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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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1. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
discomfit
muffler
malleable
gist
2. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
refulgent
vehemence
trickle
impetuous
3. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
misanthrope
hone
pique
highbrow
4. Small boat
mince
tortuous
skiff
fracas
5. Regard with deep respect
prevaricate
ensconce
veneration
voluble
6. Too great a readiness to believe things
cornucopia
inveterate
credulity
pith
7. Star light-giving body
impediment
rumple
luminary
dogmatic
8. To lessen to subside
astute
abate
droll
sobriety
9. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
churlish
embellish
pious
manacle
10. Certain inevitable
exploit
imperious
taut
ineluctable
11. Worldly having contempt for God
precarious
profane
jocular
incumbents
12. Omen marvelous threatening
portent
sere
coax
parenthesis
13. Pure faultless
tawdry
miser
immaculate
barrage
14. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
tarnished
ferret
connote
procrastination
15. Relevant pertinent to
correlate
machination
germane
inculcate
16. Getting farther apart from a point
nebulous
articulate
divergence
perch
17. A repetition a redundancy
mundane
equilibrium
tautology
plead
18. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
shunt
succor
maladroit
obfuscate
19. Weak/unsteady light
reminiscent
glimmer
adorn
squalid
20. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
interim
duplicity
apropos
21. Eager/excited
whimsical
shallow
agog
precarious
22. Summary or outline
puerile
trepidation
synopsis
harangue
23. Prayer
adorn
impromptu
orison
sluggard
24. Deliver provide represent
auspicious
ambrosial
implosion
render
25. Slow way of speaking
grandiloquent
foment
dulcet
drawl
26. Rich and deep plump and round
rotund
extricable
proliferate
beatify
27. Suspended action
abeyance
irascible
paradigm
ensign
28. Well-suited; quick-witted
pique
apt
feckless
rant
29. Make quiet or calm
adamant
ubiquitous
taut
appease
30. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
crass
liberality
latent
proliferate
31. Accumulate
fledged
overweening
distraught
accrue
32. (adj) boorish
prosaic
cognizant
inane
churlish
33. Careful economical
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
frugal
testiness
intersperse
34. Measure hoe heavy something is
incongruous
weigh
idyll
pious
35. Gibe make fun of
heterogeneous
middling
jibe
pugnacious
36. An outcast a rejected and despised person
pariah
implicate
erratic
odious
37. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
shrewd
forage
roll
38. Kind of stone inflexible
adamant
alloy
voluble
forswear
39. Fairly good but not very good
exigency
grovel
indigenous
middling
40. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
proscribe
machination
slate
correlate
41. To protest object
lassitude
ostentation
remonstrate
maul
42. Repayment death of Jesus
encomium
atonement
volubility
entice
43. Blessing
articulate
convoke
benison
vigilance
44. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
salubrious
bigot
obfuscate
suborn
45. Causing grief or pain serious dire grave
grievous
hermetic
eschew
qualm
46. Sharpness stinging quality
gnaw
perish
pungency
surfeit
47. Convincing firm belief
ecumenical
plead
conviction
stride
48. Refuse to believe
discredit
teetotal
quirk
articulate
49. State of growing vigorously being full of life
precursors
exuberance
finesse
decorum
50. Settle a quarrel restore peace
treacherous
reconcile
refine
sequence