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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. Spending using unwillingly
snub
precursors
crush
stingy
2. Severe suffering
edify
loquacious
coda
anguish
3. Without use result conceited
hoodwink
vain
Palpable
malleable
4. Person guilty of murder
prim
felon
poncho
sobriquet
5. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
malign
surfeit
alleviate
onerous
6. Coming together and uniting into one substance
appease
coalescing
decry
sullied
7. (adj) boorish
centurion
commuter
curmudgeon
churlish
8. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
illicit
deviance
repulsive
plaintive
9. Greatly surprised
spurn
retrospective
dearth
nonplused
10. Feeling of regret for one's action
drawl
disallow
abdication
compunction
11. Long strip worn round the waist
deprecate
sash
extralegal
veneer
12. Unresisting submissive
resigned
ubiquitous
eradicate
ecumenical
13. Cruel killing of a large number of people
inasmuch
epitome
massacre
euthanasia
14. Make (pain) easier to bear
engender
burnish
alleviate
importune
15. Check hinder
rant
burgeon
retard
anguish
16. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
subpoena
equivocal
raconteur
apt
17. Make quiet or calm
appease
ascetic
renovate
malinger
18. Shortly - roughly - quickly
phlegmatic
accolade
sketchy
maverick
19. Lively high-spirited
impudent
contiguous
vivacious
centurion
20. Imminent being about to happen expected
articulate
inept
impending
eddy
21. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
pine
edible
stride
cavalcade
22. Easily done
beguile
bilge
meretricious
facile
23. Display to obtain admiration or envy
hapless
quiescence
ostentation
fustian
24. Covered with hair
mendicant
encumbrance
pileous
ascertain
25. (person) with superior tastes
arboreal
profuse
shunned
highbrow
26. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
inferno
poncho
sluggard
flax
27. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
negligent
unscathed
compunction
rebus
28. Plunder (especially in war)
rave
prolix
inveterate
pillage
29. Bequest or inheritance
legacy
edacious
malign
valorous
30. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
coda
sermon
propitious
gouge
31. Causing a feeling of disgust
repulsive
savant
grouse
audacious
32. To remove obscenity purify censor
upbraid
cabal
stentorian
expurgate
33. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
skiff
impute
sere
enunciate
34. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
gust
underbid
arrogance
impassive
35. Sharpness stinging quality
woo
specious
pungency
finical
36. Of mixed colors
deprecate
abscond
edible
pied
37. Self-controlled
sober
extinct
epistle
gourmand
38. Fond of in the habit of fighting
pugnacious
levee
erratic
impromptu
39. Member of a vigilance committee
waft
trickle
hollow
vigilant
40. Flag/badge
temperance
ensign
chary
supplicate
41. Hinder get in the way of
abhor
diatribe
impede
rancorous
42. Lukewarm
audacious
tepid
perch
rejuvenation
43. Sensitiveness
bereft
commuter
susceptibility
fringe
44. Varied motley greatly diversified
bequest
dawdler
impermeable
multifarious
45. Mark of shame or disgrace
endorse
stigma
satiate
verve
46. Be destroyed decay
perish
accolade
manacle
succumb
47. Counterfeit
accolade
forgery
disallow
rancorous
48. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
beguile
stanch
privation
forestall
49. Threats to compel somebody
duress
hallow
cohort
palpability
50. To tolerate endure
brook
gouge
aver
defer