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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. Fail/move/fall clumsily
lumber
impediment
flop
blithe
2. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
impassive
endemic
apprehensive
ardor
3. Brave -behaves well with women
gallant
specious
entice
prone
4. Being uncontrolled violent
turbulence
salubrious
centurion
apprehensive
5. Keep away from avoid
privation
shun
extempore
heretic
6. Lose courage turn frightened
quail
insinuate
wile
graze
7. Striped grooved or banded
striated
rubicund
churlish
ineptitude
8. Careful forethought
disencumber
sagacious
fustian
prudence
9. Food for horses and cattle
castigation
purvey
forage
entreat
10. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
gush
unscathed
clot
engrave
11. Approval (by authority) penalty
dawdler
narcissism
sanction
accretion
12. A supporting bar
palpability
strut
limp
evince
13. Incapable of being discovered or understood
felicitous
inscrutable
muffler
punctilious
14. Commonplace trite unremarkable
forbear
pedestrian
ascribe
incipient
15. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
discern
desultory
lackluster
volatile
16. Situated beyond
nebulous
sedulous
hoax
ulterior
17. Lessen the severity of
palliate
blandness
finesse
accretion
18. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
cogitate
shallow
abeyance
austere
19. Learned scholarly
heresy
conspicuous
erudite
recast
20. Smell favor reputation
odor
animosity
discreet
rueful
21. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
disinter
hew
obfuscate
dulcet
22. Severe suffering
anguish
fulmination
underbid
odium
23. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
ineluctable
stipple
encomium
privation
24. A song of grief or lamentation
intersperse
submerge
inferno
dirge
25. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
prevalent
lassitude
repine
waft
26. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
dissent
alloy
repine
mellifluous
27. That cannot be rubbed out
corporeal
conjoin
indelible
coy
28. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
impervious
indefatigability
disallow
misanthrope
29. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
insipid
elicit
foment
vigorous
30. Shy easily frightened
importune
vigilant
timid
ail
31. Member of a vigilance committee
vigilant
disingenuous
enzyme
extempore
32. Take the place of
supersede
brazen
brittle
obloquy
33. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
prevalent
credulity
spurn
disinter
34. Skill (esp. in handling)
reproach
dexterity
ruffian
connotation
35. Strong dislike
mesmerize
flimsy
aversion
unscathed
36. No longer active
pivotal
pest
extinct
illicit
37. Repeal or annul by authority
abrogate
savor
timid
somersault
38. Go or come up
upbraid
ascend
valiant
nadir
39. Agreeably pungent stimulating
somatic
contemn
piquant
sagacious
40. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
clamor
abdication
indulge
limn
41. Legal trickery/false argument
ostentation
chicanery
imperturbable
abrogate
42. Implied though not plainly expressed
timorous
impede
implicit
quirk
43. Excessive admiration of
nonchalant
ferocity
idolatry
extempore
44. A trick
nonchalant
retard
wile
legacy
45. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
penchant
counterfeit
gust
defiance
46. Suffer the loss of something
flaunting
vituperate
forfeit
proclivity
47. Make or become pure cultural
tepid
euphoria
refine
narcissism
48. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
topple
distraught
prudish
enunciate
49. Denounce as dangerous
indefatigability
slur
proscribe
writ
50. State of doubt or perplexity
flaunting
temperance
valorous
quandary