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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. Epidemic
paean
presage
endemic
stymie
2. Make a humble petition to
ineluctable
lope
supplicate
goad
3. Claw of a bird of prey
coddle
verdant
provoke
talon
4. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
vindictive
daunt
prosaic
tamp
5. Red and healthy
adulteration
exigency
placate
rubicund
6. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
conciliatory
credulity
enzyme
duress
7. A carefree episode or experience
idyll
cant
indulge
forage
8. Poor/stingy
penurious
skit
disencumber
equivocal
9. Boldness brashness intrepidness
temerity
retrograde
husk
urbane
10. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
reproach
palate
truculence
lucubrate
11. Asking humbly beseeching
skit
suppliant
ascribe
fragile
12. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
auxiliary
stifled
lumber
plaque
13. Noisy and rough
mite
enmity
blatant
malign
14. Tending to evade
levity
incite
evasive
rivet
15. Something that is puzzling
dawdler
acarpous
probity
enigma
16. Lasting
propitious
concur
irrevocable
enduring
17. Come to grips/settle conclusively
clinch
parenthesis
blandishment
obstreperous
18. Walk with long steps
flamboyant
stride
striated
wean
19. Rebel nonconformist
distrait
penurious
maverick
astringent
20. Continue doing something without resting
cant
plod
sagacious
exoneration
21. Defying imitation unmatchable
veneration
vain
precursors
inimitable
22. Unfortunate inconvenient
imbroglio
euthanasia
untoward
truce
23. Untidy
pillage
disheveled
aseptic
forage
24. Prevent make impossible
assail
preclude
malevolence
noisome
25. Propriety properness
recant
decorum
diatribe
balk
26. Having both of two contrary meanings
fervor
baneful
ambivalent
involute
27. Exercises to develop strong bodies
dissolution
viscous
chastened
calisthenics
28. Sensitiveness
subsume
susceptibility
matriculation
brook
29. Harmful injurious
paradigm
pernicious
malleable
brass
30. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
flop
daunt
ebullience
nebulous
31. Difficult to comprehend obscure
fringe
restive
abstruse
volatile
32. Regard with deep respect
gossamer
connotation
boorish
veneration
33. Elation state of pleasant excitement
ruddy
euphoria
harbinger
myriad
34. Made up of different kinds
abacus
indistinct
cravat
heterogeneous
35. Causing no harm
bandy
flamboyant
forestall
innocuous
36. Wish or activity in doing good
reticence
exculpate
forswear
benevolence
37. Substance that shrinks
astringent
imperious
credulous
articulate
38. Idleness
fixate
qualm
vacuity
blandishment
39. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
quail
equivocal
visceral
empirical
40. Care economy thriving prosperous
variegate
inadvertent
thrift
lope
41. Call up bring out
evoke
pest
affable
tadpole
42. Eagerly desirous
aspersion
equivocate
covetous
sullied
43. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
aggravate
flout
transient
ambiguous
44. Excessive admiration of
disinter
maverick
idolatry
jagged
45. Duty support loyalty
attune
inimitable
stanch
allegiance
46. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
lionize
malevolence
overhaul
glean
47. Easily gulled
castigate
gullible
itinerate
coalescing
48. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
profligate
repast
extempore
nostrum
49. Attractive on the surface but of little value
breach
blithe
gaucherie
meretricious
50. Of great importance (others depend on it)
macabre
pivotal
defiance
blase