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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
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. Dishonorable common undignified
lackluster
ignoble
veneration
endeavor
2. Dismal - mourful
doleful
limn
astute
maudlin
3. A trick
conceal
telltale
drone
wile
4. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
crease
eloquence
debacle
adorn
5. Greatness in number strength weight
timorous
odor
attenuate
preponderance
6. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
sanity
divergence
engrossing
simper
7. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
ignominious
umbrage
imperturbable
sagacious
8. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
ascribe
esoteric
enunciate
effrontery
9. A number of performance of music
personable
picaresque
deplete
recitals
10. Recess/partially enclosed place
alcove
detumescence
sequence
intersperse
11. To polish rub to a shine
probity
burnish
incorrigibility
ossify
12. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
fission
ale
derivative
truce
13. Wish or activity in doing good
benevolence
noisome
loll
esoteric
14. Insubstantial/dull/immature
encapsulate
jejune
tout
petrified
15. Red and healthy
disdain
impair
rubicund
veneration
16. Make morally bad corrupt
brittle
saturnine
deprave
offhand
17. Puzzle confuse
bewilder
subpoena
ambrosial
finesse
18. Care economy thriving prosperous
thrift
precursory
satiate
implosion
19. To go proceed
mercurial
wend
turpitude
desultory
20. Savage cruelty
ferocity
hone
stray
antithetical
21. Spread into every part of
permeate
sodden
desultory
equanimity
22. Have more power than others
shrill
lionize
testiness
predominate
23. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
ulterior
forge
palate
hew
24. Doubtful uncertain
suppress
importune
ambiguous
calipers
25. State of being passive/motionless
skiff
pine
quiescence
revere
26. Draw move back wince
conceal
flinch
indulge
gossamer
27. Wickedness shamefulness
disparate
turpitude
doggerel
rave
28. To tolerate endure
brook
rave
temerity
obviate
29. Strength
plaque
soporific
puissance
invective
30. Easily seen remarkable
prodigal
churl
frenetic
conspicuous
31. Shining brilliant
dogmatic
virago
disingenuous
refulgent
32. Ill-tempered unsocial
morose
drone
empirical
plaque
33. Person who travels regularly
fragile
commuter
calumny
gallant
34. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
turbid
fragile
homiletics
presage
35. Real rightly named
exhaustive
preen
veritable
trencherman
36. Common
dainty
prevalent
narcissism
idyll
37. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
contrite
abraded
precursory
profundity
38. At be discontented with
repine
severance
ramify
chisel
39. Formal praise eulogy
eddy
petulant
panegyric
enthral
40. Enormous wonderful
evasive
prodigious
supersede
matriculation
41. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
warrant
brash
foible
arduous
42. That gives warning or information
telltale
personable
dismal
wean
43. Avoided - kept away from
debacle
shunned
rift
lassitude
44. Deceit cunning
guile
ubiquitous
stingy
obsequious
45. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
coax
balk
corporeal
valorous
46. To make great efforts - to struggle
expurgate
vestige
stifled
strive
47. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
epicurean
impudent
reminiscent
undermine
48. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
substantiation
gullible
predominate
propinquity
49. Reddish - healthy-looking
disingenuous
trudge
ruddy
loquacious
50. Feeling doubt
dangle
dubious
impassive
suffice