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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Rich and deep plump and round
infuse
rotund
penchant
mollify
2. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
equivocal
incense
foible
Palpable
3. Transparent gauzy
gainsay
ferocity
diaphanous
turpitude
4. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
debacle
dismal
evoke
labyrinthine
5. Showing no emotion impassive
brook
ebullience
stolid
avid
6. Stir up excite
bigot
emote
trite
liberality
7. Make tight or smaller
efface
constrict
forestall
engrave
8. Deliver provide represent
fervor
hoax
lavish
render
9. Shameless immorality
detumescence
profligacy
sawdust
taunt
10. Anger
gorge
disproof
ire
spear
11. Long thin move very fast
glean
subdue
ponderous
streak
12. Making dear or liked
endearing
sash
epiphany
stygian
13. Smell favor reputation
emaciate
perch
hypocrisy
odor
14. An outcast a rejected and despised person
pariah
caustic
censure
arabesque
15. Incapable of being discovered or understood
pundit
impute
inscrutable
warmonger
16. A blindly devoted patriot
penitent
vigilant
arrogance
chauvinist
17. To go proceed
penchant
pernicious
wend
savor
18. Easily broken
repast
sanguine
sordid
brittle
19. Childish
puerile
detraction
reverent
disheveled
20. Obscene
ameliorate
grouse
doggerel
salacious
21. Low vulgar base tawdry
esoteric
impromptu
raffish
pileous
22. Scarcity a lacking of
endorse
paucity
agog
gorge
23. Omen marvelous threatening
extinct
contrite
portent
foment
24. Habit or action peculiar to something
enunciate
quirk
apotheosis
daunt
25. Involving or using conversation.
concur
colloquial
deprecate
guile
26. (of eyes) dull
lackluster
descry
ostensible
tassel
27. Physical of or for the body
counterfeit
churl
corporeal
defalcate
28. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
incipient
felicitous
incumbents
credulous
29. Flag/badge
flimsy
quail
ensign
apprehensive
30. Small boat
rueful
endeavor
coalescing
skiff
31. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
refractory
presage
aplomb
dislodge
32. Make nervous or confused
fluster
inadvertent
demagogue
predominate
33. Showing respect
irresolute
coeval
deferential
transgress
34. Hesitating undecided
mellifluous
decree
nibble
irresolute
35. Break go beyond (a limit)
transgress
verve
sketchy
sinuous
36. Self-confidence
foil
aplomb
asterisk
squander
37. Kind of stone inflexible
supersede
cordon
adamant
exorbitant
38. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
nostrum
indolence
abscond
39. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
prosaic
vanquish
defer
attune
40. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
torpid
obstreperous
fret
pious
41. Quick changeable in character fleeting
garrulous
facile
mercurial
regicide
42. Worldly having contempt for God
grandiloquent
parenthesis
profane
adamant
43. Shining brilliant
gourmand
poncho
substantiation
refulgent
44. That cannot be rubbed out
alacrity
indelible
paucity
veracity
45. A loud domineering woman a scold or nag
imperviousness
virago
assail
Conduce
46. Yield - die
protracted
succumb
forbear
obfuscate
47. To make an effort - to try very hard
discomfit
gaucherie
endeavor
hapless
48. Unreasonably impatient
fallacious
petulant
deferential
vagary
49. Skeptical unwilling to believe
incredulous
adorn
lionize
impervious
50. Speech lecture
discourse
ubiquitous
extirpate
sere