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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. Incapable of failure or error
enervate
mischievous
foolproof
argot
2. Inclination
oblivious
dulcet
apprehensive
proclivity
3. To clear from a charge of guilt
sluggard
exculpate
disseminate
flimsy
4. Short piece of humorous writing
hack
skit
fission
revere
5. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
abhor
infuriate
beguile
bedizen
6. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
conceit
abate
effrontery
mundane
7. To be involved
obviate
approbation
implicate
ambivalent
8. Reproving a person for his faults
quotidian
flaunting
sermon
encomium
9. Trivial poorly constructed verse
vagary
doggerel
soggy
audacious
10. Beginning
wanton
incipient
salutary
engulf
11. Haughty arrogant commanding
hoax
forestall
imperviousness
perfidy
12. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
umbrage
curmudgeon
sophistry
extinguish
13. No use person something that fails
highbrow
dud
steeply
sagacious
14. Person who tells anecdotes
platitude
iconoclast
raconteur
boisterous
15. Call calling of names
reverent
cordial
implicit
roll
16. Frantic frenzied
collusion
deferential
frenetic
misogynist
17. Witness/evidence
sublime
eradicate
testiness
pivotal
18. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
rumple
effluvia
incorrigibility
variegate
19. Postpone
flak
approbation
lucubrate
defer
20. Make nervous or confused
mellifluous
ineffable
feckless
fluster
21. Self-controlled
provident
morbid
garble
sober
22. Free giving generosity
pique
liberality
perfunctory
massacre
23. To be stained or discredited
doleful
sullied
vilify
impervious
24. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
perfunctory
insularity
tamp
inadvertent
25. Try to avoid by sophistication
grovel
retrograde
bedizen
quibble
26. Wishing to do evil
malevolence
irate
dwarf
mince
27. Long strip worn round the waist
sash
saturnine
Conduce
coy
28. Bending twisting
equipoise
cogitate
lithe
subsume
29. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
profuse
finical
aversion
didactic
30. To make holy consecrate
hallow
consternation
rubicund
idyll
31. Majestic venerable
libertine
verve
patron
august
32. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
forfeit
skit
placate
ingenuous
33. Beat hard
tyro
introvert
facile
belabor
34. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
regicide
disingenuous
convoluted
indelible
35. Tiring because too long
provoke
savor
prolix
congeal
36. Commanding haughty arrogant
stickler
empirical
lumber
imperious
37. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
abraded
effluvia
blase
lavish
38. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
stymie
sporadic
calipers
austere
39. Steel tool for shaping materials
relapse
recant
philistine
chisel
40. Statement that damages reputation
desultory
squalid
trudge
libel
41. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
ingenuous
lavish
repel
obtrusive
42. Commonplace trite unremarkable
pedestrian
maverick
shrewd
petrified
43. Cause produce give rise to
Conduce
qualm
engender
crease
44. Meticulous
malign
requite
heed
punctilious
45. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
impute
floe
substantiation
46. Tiresome
concoct
aver
irksome
disparate
47. To darken make obscure muddle
warrant
reconcile
obfuscate
harrow
48. Asking humbly beseeching
extinct
suppliant
approbation
yeoman
49. Become quiet or less active
lull
haughty
earthenware
cadge
50. Walk heavily
treacherous
recast
salubrious
trudge