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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
arduous
plumb
didactic
quandary
2. Induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
suborn
impending
vain
orison
3. Wickedness shamefulness
intrepid
mite
ignoble
turpitude
4. A lament a melancholy composition
telltale
elegy
predominate
irresolute
5. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
quaff
multifarious
expostulate
boisterous
6. To roam wander freely
steeply
palliate
reconcile
expatiate
7. Large piece of cloth
arrogance
poncho
coddle
recant
8. Exuberance outburst of feeling
ebullience
trickle
gainsay
pyre
9. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
connote
garner
transient
sanction
10. Positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
fringe
discomfit
solvent
dogmatic
11. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
dissent
blandness
cogitate
vex
12. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
ingenuous
apprehensive
sordid
reticent
13. To assuage to satisfy allay
shun
slake
cordon
immutable
14. Taste flavor something
stray
scent
quiescence
savor
15. Well-suited; quick-witted
laudatory
petrous
apt
irascible
16. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
precepts
atonement
intransigence
console
17. Ridicule mockery deriding
shunt
derision
fulmination
disencumber
18. Rising or falling sharply
discreet
steeply
stride
severance
19. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
edible
sophomoric
reciprocity
inferno
20. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
extort
ruddy
germane
officious
21. Made up of different kinds
colander
abraded
garrulous
heterogeneous
22. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
tamper
expostulate
fetter
punitive
23. Upset the self-possession of
tadpole
sullied
disconcert
impiety
24. Crime of killing a king
incredulous
ostensible
secular
regicide
25. Carved image on the prow of a ship
harrow
warrant
figurehead
avid
26. Interfere with
stickler
tamper
chastened
travesty
27. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
superfluous
thrift
hew
propinquity
28. Little known abstruse
recondite
Conduce
temperance
erudite
29. Strength
equilibrium
dynamo
jibe
puissance
30. Looking ill - not bright
wan
discern
terse
regale
31. Sealed by fusion
profane
constrain
presage
hermetic
32. Refrain from be patient ancestor
morose
forbear
tassel
fallacious
33. Process of burning
incongruous
endearing
combustion
suffocate
34. (of eyes) dull
lucubrate
constrict
lackluster
sash
35. Bring into harmony
euphoria
recant
attune
suborn
36. Causing tears tearful
spurious
roll
expatiate
lachrymose
37. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
harrow
approbation
boorish
molt
38. Kind of stone inflexible
cogitate
puerile
adamant
agile
39. The saving of property from loss
emaciate
luculent
salvage
plethora
40. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
euthanasia
satiate
extol
slur
41. Inclined to indulge
quibble
indulgent
proscribe
calisthenics
42. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
paean
derision
eddy
acarpous
43. Without use result conceited
astringent
enzyme
wean
vain
44. Food for horses and cattle
tawdry
forage
limn
fulmination
45. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
exploit
eradicate
covetous
incise
46. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
bask
skiff
counterfeit
fission
47. To entangle the state of affairs
cognizant
labyrinthine
fervor
nibble
48. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
overhaul
refine
fatuous
ebullient
49. Wish or activity in doing good
benevolence
gouge
tenacity
abeyance
50. Cheerful confident optimistic
indefatigability
distraught
avid
sanguine