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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. Recess/partially enclosed place
incite
alcove
impending
negligent
2. Real rightly named
snare
topple
veritable
decry
3. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
calipers
malign
effete
dereliction
4. Get somebody to do something by kindness
coax
expiation
pellucid
vindictive
5. Lucky stroke
cursory
nibble
fluke
plead
6. Being uncontrolled violent
odium
denouement
vanquish
turbulence
7. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
undermine
renovate
haughty
retard
8. Arrogant pride
lampoon
caustic
stigmatize
hubris
9. Spending using unwillingly
decorum
brittle
efface
stingy
10. That gives warning or information
telltale
vehemence
preen
recalcitrant
11. Quick hurried
rescind
cursory
baleful
spurn
12. Stone used for sharpening tools
Palpable
hone
compunction
eloquence
13. Free giving generosity
paradigm
liberality
impending
hollow
14. Devious/not straightforward
tortuous
pied
Conduce
diaphanous
15. Legal trickery/false argument
aspersion
chicanery
poncho
dirge
16. Describe somebody scornfully
proclivity
stigmatize
bogus
hew
17. Lacking strength walking unevenly
chary
falter
gnaw
limp
18. Prolonged
spurn
protracted
fluke
phlegmatic
19. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
floe
plaintive
foster
roll
20. To darken make obscure muddle
ineffable
obfuscate
petrified
fidget
21. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
surcharge
morose
ostensible
gorge
22. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
hypocrisy
deposition
deprave
deter
23. Skeptical unwilling to believe
ambrosial
mite
discern
incredulous
24. Giving facts to support (statement)
savant
equipoise
substantiation
extricable
25. Lying on the back slow to act passive
supine
sketchy
edacious
homiletics
26. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
rubicund
foible
slack
veneration
27. Without use result conceited
vain
disconcert
chastisement
provisional
28. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
plunge
perilous
recreancy
palpitate
29. Show bodily or mental pain
enduring
disparate
moribund
wince
30. Too great a readiness to believe things
noisome
complaisance
credulity
accretion
31. Obscene
consume
entreat
sundry
salacious
32. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
dormant
involute
figurehead
desuetude
33. Waste away bite steadily
duplicity
ascetic
repudiate
gnaw
34. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
indulge
impiety
penchant
lithe
35. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
repulsive
phlegmatic
tenacity
truce
36. Lying; habitually dishonest
sporadic
mendacious
profane
discountenance
37. To delight or entertain to feast
acarpous
glean
endemic
regale
38. Make angry vax
mercurial
preen
redeem
provoke
39. Happening from time to time
sporadic
agglutinate
gloat
depredation
40. Dried plum silly person
picaresque
preponderance
prune
insinuate
41. Call calling of names
roll
renovate
discern
profundity
42. Wish or activity in doing good
asperity
imperious
benevolence
trickle
43. Rising or falling sharply
reproach
aspersion
rancorous
steeply
44. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
cravat
reminiscent
extralegal
contentious
45. Difficult to comprehend obscure
abstruse
lackluster
mollify
consummate
46. Line (of police acting as a guard)
transient
obtrusive
cordon
asperity
47. Yield - die
interdict
commemorate
protracted
succumb
48. Sad gloomy miserable
labyrinthine
machination
dismal
frantic
49. Of the same period coexisting
coeval
complaisant
jejune
extinct
50. Winding undulating serpentine
sinuous
apotheosis
philanthropist
opaqueness