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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
miser
muffler
insularity
profligacy
2. Authority written order guarantee
contrite
specious
gossamer
warrant
3. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
fallacious
profligate
irascible
sinuous
4. Constant
breach
incessant
insensible
nebulous
5. Much too high or great
exorbitant
canvass
hone
reactionary
6. Quick hurried
vagary
plaintive
cursory
animosity
7. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
itinerate
pinch
broach
stanch
8. To make hard rocklike
recompense
felon
piquant
petrify
9. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
beguile
droll
prosaic
pious
10. Getting farther apart from a point
divergence
pitfall
pliant
gorge
11. Disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
lithe
ostentation
fulsome
stingy
12. Border on
abut
gouge
impassive
rave
13. Give greatly needed support
rumple
treacherous
bolster
conviction
14. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
incense
levity
truce
interim
15. Quick judging and understanding
perspicacity
forage
asterisk
welter
16. Dejected
rueful
derogatory
presage
resort
17. A group or band of people
variegate
rivet
noxious
cohort
18. Slander say evil things
vilify
heresy
stigma
profundity
19. Puzzling person or thing
convoke
vex
riddle
multifarious
20. Suddenly changeable
maverick
tangential
debacle
cumbersome
21. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
veritable
jabber
obtuse
deprecate
22. Pedant authority on a subject
attenuate
perish
pundit
ensign
23. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
desultory
offhand
consequential
slur
24. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
calisthenics
decorum
penury
impiety
25. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
liberality
lithe
arboreal
resilience
26. Place here and there
intersperse
grave
infuriate
idyll
27. Banal everyday
parenthesis
ramify
savant
quotidian
28. Compel to force to make obedient
coerce
antidote
feint
aggravate
29. Avoided - kept away from
fecund
shunned
reticence
luculent
30. Having a toothed edge
specious
bellicose
serrated
savor
31. Treat with contempt
husk
sublime
snub
provoke
32. Complex subtle refined
ambrosial
voluble
sophisticated
quiescence
33. Black powder in smoke
paradigm
soot
preen
sublime
34. Unharmed unhurt
expurgate
precursory
muffler
unscathed
35. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
gush
mundane
deviance
defer
36. Fresh and green
frugal
verdant
stifled
engrossing
37. Worthless outside part of anything
rueful
husk
sluggard
gnaw
38. See with an effort but clearly
prudish
crass
discern
graze
39. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
labyrinthine
fawn
dupe
recompense
40. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
neophyte
sketchy
stipulate
spear
41. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
mischievous
pervade
somersault
serration
42. Admit; declare openly
complaisant
fidget
convoluted
avow
43. Persevering
trencherman
sedulous
maul
chagrin
44. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
pedantic
supine
preen
disencumber
45. Scold upbraid
saturnine
preponderance
reproach
relapse
46. Being uncertain hesitating
ambidextrous
pervade
maladroit
vacillation
47. To remove obscenity purify censor
insipid
expurgate
coax
alcove
48. Temporary fleeting
transient
indomitable
stifled
ulterior
49. Having a desire to revenge
ambiguous
vindictive
feud
timorous
50. Containing warning
repine
ire
calipers
admonitory