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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. Long thin move very fast
streak
adulteration
repast
extricable
2. Formidable causing fear
redoubtable
revere
plumb
indulge
3. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
muffler
equipoise
fatuous
probity
4. Waver/move in an uncertain manner
falter
assiduous
prevalent
soporific
5. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
rancorous
finicky
expostulate
6. Fit to be eaten/not poisonous
dulcet
edible
coddle
cryptic
7. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
splice
trepidation
beatify
moribund
8. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
mien
transitory
heresy
enthral
9. Substance that shrinks
poignant
hospitable
brass
astringent
10. Fail/move/fall clumsily
sporadic
flop
jocular
lurk
11. FALSE counterfeit
invective
perish
gorge
spurious
12. Complicated coiled twisted
serrated
mendicant
variegate
convoluted
13. Direct opposing
simper
antithetical
lavish
evoke
14. Enormous wonderful
prodigious
reiterate
render
impervious
15. Person who is slow waste of time
tadpole
propitiatory
impediment
dawdler
16. Blacken belittle sully defame
castigate
denigrate
verdant
coeval
17. Showing no emotion impassive
impudent
nadir
stolid
fission
18. Suggestion in addition to
connotation
shrill
enmity
incursion
19. Expressing or giving praise
abut
vindictive
laudatory
turgid
20. Show off complacently
foment
implosion
discomfit
flaunting
21. Giving up control authority
hone
virago
incumbents
abdication
22. Cheerful confident optimistic
succumb
quaff
sanguine
forbearance
23. To clear from a charge of guilt
exculpate
precursory
knit
forbear
24. Call calling of names
evince
surfeit
benefactor
roll
25. Place here and there
requite
alacrity
intersperse
voluptuous
26. Set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
gorge
protracted
pith
exoneration
27. A carefree episode or experience
slack
jejune
mollify
idyll
28. That gives warning or information
inundate
asperity
disheveled
telltale
29. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
tassel
foster
ardor
30. Quick changeable in character fleeting
enmity
punctilious
mercurial
ascetic
31. Corrosive; sarcastic
hallow
mite
vitriolic
provoke
32. Frame with balls for calculating
revere
chary
abacus
enduring
33. Forgery
frugal
irksome
counterfeit
rubicund
34. Letter
rancorous
florid
extort
epistle
35. To be established accepted or customary
obtain
shrill
pristine
impending
36. Childish
grievous
testiness
lucubrate
puerile
37. Crawl humble oneself
imprecation
grovel
pertain
prune
38. Person who has given help
benefactor
recast
opaqueness
dangle
39. Something sharp
sting
gust
embellish
coeval
40. Large pile of wood for burning
stray
pyre
elicit
innocuous
41. Prevent from carrying out contrast
foil
deprave
poncho
tonic
42. Crude offensive rude
rotund
distraught
boorish
virago
43. Without preparation or forethought
obtain
disallow
offhand
benign
44. A blindly devoted patriot
chauvinist
atonement
morose
elegy
45. Prayer
indolence
massacre
orison
flimsy
46. Secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
collusion
reprobate
machination
raffish
47. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
sordid
lull
reticent
apprise
48. Physical of or for the body
parley
chaste
corporeal
graze
49. Formal reception/embankment
levee
stint
pernicious
cravat
50. See with an effort but clearly
pry
cant
recast
discern