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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. Supply to much fill to excess
glut
truculence
ameliorate
deprave
2. Trying to please; obliging
complaisant
finicky
manacle
connotation
3. Stupid fellow
exoneration
dolt
perch
abet
4. Brave -behaves well with women
gallant
froward
malign
mendacity
5. Mischievous trick played to deceive
engrossing
hoax
incise
extenuate
6. Bombastic
regicide
labyrinthine
fustian
vestige
7. Distracted
censure
distrait
ingenuous
abysmal
8. Vexation
effete
chagrin
petulant
obtuse
9. Showing earnest feeling
cantankerous
perish
recreancy
fervid
10. Having both of two contrary meanings
ambivalent
impassive
apartheid
evasive
11. Try to avoid by sophistication
ruffian
bewilder
maladroit
quibble
12. Using pompous words
grandiloquent
predominate
heed
pungency
13. Repulsive hateful
encumbrance
patron
odious
compunction
14. Easy-going trifle
incise
encapsulate
unencumbered
edacious
15. Taking too little care
grandiloquent
mischievous
negligent
mettlesome
16. Succession connected line of
encumbrance
reticence
assiduous
sequence
17. Make or become pure cultural
refine
deplete
sporadic
vestige
18. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
whimsical
extol
censure
arrant
19. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
ossify
aberration
conspicuous
cravat
20. Magnificent
wend
supplicate
rebuff
palatial
21. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
peremptory
fringe
trepidation
belligerent
22. Strong energetic
apprise
vigorous
grovel
transitory
23. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
abjure
conundrum
jagged
indefatigability
24. Quality of endurance or courage
invective
dynamo
mettle
expostulate
25. Have more power than others
predominate
permeate
endorse
edify
26. Too strong to be defeated
inundate
jagged
invincible
yarn
27. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
garrulous
flimsy
lavish
talon
28. In enjoy warmth and light
bask
retrospective
odor
savor
29. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
ramify
nonplused
sublime
30. Deep-rooted. long-established
inveterate
diffidence
catalyst
effrontery
31. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
foil
exscind
austere
balk
32. Give notice to inform
evoke
apprise
inept
endemic
33. Getting farther apart from a point
divergence
forestall
wile
stymie
34. Make or become stiff and solid
weigh
congeal
rife
discrete
35. Shortage
dearth
barren
hallow
perish
36. Make thin and weak
venal
endemic
untoward
emaciate
37. Having a toothed edge
middling
serrated
strive
timorous
38. Be guilty commit (a crime)
invincible
savor
edacious
perpetrate
39. Hairy shaggy
hirsute
broach
desultory
transitory
40. Relevant pertinent to
germane
rancorous
duress
muffler
41. Refuse to approve of
moderation
sedulous
discountenance
sober
42. Complex
bigot
auxiliary
involute
veracity
43. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
barrage
enervate
inept
overhaul
44. Greedy (esp for money)
odor
halcyon
rapacious
indulgent
45. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
recuperate
inveigh
sophomoric
gloat
46. Frank straight-forward
quiescence
candid
interdict
cajole
47. Overcome bring under control
skit
augury
antithetical
subdue
48. Care economy thriving prosperous
thrift
ambiguous
orison
recalcitrant
49. Without preparation or forethought
satiate
offhand
felon
virago
50. Break off
divergence
sever
yeoman
craven