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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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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. Too tired
forbear
privation
muffler
fagged
2. Containing warning
denouement
evince
admonitory
vigilant
3. Hardship
poncho
privation
propitious
eradicate
4. Act of preaching
agglutinate
subdue
dogmatic
homiletics
5. Rich and deep plump and round
exculpate
approbation
aleck
rotund
6. Spread through every part of
inveterate
churlish
provoke
pervade
7. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
rebus
ambivalent
supercilious
pious
8. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
prone
allegiance
malleable
florid
9. Obscene
umbrage
enervate
trencherman
salacious
10. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
enthral
tenacity
luculent
abrogate
11. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
somersault
Conduce
propagation
propitiatory
12. Involving or using conversation.
severance
auspicious
hoodwink
colloquial
13. Easy and painless death
bilge
euthanasia
impudent
obtain
14. Directing the mind in a certain direction
supersede
doleful
inclined
diatribe
15. Dismal - mourful
combustion
discrete
colloquial
doleful
16. To speak harmful untruths about someone
affinity
malign
dud
enduring
17. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
fatuous
heretic
topple
tadpole
18. Frugal looking to the future
prodigal
incise
ambidextrous
provident
19. Unaware having no memory
oblivious
abraded
inchoate
hone
20. Adjective
refine
extempore
derogatory
epithet
21. Split crack dissension
propagation
inclined
rift
paradigm
22. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
transient
palliate
dynamo
undermine
23. An invocation of evil a curse
imprecation
pedestrian
homiletics
stint
24. Government ruled by old people
entice
trudge
gerontocracy
concur
25. Fluent
concoct
prevalent
voluble
stigmatize
26. Warm and sincere
repast
bigot
cordial
ingenuous
27. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
ruddy
apotheosis
spurious
detraction
28. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
hypocrisy
antithetical
gossamer
ostracism
29. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
supercilious
insensible
implacable
renowned
30. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
precursors
travesty
encapsulate
infuse
31. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
luminary
disconcert
esoteric
glean
32. Person who eats a lot
placate
equipoise
emaciate
trencherman
33. Polloi the masses the rabble
hoi
specious
fidget
dud
34. Slow way of speaking
repel
entangle
drawl
prevalent
35. Noisy and rough
fawn
mendacity
implacable
blatant
36. Food for horses and cattle
retard
wend
curriculum
forage
37. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
quiescence
superimpose
whimsical
baleful
38. Weariness tiredness
expiation
lassitude
redeem
serrated
39. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
quirk
jabber
variegate
sanctimony
40. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
reprobate
recitals
equivocal
prosaic
41. Spending using unwillingly
covert
stingy
deferential
churl
42. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
gorge
scurvy
restive
prevalent
43. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
diatribe
subsume
slate
aspersion
44. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
Palpable
cordon
lien
flax
45. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
propinquity
duplicity
anguish
detraction
46. Repayment death of Jesus
evoke
atonement
prodigal
phlegmatic
47. Brave
pivotal
shard
fervid
valorous
48. Person who has been converted to a belief
neophyte
noxious
vigorous
perjury
49. Cruel killing of a large number of people
pied
massacre
putrefaction
vigilant
50. Worry irritation wear away
fret
sycophant
cling
jagged