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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. Attract - lure
recidivism
crush
thwart
entice
2. The point general sense
bellicose
centurion
duress
gist
3. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
pertain
procrastination
frantic
propitiatory
4. Not having interest
regicide
nonplused
nonchalant
effete
5. Shortage
hoi
glean
complaisance
dearth
6. Give notice to inform
contrite
blandness
apprise
interdict
7. Be unsteady and overturn
apostate
indigenous
topple
alcove
8. To make great efforts - to struggle
strive
testiness
burnish
forage
9. Steady regular
gust
equable
renovate
slate
10. A supporting bar
yeoman
strut
deplete
blase
11. A trite or banal statement unoriginality
platitude
parsimonious
hollow
rejuvenation
12. Personal mannerism
hospitable
idiosyncrasy
pine
desultory
13. Easily broken
elicit
brittle
wince
lucubrate
14. Succession connected line of
ambivalent
foolproof
sequence
overhaul
15. Describe somebody scornfully
recant
vivacious
stigmatize
chaste
16. Direct opposing
grave
antithetical
puerile
predominate
17. Without use result conceited
ascend
vain
ponderous
depredation
18. Increasing the number spreading extending
effrontery
pernicious
propagation
pest
19. Attention/give notice to
temerity
heed
precursory
parsimonious
20. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
quibble
shunned
cantankerous
ostracism
21. Interfere with
subpoena
torpid
tamper
ferment
22. Substance become excited
parenthesis
baleful
ferment
acumen
23. Little known abstruse
counterfeit
bequest
ulterior
recondite
24. Arrogant pride
disrobe
stentorian
hubris
abhor
25. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
astute
underbid
forge
rave
26. Hence dark gloomy
squander
stygian
taut
mellifluous
27. Abusive language curses
heed
ineffable
undulate
invective
28. No use person something that fails
preternatural
equanimity
dud
tout
29. Needing effort burdensome
denouement
indomitable
onerous
infuse
30. Legal or judicial inquiry - especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
inquest
insularity
sagacious
fervor
31. Treat as a famous person
secular
propinquity
lionize
negligent
32. Offensive disgusting (smell)
noisome
warrant
fledged
servile
33. Bending twisting
lithe
repudiate
upbraid
beatify
34. Strong energetic
entice
halcyon
vigorous
fagged
35. Heavy with water
articulate
splice
indigenous
soggy
36. Severe punishment
castigation
putrefaction
forfeit
officious
37. Suppress subdue
quell
treacherous
rant
harangue
38. Lucky stroke
entangle
terse
fluke
infuse
39. Appearing TRUE or real
insularity
abide
verisimilitude
quack
40. Get to the end of
dismal
chary
ameliorate
consume
41. Of the internal organs of the body
visceral
divergence
abstruse
provident
42. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
cajole
baleful
stymie
taciturn
43. To cut out cut away
renovate
eschew
exscind
scurvy
44. Give greatly needed support
maudlin
detumescence
voluptuous
bolster
45. Plundering
depredation
succor
parsimonious
lament
46. Step to one side
malinger
sidestep
concur
disconcert
47. That gives warning or information
precursory
indistinct
telltale
sanguine
48. Quality of endurance or courage
ensign
gullible
mettle
plaque
49. Irritable easily angered
levity
irascible
collusion
forbearance
50. Easily controlled or guided
infuse
ineptitude
portent
tractable