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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. Of mixed colors
flaunting
corporeal
pied
profane
2. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
pristine
irresolute
unscathed
reproach
3. Unoriginal obtained from another source
derivative
laudatory
droll
dolt
4. State of being passive/motionless
squalid
suffocate
quiescence
benevolence
5. Make known something secret
stickler
lull
divulge
pariah
6. Way out exit
egress
rivet
lackluster
ponderous
7. Agreeably pungent stimulating
aplomb
supersede
pine
piquant
8. Offensive disgusting (smell)
noisome
idolatry
abraded
raffish
9. Eager; greedy
beatify
avid
austere
perpetrate
10. Irritable easily angered
luculent
irascible
alacrity
sanctimony
11. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
abut
fulsome
prosaic
valorous
12. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
inimical
wile
undermine
engrave
13. Praise approval
peccadillo
accolade
penchant
coy
14. Tending to evade
pitfall
evasive
machination
impermeable
15. Likely to come or happen soon
onus
imminent
proscribe
agile
16. Suggestion in addition to
connotation
indolence
brash
dawdler
17. Snub
rebuff
flinch
shrill
eddy
18. Worry irritation wear away
temperance
inclined
fret
boorish
19. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
ruffian
esoteric
dilate
abdication
20. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
quirk
tadpole
tepid
nonchalant
21. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
suborn
ingest
eloquence
puerile
22. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
mellifluous
knit
jabber
egress
23. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
burnish
antidote
beguile
overhaul
24. Pure faultless
immaculate
harbinger
pine
pileous
25. Worldly having contempt for God
shunt
benefactor
profane
itinerate
26. Impress deeply
succumb
preclude
expiation
engrave
27. Authority written order guarantee
burgeon
inundate
warrant
countervail
28. Traveling about wandering
auspicious
peregrination
extinguish
subsume
29. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
lien
tamp
unscathed
volatile
30. Lacking solidarity - strength
flimsy
mien
wan
cantankerous
31. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
loll
extempore
bereft
finical
32. Of great importance (others depend on it)
pivotal
nibble
tepid
perfidious
33. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
propitious
pugnacious
Conduce
ambivalent
34. Corrosive; sarcastic
deluge
countenance
pique
vitriolic
35. Forgery
decry
counterfeit
turbulence
officious
36. Accustomed to adapted
perilous
rabble
discourse
inured
37. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
eddy
rebus
paucity
edacious
38. Use extravagant language
rant
turquoise
undermine
obfuscate
39. Self-controlled
accolade
sanity
sober
pied
40. Make nervous or confused
limn
fluster
countervail
commodious
41. To be involved
implicate
clinch
sanguine
discomfit
42. As an installment
squander
sanction
interim
neophyte
43. Sluggish dull not tight
slack
deferential
pitfall
dulcet
44. Complicated and embarrassing situation
ossify
heterogeneous
imbroglio
puissance
45. With attack violently
enigma
macabre
assail
presumption
46. Strong energetic
palpitate
vigorous
trite
aspersion
47. No use person something that fails
dud
reiterate
halcyon
weigh
48. Attractive on the surface but of little value
poignant
meretricious
figurehead
trickle
49. Distracted
prevaricate
dissent
distrait
hoi
50. Shameless immorality
interdict
luculent
profligacy
cumbersome