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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. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
accrue
labyrinthine
abet
tout
2. Prevent from being known put an end to
pristine
suppress
spurn
breach
3. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
deter
negligent
tamper
propitiatory
4. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
recalcitrant
ail
conceit
condone
5. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
burgeon
somersault
salacious
fragile
6. State or put forward as a necessary condition
subsume
highbrow
stipulate
forfeit
7. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
pique
gorge
abet
pernicious
8. Take the whole attention - enslave
levity
expiation
enthral
exhaustive
9. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
hoax
turmoil
pariah
cloture
10. Workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
engrossing
intransigent
equanimity
forge
11. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
admonitory
tamp
apartheid
attune
12. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
dote
provisional
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
diatribe
13. Able to float light-hearted
august
accretion
ford
buoyant
14. Making dear or liked
brazen
heretic
topple
endearing
15. Ask earnestly
distrait
chastened
mundane
entreat
16. Burn slowly without flame
disingenuous
deplete
smolder
hubris
17. Way out exit
avow
egress
earthenware
wanton
18. Poor/stingy
transitory
deter
penurious
rumple
19. Savage cruelty
ferocity
ferret
idyll
ire
20. Having plenty of space for what is needed
morose
commodious
felicitous
hush
21. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
mince
forbearance
propinquity
lampoon
22. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
inveigh
supercilious
snare
abrogate
23. Attention/give notice to
abide
raffish
heed
thrift
24. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
judicious
extirpate
duress
coddle
25. Draw out
arrogance
reciprocity
pundit
elicit
26. Succession connected line of
sequence
veneer
misanthrope
lionize
27. Bequest or inheritance
garner
meticulous
legacy
upbraid
28. Have deep respect for
revere
foster
torment
permeate
29. Final and unalterable
irrevocable
subpoena
indefatigability
timorous
30. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
assiduous
turmoil
turgid
deprave
31. King of blue-grey stone propose criticize
roll
slate
shunned
revere
32. Imminent being about to happen expected
pundit
impending
consume
censure
33. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
narcissism
incongruous
prodigious
glib
34. A breakup overthrow sudden disaster
duplicity
debacle
submerge
reconcile
35. To distress create stress or torment
insouciant
bedizen
preternatural
harrow
36. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
asterisk
curmudgeon
onerous
beguile
37. Quality or condition of being sober
taciturn
sobriety
craven
guile
38. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
lull
incessant
preen
libel
39. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
efface
welter
multifarious
apprehensive
40. Perfect/make perfect/complete
veer
consummate
dulcet
pucker
41. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
feint
revere
welter
mundane
42. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
rarefy
palatial
dereliction
eschew
43. Dismal - mourful
glib
abate
homiletics
doleful
44. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
florid
torpid
aleck
buoyant
45. Beginning
pedestrian
abhor
onus
incipient
46. To make unnecessary get rid of
sinuous
arduous
predilection
obviate
47. Treat as a famous person
dereliction
lionize
pivotal
perilous
48. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
exploit
malinger
aberration
imprecation
49. Opening broken place breaking
detraction
augury
articulate
breach
50. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
foppish
pique
terse
spear