undermine
mollify
50. Forcefulness
plummet
indelible
tortuous
vehemence