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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
english
,
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. Cast or fashion anew
writ
fracas
recast
sagacious
2. Imminent being about to happen expected
bewilder
shun
reticent
impending
3. Obscene
anguish
salacious
squat
rubicund
4. Skill (esp. in handling)
feral
pious
reproach
dexterity
5. Stir up excite
emote
propitiatory
substantiation
haughty
6. Blessing
rivet
ignoble
blase
benison
7. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
insensible
divestiture
cognizant
sagacious
8. Get to the end of
sycophant
consume
rant
felicitous
9. To hesitate raise objections
demur
covetous
superfluous
foment
10. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
pine
forestall
condense
drowsiness
11. To mark with different shade or colors
tautology
epithet
variegate
reticent
12. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
extinct
proliferate
officious
rant
13. Use until none remains
severance
proliferate
deplete
scabbard
14. Unresisting submissive
wile
desiccant
resigned
imminent
15. Gather facts in small quantities
glean
prudence
intransigent
introspection
16. Doubtful uncertain
surcharge
proliferate
ambiguous
fracas
17. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conceit
discredit
drawl
valorous
18. Merry person
macerate
veneer
garble
wag
19. Reproving a person for his faults
condense
maul
sermon
gnaw
20. Disown refuse to accept or pay
repudiate
smolder
regicide
conjoin
21. Unlucky
simper
encomium
abdication
hapless
22. Place here and there
eulogy
intersperse
admonitory
peccadillo
23. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
pernicious
chastisement
lavish
poignant
24. Getting farther apart from a point
derogatory
divergence
prodigal
earthenware
25. Dismal - mourful
doleful
occluded
ruddy
imperviousness
26. Greenish-blue precious stone
hew
stride
imperious
turquoise
27. Make (pain) easier to bear
truce
presentiment
alleviate
evoke
28. Smell favor reputation
elicit
unscathed
idolatry
odor
29. Trying to please; obliging
dynamo
inquest
complaisant
mien
30. Arrangement to give something at death
slack
prodigal
bequest
scribble
31. Wandering
desultory
trifling
penchant
peripatetic
32. Bunch of threads
pith
stanch
stray
tassel
33. Wrinkle
punctilious
pucker
parsimonious
pervade
34. To chastise correct by punishing
pyre
castigate
scalding
grumble
35. Varied motley greatly diversified
multifarious
surcharge
evince
toady
36. Waste away through sorrow or illness
encapsulate
pine
perfidious
dud
37. Receding
divestiture
rueful
blandness
retrograde
38. Exercises to develop strong bodies
reticent
preclude
alleviate
calisthenics
39. Being fully aware of
coalescing
dulcet
cognizant
evasive
40. Affirm something to be true
scorch
aver
shun
pivotal
41. Forgive
condone
cursory
placate
cravat
42. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
tadpole
indolence
liberality
cower
43. Person who eats a lot
sullied
voluble
rebus
trencherman
44. Eager and cheerful readiness
simper
alacrity
abacus
propitiatory
45. Person much smaller the usual size
dwarf
ostentation
insularity
idyll
46. Be unsteady and overturn
heretic
topple
dubious
precepts
47. Giving facts to support (statement)
substantiation
deviance
disallow
frantic
48. Lucky stroke
lassitude
salubrious
fluke
testiness
49. Formal reception/embankment
discreet
levee
profuse
suffice
50. Act of preaching
homiletics
cordial
skiff
importune