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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. Speech lecture
lament
discourse
inveterate
spurious
2. Omen sign
loquacious
augury
hallow
falter
3. Of great importance (others depend on it)
tonic
stymie
desuetude
pivotal
4. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
tenacity
urbane
morbid
sponge
5. Curse abuse in words
desuetude
vituperate
coalescing
impecunious
6. Additional load/charge
indefatigability
temperance
idolatry
surcharge
7. Severe pain or suffering
sophisticated
multifarious
appease
torment
8. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
sobriety
nibble
pyre
abstruse
9. A long passionate speech
frugal
auxiliary
eddy
harangue
10. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
commuter
discredit
bewilder
partisan
11. A complex ornate design
pitfall
stride
arabesque
sequence
12. To praise highly
clientele
paean
extol
feckless
13. Becoming rotten
invective
ardor
putrefaction
colloquial
14. Made up of different kinds
incessant
abacus
exculpate
heterogeneous
15. Contempt dislike aversion
tortuous
chisel
odium
blandishment
16. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
fledgling
quixotic
approbation
salacious
17. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
ossify
abrogate
prevaricate
collusion
18. Upset the self-possession of
antithetical
gnaw
disconcert
espouse
19. Uncommunicativeness
reticence
constrict
grave
corporeal
20. Take in by swallowing
mince
pry
imminent
ingest
21. Careful forethought
permeate
vituperate
immaculate
prudence
22. Lacking strength walking unevenly
mundane
limp
hypocrisy
aspersion
23. Final and unalterable
irrevocable
demur
obtuse
heterogeneous
24. Cause produce give rise to
exorbitant
engender
probity
apropos
25. Lost brightness
incise
tarnished
ebullient
hone
26. Stone used for sharpening tools
hone
tonic
macabre
endemic
27. Rash indiscreet
sponge
accrue
impudent
antidote
28. Brief summary representative example a typical model
coy
serrated
shrill
epitome
29. Strong dislike
aversion
moribund
torment
unearth
30. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
quaff
petulant
perfunctory
abet
31. Unimportant
augury
lassitude
supercilious
trifling
32. Counterfeit
forgery
sheath
puissance
effrontery
33. Make shorter then was planned
exhaustive
sundry
curtail
exorbitant
34. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
surfeit
impudent
equipoise
asterisk
35. Suggest something in the past
meretricious
floe
reminiscent
assuage
36. Coming into existence emerging
deplete
caustic
nascent
germane
37. Greenish-blue precious stone
duplicity
nostrum
turquoise
disproof
38. Relevant pertinent to
germane
dwarf
daunt
divulge
39. Trace or sign
divestiture
ignoble
entangle
vestige
40. Use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
embezzle
apropos
puissance
severance
41. Like a seed constituting a source originative
ferocity
lavish
seminal
vacuity
42. Lucky stroke
fluke
vestige
indefatigability
riddle
43. Direct opposing
rebus
dexterity
antithetical
irascible
44. A song of grief or lamentation
ferret
pivotal
dirge
pliant
45. Change direction
valorous
coruscate
veer
viscous
46. Gruesome suggesting death
torment
macabre
craven
serration
47. Slander aspersion
turmoil
calumny
encumbrance
turbid
48. To take in marriage
espouse
ramify
forswear
verdant
49. Outside the law
trepidation
savor
extralegal
clientele
50. Change to a thick and solid state
discrete
indulge
coagulation
conciliatory