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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. State of doubt or perplexity
quandary
extinct
qualm
chary
2. Treachery breaking of faith
proliferate
perfidy
drone
hallow
3. Having a toothed edge
shun
savor
serrated
serration
4. Mischievous trick played to deceive
penchant
synopsis
imperviousness
hoax
5. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
reticence
importune
rapacious
edacious
6. Happening from time to time
inscrutable
sporadic
abysmal
bellicose
7. Quick changeable in character fleeting
germane
manacle
opprobrious
mercurial
8. Formal praise panegyric
inquest
hollow
eulogy
caustic
9. Untidy
disheveled
overweening
narcissism
solvent
10. Attract - lure
sporadic
vex
conspicuous
entice
11. Flattery coaxing
pine
antithetical
shunned
blandishment
12. Large piece of cloth
credulity
jagged
pest
poncho
13. Melodious harmonious
equanimity
crass
abdication
dulcet
14. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
evoke
vilify
ebullient
idyll
15. Sparkle
indefatigability
lassitude
coruscate
abet
16. Transparent easy to understand
nascent
introspection
effrontery
pellucid
17. Essentially different
rumple
quotidian
disparate
forswear
18. Demeanor
facetious
mundane
pivotal
mien
19. Bored with pleasure or dissipation
canvass
sedulous
blase
dearth
20. Calmness of temperament
obtain
equanimity
disinter
encomium
21. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
tout
pernicious
yarn
perish
22. Cautious wary
sequence
chary
combustion
jocular
23. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
defiance
partisan
felicitous
esoteric
24. To show clearly to indicate
evince
pernicious
turgid
eradicate
25. A lament a melancholy composition
profuse
consternation
shrewd
elegy
26. Causing a feeling of disgust
inchoate
plead
repulsive
rescind
27. Swallow up
expatiate
engulf
scurvy
inferno
28. Showing self-control
gainsay
temperate
holster
petrified
29. Enthusiasm
pileous
sluggard
ardor
ford
30. To resist separation
inadvertent
cling
apropos
shard
31. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
pugnacious
legacy
fatuous
topple
32. Gather facts in small quantities
glean
mundane
duress
disencumber
33. Sound in judgment wise
pernicious
judicious
impudent
discern
34. Make calmer or quieter
presage
malleable
mollify
impiety
35. Weak/unsteady light
plaintive
opaqueness
stray
glimmer
36. Trace or sign
jabber
ire
vestige
curtail
37. To venture
sobriety
foray
macerate
bewilder
38. Assistance relief in time of distress
astute
ulterior
dupe
succor
39. Odious (of crime)
untoward
heinous
homiletics
deprave
40. Effete no longer fertile worn out
acarpous
abraded
inveterate
feckless
41. Black powder in smoke
iconoclast
soot
supine
preen
42. Slander aspersion
calumny
mulct
baleful
prolix
43. Disintegration looseness in morals
partisan
dissolution
commuter
convoke
44. Attention/give notice to
adorn
peremptory
heed
ire
45. With attack violently
trenchant
resigned
assail
arrogance
46. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
susceptibility
dainty
reproach
avow
47. Not soled with hole
ineffable
flaunting
lachrymose
hollow
48. Like a slave lacking independence
vehemence
supplicate
servile
cursory
49. Star light-giving body
luminary
plea
excoriation
shunned
50. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
legacy
unearth
lope
conciliatory