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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. Approval
suppress
ponderous
approbation
arrogance
2. Brief and to the point
terse
grouse
sordid
rarefy
3. Straying away from what is normal
astute
frugal
topple
aberration
4. Made up of different kinds
heterogeneous
trudge
corroboration
valorous
5. Increase in density strength make laconic
nebulous
presumption
condense
debacle
6. Disguised
covert
bereft
hypocrisy
quirk
7. Able to fly trained experienced
strive
fledged
entangle
levee
8. Person who tells anecdotes
avid
raconteur
soporific
censure
9. A number of performance of music
idiosyncrasy
recitals
infuriate
castigate
10. Unfortunate inconvenient
untoward
harbinger
squat
virago
11. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
bereft
discomfit
sponge
presage
12. Open disobedience or resistance
arabesque
endeavor
boisterous
defiance
13. Abundant/lavish
foible
obloquy
edacious
profuse
14. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
maudlin
fulmination
tout
accrue
15. One who hates women/females
misogynist
alloy
commuter
fledged
16. Habit or action peculiar to something
stygian
veer
quirk
dirge
17. Liking to give hospitality
churlish
hospitable
ameliorate
spurious
18. Jesting
lugubrious
grouse
droll
sobriquet
19. Helping supporting
ire
chisel
pest
auxiliary
20. Strong inclination a liking
fecund
daunt
penchant
rift
21. Avoided - kept away from
divulge
tractable
shunned
warrant
22. Serious requiring consideration
grave
conciliatory
manacle
desultory
23. Truth
meticulous
amalgamate
abacus
veracity
24. Paint portray
alcove
limn
waffle
turbulence
25. That cannot be permeated
impermeable
panegyric
perilous
elegy
26. Sweet-smelling
convoluted
reticence
amortize
fragrant
27. Speak distinctly connect by joints
sash
articulate
covetous
limp
28. Forcefulness
plummet
lurk
vehemence
dolt
29. Impress deeply
strut
engrave
imminent
temerity
30. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
hew
fidelity
rumple
palate
31. Narrow-mindedness isolated
matriculation
bigot
ascribe
insularity
32. Have a mutual relation
empirical
vituperate
suppliant
correlate
33. Sharpness stinging quality
pungency
tadpole
deprecate
curtail
34. Still in existence
equilibrium
resilience
extant
ineluctable
35. Repayment death of Jesus
pedantic
atonement
lull
ascend
36. Untidy
somersault
curmudgeon
disheveled
proscribe
37. FALSE counterfeit
spurious
endorse
indomitable
consternation
38. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
incorrigibility
qualm
encomium
trencherman
39. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
odor
fringe
husk
pristine
40. Trying to please; obliging
nebulous
complaisant
elegy
superimpose
41. Mix combine unite societies
inchoate
amalgamate
ecumenical
enduring
42. Person guilty of murder
felon
trickle
pugnacious
indomitable
43. Person who hates mankind
misanthrope
proscribe
balk
inured
44. Obscene
salacious
indolence
buoyant
blithe
45. Legal or judicial inquiry - especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
inquest
equable
defalcate
exscind
46. Wandering
condense
peripatetic
deferential
arabesque
47. At be discontented with
recondite
divestiture
repine
raconteur
48. Disobedient
recalcitrant
felon
sanctimony
defiance
49. Gruesome suggesting death
macabre
asperity
agog
deter
50. Mean contemptible
crush
presage
scurvy
countenance