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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
assail
extirpate
paradigm
insinuate
2. Easily injured broken or destroyed
warmonger
fragile
hallow
inane
3. Sad gloomy miserable
evasive
dismal
eschew
apartheid
4. Bad-tempered irritable
splenetic
ineptitude
incense
savant
5. Offense resentment
submerge
droll
muffler
umbrage
6. Showing respect
imminent
deferential
burnish
venal
7. Childish
tractable
puerile
clientele
extenuate
8. One who considers himself smarter than others
lavish
dwarf
aleck
epistle
9. Legal trickery/false argument
sophomoric
chicanery
droll
gouge
10. Order given by authority
inured
decree
implacable
baneful
11. Harmful causing mischief
ostentation
jibe
mischievous
impute
12. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
prone
brass
retrograde
levity
13. Drink deeply
hospitable
bask
connotation
quaff
14. Taste flavor something
ardor
flamboyant
tangential
savor
15. Outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
extricable
effluvia
discomfit
swerve
16. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
churlish
expiation
enmity
florid
17. A song of grief or lamentation
sting
extinct
jabber
dirge
18. Unconcerned carefree
heresy
forbearance
insouciant
euphoria
19. Additional strengthening evidence
corroboration
turpitude
impermeable
gainsay
20. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
loll
entice
recidivism
heresy
21. Patience willingness to wait
forbearance
sophisticated
rabble
guile
22. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
cabal
felicitous
stickler
sententious
23. Commanding haughty arrogant
imperious
cabal
vindictive
serration
24. Too strong to be defeated
invincible
endearing
cloture
fledged
25. Waver/move in an uncertain manner
succor
enthral
castigate
falter
26. Walk with long steps
dwarf
placate
feral
stride
27. Very great (es. stupidity)
crass
earthenware
incorrigibility
retrograde
28. One who turns towards himself
garble
alleviate
introvert
stipulate
29. Make a lower bid then somebody else
odor
drawl
underbid
alcove
30. State of being passive/motionless
correlate
resigned
quiescence
equipoise
31. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
officious
cower
voluptuous
sluggard
32. Try to win
woo
berate
tangential
cogent
33. Worsen diminish in value
impair
endorse
interim
epicurean
34. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
itinerate
cryptic
ossify
exploit
35. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
pivotal
plaintive
divergence
arduous
36. Person who is slow waste of time
pulchritude
dainty
dawdler
fecund
37. Favorable successful prosperous
connotation
auspicious
shrill
cloture
38. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
fatuous
susceptibility
shrill
benevolence
39. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
affable
venal
bedizen
elaborate
40. Kind of stone inflexible
poncho
adamant
ubiquitous
homiletics
41. Treat with contempt
sententious
rancorous
snub
florid
42. Restore something to better condition
discountenance
renovate
proscribe
mischievous
43. Physical beauty
pulchritude
acumen
molt
telltale
44. Crime of killing a king
viscous
maudlin
regicide
reticence
45. Statement that damages reputation
shard
arduous
emaciate
libel
46. Quality or condition of being sober
Conduce
sobriety
covert
felicitous
47. Gloomy dark sullen morose
garrulous
saturnine
sober
equilibrium
48. Blacken belittle sully defame
overhaul
mollify
denigrate
quail
49. Have deep respect for
revere
prolix
soar
dislodge
50. Flood cover by overflowing
punctilious
mulct
quixotic
inundate