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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Perfect/make perfect/complete
oblivious
consummate
esoteric
vigilance
2. Small sin small weakness in one's character
peccadillo
blase
vestige
austere
3. Substance that shrinks
astringent
lope
sodden
retinue
4. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
auxiliary
vigilant
emote
equivocal
5. Quality of being limited not extreme
paean
broach
gaucherie
moderation
6. Denounce as dangerous
proscribe
opaqueness
obsequious
bedizen
7. Repeal/annul/cancel
calipers
fallacious
indolence
rescind
8. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
combustion
fringe
imbroglio
veritable
9. Substance used to absorb moisture
irascible
desiccant
sash
reticent
10. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
predilection
sheath
privation
simper
11. Surgically clean
voluble
aseptic
terse
cabal
12. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
indefatigability
adamant
preternatural
abeyance
13. Polite and friendly
incumbents
lumber
scorch
affable
14. Complex
apprehensive
warrant
involute
yarn
15. Passage that completes a piece of music
disproof
encumbrance
finical
coda
16. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
inculcate
propinquity
cower
encomium
17. Biting sarcastic
finical
agile
caustic
opprobrious
18. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
mundane
surfeit
upbraid
supercilious
19. Dejected
retinue
relapse
torpid
rueful
20. Black powder in smoke
temerity
evince
soporific
soot
21. Lack of seriousness
consequential
provident
nonplused
levity
22. To be stained or discredited
seminal
procrastination
penitent
sullied
23. Care economy thriving prosperous
spurn
thrift
preternatural
avow
24. Complicated coiled twisted
insularity
convoluted
finical
flimsy
25. Coming into existence emerging
mendicant
allegiance
nascent
wanton
26. Be destroyed decay
waft
perish
pied
alacrity
27. Duty support loyalty
allegiance
preclude
garner
esoteric
28. Sparkle
extinguish
maul
impute
coruscate
29. Shortage
abrogate
holster
unencumbered
dearth
30. To make an effort - to try very hard
redeem
splice
endeavor
perfidious
31. Catch sight of see something in the distance
profundity
vacillation
descry
noxious
32. Hurt by rough handling
tarnished
arrant
predominate
maul
33. Having a toothed edge
myriad
irresolute
serration
astringent
34. Additional load/charge
cravat
bigot
allegiance
surcharge
35. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
plaque
infuse
jibe
petrify
36. Depth
profundity
gouge
hoodwink
meretricious
37. Write hastily
miser
scribble
enigma
idolatry
38. Disapprove of
prudish
paean
decry
redoubtable
39. Gibe make fun of
jibe
drowsiness
inculcate
sophomoric
40. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
secular
endeavor
efface
onerous
41. Large piece of cloth
interim
poncho
verisimilitude
consume
42. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
raffish
vacillation
fidget
barren
43. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
palliate
torque
astute
depredation
44. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
bigot
poncho
fidelity
sophomoric
45. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
steeply
partisan
rumple
excoriation
46. Make worse irritate
noisome
recant
aggravate
ail
47. Feeling sleepy half asleep
recuperate
quail
drowsiness
peregrination
48. Curse abuse in words
sophisticated
forgery
effluvia
vituperate
49. Say or do again several times
saturnine
coalescing
reiterate
judicious
50. Reproving a person for his faults
sermon
molt
deferential
dissent