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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. Welcomed with shouts and approval
propinquity
shallow
emaciate
acclaimed
2. Stone used for sharpening tools
ameliorate
conciliatory
pied
hone
3. Strong convincing
sublime
dearth
trickle
cogent
4. Surprise and fear dismay
glean
extol
consternation
accrue
5. Think deeply mediate
cogitate
contemn
bask
recidivism
6. Making dear or liked
ineptitude
profundity
endearing
incipient
7. Suspended action
coeval
taciturn
abeyance
bedizen
8. Harmful
levee
agglutinate
noxious
penurious
9. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
ingenuous
spurn
gush
renovate
10. Treacherous faithless
scorch
elicit
consummate
perfidious
11. Easily controlled or guided
tractable
wean
indigenous
dexterity
12. Being fully aware of
sanity
accretion
entice
cognizant
13. Trivial poorly constructed verse
renowned
chauvinist
raffish
doggerel
14. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
countenance
eclat
spurn
detraction
15. Humorous funny jocular
gregarious
facetious
perjury
morose
16. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
quixotic
fragrant
shunned
epithet
17. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
truce
abscond
cumbersome
refulgent
18. Inclined to fighting
bandy
repudiate
abate
bellicose
19. Suggestion in addition to
connotation
grouse
inadvertent
recluse
20. Anger
countenance
ire
fulsome
prosaic
21. The saving of property from loss
doggerel
discountenance
discredit
salvage
22. Continue doing something without resting
exoneration
plod
calisthenics
flak
23. Causing a feeling of disgust
nexus
fallacious
vacillation
repulsive
24. Hot enough to boil
scalding
prevalent
gullible
congeal
25. Lying on the back slow to act passive
assail
treacherous
supine
clientele
26. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
ruddy
expedient
beatify
topple
27. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
correlate
judicious
sundry
phlegmatic
28. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
pucker
assuage
yarn
erratic
29. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
crease
nebulous
sagacious
libel
30. Direct opposing
garble
inquest
antithetical
susceptibility
31. Pedant authority on a subject
concur
pundit
urbane
satiate
32. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
forswear
congeal
crease
squander
33. Pure faultless
harrow
equivocate
mercurial
immaculate
34. Change direction
veer
treacherous
pungency
misanthrope
35. Go or come up
punitive
ascend
haughty
flinch
36. Like a slave lacking independence
reactionary
unfeigned
valiant
servile
37. Deliberate deception
recast
stint
grave
duplicity
38. Real rightly named
succor
epicurean
veritable
pariah
39. Unresisting submissive
imminent
presage
resigned
foment
40. Of the body
alcove
inadvertent
somatic
molt
41. State of doubt or perplexity
impecunious
boorish
parsimonious
quandary
42. Hence dark gloomy
stygian
recast
extol
veracity
43. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
flout
perish
shun
auspicious
44. Wickedness shamefulness
foray
quixotic
turpitude
unscathed
45. Legal trickery/false argument
profundity
infuriate
intransigence
chicanery
46. Instruct; correct morally
attenuate
myriad
edify
spurn
47. Looking ill - not bright
luminary
wan
vagary
innocuous
48. Silly senseless
obdurate
inane
ascetic
flout
49. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
undulate
malapropism
effete
bequest
50. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
turbid
petrous
rancorous
turmoil