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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. Sham counterfeit not genuine
bogus
highbrow
discourse
exigency
2. Rules establishing standards of conduct
eloquence
precepts
euphoria
turgid
3. Cut roughly hired horse
fervid
ruddy
hack
perish
4. Astute showing sound judgement
holster
shrewd
cantankerous
reactionary
5. Keep the memory of
commemorate
enervate
striated
tadpole
6. Parody/imitation
travesty
harangue
impetuous
rotund
7. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
submerge
cadge
sluggard
bedizen
8. Make nervous or confused
fluster
ineluctable
profane
quixotic
9. Get somebody to do something by kindness
edacious
coax
minatory
shrewd
10. A long passionate speech
harangue
introspection
commemorate
undermine
11. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
implicate
palate
euphoria
12. Trouble disturbance
elicit
undulate
turmoil
incorrigibility
13. Polite and friendly
scribble
antidote
malleable
affable
14. Wandering
streak
candid
peripatetic
coda
15. Silly senseless
hack
glib
vehemence
inane
16. Distracted
veritable
agglutinate
distrait
fringe
17. Notched
countenance
panegyric
abeyance
jagged
18. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
retinue
orison
abacus
partisan
19. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
prodigal
effete
wince
rarefy
20. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
dereliction
travesty
mischievous
rebus
21. The saving of property from loss
feud
laudatory
cumbersome
salvage
22. Brief and to the point
convoluted
suborn
terse
falter
23. Commanding haughty arrogant
requite
imperious
precursors
untoward
24. Easy-going trifle
incise
eloquence
specious
unencumbered
25. Scold upbraid
reproach
extinct
sidestep
portent
26. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
nexus
fidelity
warmonger
yeoman
27. Contempt dislike aversion
valiant
dirge
odium
wince
28. Spending using unwillingly
cajole
barrage
impute
stingy
29. To tolerate endure
brook
decry
grievous
punctilious
30. Be unsteady and overturn
lull
aversion
umbrage
topple
31. Existing in a wild or untamed state
quack
prevaricate
exorbitant
feral
32. Shameless immorality
noxious
profligacy
provisional
extralegal
33. Satisfy fully
moribund
collusion
disconcert
satiate
34. With attack violently
suborn
descry
mendicant
assail
35. Fertile
fecund
sponge
diatribe
officious
36. Polloi the masses the rabble
surfeit
squander
hoi
bequest
37. Skill (esp. in handling)
perpetrate
plunge
petrous
dexterity
38. Since because
simper
inasmuch
sermon
submerge
39. Favorable successful prosperous
auspicious
talon
jibe
glean
40. Slander say evil things
enthral
vilify
ameliorate
grave
41. Fluent
voluble
satiate
ferocity
somersault
42. Blacken belittle sully defame
denigrate
baneful
dwarf
slate
43. Formal praise eulogy
quibble
panegyric
benevolence
ascertain
44. Appearing TRUE or real
convoke
sordid
verisimilitude
brash
45. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
extirpate
overweening
pliant
tenacity
46. A riddle dilemma enigma
incorrigibility
conundrum
libel
baleful
47. Learned scholarly
ensign
efface
maladroit
erudite
48. Aud a person of something
foil
brash
predilection
mulct
49. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
quiescence
precursors
provident
foster
50. Paint portray
yeoman
limn
inured
viscous