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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. Cessation of use disuse
picaresque
desuetude
ensconce
proliferate
2. Agree in opinion happen together
salutary
exigency
perjury
concur
3. Rubbed off worn away by friction
disinter
cajole
abraded
pied
4. Uncommunicativeness
reticence
onus
conspicuous
pristine
5. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
quail
ascetic
entice
flax
6. Not new
aplomb
shard
trite
vitriolic
7. Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
agile
superfluous
colander
idolatry
8. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
apartheid
nibble
daunt
hypocrisy
9. Course of study
curriculum
trudge
dupe
coerce
10. Too great a readiness to believe things
inimitable
credulity
arabesque
warmonger
11. Provide supply
purvey
flinch
irate
imperative
12. Sweetly flowing
rebus
arrogance
extenuate
mellifluous
13. Trouble disturbance
shun
turmoil
supersede
rebus
14. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
sycophant
vivacious
breach
officious
15. Health of mind soundness of judgment
pivotal
loll
sanity
elegy
16. Formidable causing fear
complaisant
denouement
temerity
redoubtable
17. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
equipoise
splice
idyll
strut
18. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
conviction
connoisseur
peremptory
chaste
19. To be involved
nebulous
insipid
dearth
implicate
20. To complain
libertine
extrovert
grumble
punitive
21. Treat with contempt
bewilder
snub
arduous
rebuff
22. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
travesty
frantic
recast
pristine
23. Sheath for the blade
lachrymose
stentorian
scabbard
heretic
24. A lament a melancholy composition
temperance
encomium
elegy
undulate
25. Prayer
orison
indefatigability
nadir
cajole
26. Keep away from avoid
forage
seminal
acumen
shun
27. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
coy
chisel
pest
heretic
28. Urgent essential
ambivalent
rave
lament
imperative
29. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
barren
sundry
wanton
heresy
30. Artificial obstacle built across a river
nostrum
acumen
barrage
grouse
31. Arrogant conceited
inchoate
haughty
spurious
repulsive
32. To solicit customers - votes - or patronage
forfeit
toady
tout
acclaimed
33. Kind of stone inflexible
adamant
abate
profane
condone
34. Abusive language curses
defer
invective
grumble
castigation
35. Without preparation or forethought
flax
equanimity
secular
offhand
36. Dethronement depositing
deposition
forestall
gnaw
emote
37. Arrogant pride
odor
hubris
avid
cantankerous
38. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
connote
cornucopia
bewilder
encomium
39. To make holy consecrate
supercilious
arrogance
hallow
refractory
40. Person who loves wealth and spends little
miser
foment
synopsis
assail
41. Coming together and uniting into one substance
quibble
irksome
glib
coalescing
42. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
nostrum
superfluous
impute
pusillanimous
43. Like a rock hard stony
flax
obdurate
petrous
rebuff
44. Without use result conceited
irrevocable
vain
lassitude
middling
45. Cause produce give rise to
macerate
baleful
moderation
engender
46. Easily understood lucid clear
endemic
luculent
aseptic
molt
47. Workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
sordid
reminiscent
impugned
forge
48. Greedy (esp for money)
implosion
brazen
paradigm
rapacious
49. Ready and smooth but not sincere
trudge
extrovert
glib
dubious
50. Overcome bring under control
debacle
subdue
severance
bequest