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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. Dethronement depositing
deposition
brash
trickle
coruscate
2. Porous rubber for washing live at once expense
penury
sponge
recompense
exigency
3. Carved image on the prow of a ship
cling
figurehead
desuetude
fracas
4. Additional strengthening evidence
corroboration
duplicity
sordid
plod
5. Easily injured broken or destroyed
fragile
recitals
poignant
deter
6. Cheerful confident optimistic
consequential
epithet
sanguine
proclivity
7. Increasing the number spreading extending
calumny
paradigm
propagation
condense
8. Melodious harmonious
cravat
dulcet
aversion
impute
9. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
miser
flax
didactic
decree
10. That can be freed
coruscate
dearth
extricable
holster
11. Quality of being limited not extreme
congeal
hollow
succumb
moderation
12. One who hates women/females
voluptuous
euthanasia
misogynist
molt
13. Fearful timid afraid
timorous
harbinger
foster
intersperse
14. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
covert
turbid
temerity
refulgent
15. Mix combine unite societies
amalgamate
malleable
scribble
lurk
16. To cause to adhere - as with glue
stipple
agglutinate
endeavor
maverick
17. Short piece of humorous writing
skit
benison
cursory
seminal
18. Overcome bring under control
subdue
facetious
profligacy
indigenous
19. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
collusion
impudent
vehemence
calipers
20. Person who has been converted to a belief
hoax
umbrage
apprehensive
neophyte
21. Forcefulness
precursory
vehemence
combustion
endeavor
22. Menacing threatening
ebullience
wag
minatory
abraded
23. A quack remedy an untested cure
assail
frugal
nostrum
incongruous
24. Waste away bite steadily
berate
mulct
gnaw
streak
25. To venture
catalyst
foray
disdain
jabber
26. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
ineluctable
gorge
boggle
stipulate
27. Intended to instruct
streak
obviate
didactic
stymie
28. Prevent from carrying out contrast
foil
indolence
vex
redoubtable
29. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
argot
dissent
legacy
desuetude
30. Looking ill - not bright
impair
scent
exculpate
wan
31. Draw move back wince
flinch
repulsive
emaciate
plummet
32. Defying imitation unmatchable
inimitable
figurehead
drawl
prim
33. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
gust
grovel
chagrin
dulcet
34. Aud a person of something
overhaul
mulct
engender
extricable
35. Make worse irritate
flax
subdue
aggravate
picaresque
36. Worldly having contempt for God
droll
precarious
profane
depredation
37. Yield - die
feint
suffocate
foppish
succumb
38. Artificial obstacle built across a river
viscous
engender
barrage
incongruous
39. Having both of two contrary meanings
belligerent
ambivalent
liberality
timorous
40. Diligent hard-working sedulous
introspection
assiduous
bereft
broach
41. Display to obtain admiration or envy
mendacious
weigh
ostentation
divergence
42. Severe suffering
anguish
lucubrate
poncho
perjury
43. Adjective
flinch
stickler
epithet
repudiate
44. Make something (pain desire) less
assuage
ineffable
chicanery
plummet
45. Taking too little care
euthanasia
negligent
raconteur
stanch
46. Trap
lustrous
snare
barrage
bereft
47. Person who stirs up war
warmonger
imperious
accolade
extinguish
48. Cowardly craven
complaisant
libel
pusillanimous
clientele
49. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
vagary
benign
vehemence
streak
50. Pure
eulogy
beatify
incense
chaste