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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. Cause produce give rise to
salvage
visceral
gaucherie
engender
2. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
debacle
testiness
extol
coagulation
3. Soothe pacify calm
placate
wend
remonstrate
trepidation
4. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
qualm
plethora
streak
encomium
5. Rise fly high
probity
turpitude
soar
gullible
6. To hinder obstruct or block
inveigh
sententious
transient
stymie
7. Insulting tending to damage
privation
premature
apprise
derogatory
8. Noisy and rough
blatant
voluble
tautology
obdurate
9. Fertile
deposition
foil
scalding
fecund
10. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
preternatural
baleful
regicide
haughty
11. Shyness
diffidence
specious
obtrusive
pulchritude
12. Blessing
disrobe
benison
homiletics
denigrate
13. Based on error
repast
fallacious
credulity
palate
14. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
germane
molt
heed
orison
15. Rebel nonconformist
maverick
retard
facile
rotund
16. Obsequious flatterer
toady
wan
prevaricate
pinch
17. Taking off getting rid of giving up
paucity
augury
divestiture
virago
18. Sweet-smelling
decree
pundit
profane
fragrant
19. Make tight or smaller
constrict
repudiate
dawdler
ostentation
20. Trivial poorly constructed verse
imperturbable
doggerel
sermon
ecumenical
21. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
euphoria
epicurean
idyll
moribund
22. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
succor
abrogate
flak
aggravate
23. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
fission
philistine
alloy
derivative
24. To remove obscenity purify censor
expurgate
doggerel
salvage
pivotal
25. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
inimitable
reminiscent
bandy
reprobate
26. Weaken deprive of strength attenuate
baleful
vitriolic
invincible
enervate
27. Easily understood lucid clear
inquest
luculent
foppish
incessant
28. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
expostulate
vigilance
inimitable
cursory
29. Trouble disturbance
turmoil
inasmuch
adorn
palliate
30. Porous rubber for washing live at once expense
sponge
dote
ascetic
acclaimed
31. Rubbed off worn away by friction
audacious
accretion
philistine
abraded
32. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
incise
perjury
expedient
putrefaction
33. Regular customer person who gives support
patron
loquacious
sagacious
harangue
34. Oppose to alcohol
apostate
soporific
encapsulate
teetotal
35. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
soggy
heterogeneous
mince
intersperse
36. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
ingest
streak
garner
ossify
37. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
slur
impassive
obsequious
repulsive
38. Skeptical unwilling to believe
vagary
vigilance
churlish
incredulous
39. Common
petulant
shard
profuse
prevalent
40. (adj) boorish
churlish
hoodwink
incumbents
antidote
41. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
trickle
abstruse
denouement
propitious
42. Get somebody to do something by kindness
poignant
coax
iconoclast
laudatory
43. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
equivocal
retinue
perspicacity
fetid
44. A model example or pattern
clot
sophisticated
paradigm
demur
45. Quick judging and understanding
dismal
probity
trifling
perspicacity
46. Over look at with selfish delight
gloat
cant
scorch
quiescence
47. Call calling of names
supine
roll
render
puissance
48. Be faithful to endure
prevalent
abide
platitude
encapsulate
49. Personal mannerism
idiosyncrasy
officious
cognizant
adorn
50. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
maladroit
pitfall
lien
foray