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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. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
quixotic
salubrious
slack
dynamo
2. Person who travels regularly
concoct
dissent
commuter
calisthenics
3. Biting sarcastic
sluggard
astute
augury
caustic
4. Too eager to obey or serve
distrait
pliant
prim
obsequious
5. Frame with balls for calculating
clot
massacre
abacus
dilate
6. State of being balanced
turquoise
equilibrium
turbid
connotation
7. To frequently visit
ignoble
interim
protracted
resort
8. Of connected with trees
infuse
arboreal
coax
arabesque
9. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
fledged
dawdler
plaintive
repel
10. Leather case for a pistol
holster
asterisk
cavalcade
refine
11. Act of preaching
wile
trite
nonchalant
homiletics
12. Not soled with hole
hollow
provident
irrevocable
slur
13. Make morally bad corrupt
opprobrious
derivative
renowned
deprave
14. Poverty
indigence
forage
stride
shunt
15. Healthful
salubrious
tarnished
dainty
blase
16. Provide supply
soporific
purvey
slake
savant
17. Of great importance (others depend on it)
laudatory
mesmerize
pivotal
incense
18. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
misanthrope
contentious
coddle
plaque
19. Sparkle
upbraid
involute
perish
coruscate
20. Sweet-smelling
engulf
denouement
salacious
fragrant
21. Stone used for sharpening tools
rave
hone
macerate
calumny
22. To cut out cut away
engrossing
detumescence
exscind
gourmand
23. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
floe
petrous
refractory
connote
24. Striped grooved or banded
striated
profuse
heterogeneous
squander
25. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
subsume
figurehead
fulsome
vigilance
26. Stare at
odium
fixate
terse
equilibrium
27. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
chauvinist
bequest
quiescence
dereliction
28. Suppress subdue
quell
wanton
commodious
weigh
29. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
disingenuous
heterogeneous
perspicacity
benison
30. Temporary fleeting
deter
ferocity
transient
trifling
31. Make nervous or confused
fluster
fervid
obtain
precursory
32. Outside the law
ecumenical
malign
interdict
extralegal
33. Responsilibilty -burden
palliate
divulge
onus
forage
34. Lively high-spirited
earthenware
abstruse
incongruous
vivacious
35. Incapable of being discovered or understood
inscrutable
obstreperous
grouse
vestige
36. Slander aspersion
obstreperous
calumny
correlate
recitals
37. Doubtful uncertain
ambiguous
espouse
complaisant
disconcert
38. Bad-tempered person
qualm
curmudgeon
peccadillo
mendicant
39. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
bigot
deviance
ascend
irresolute
40. Unimportant
dud
reverent
invincible
trifling
41. Like a slave lacking independence
ingest
profligacy
servile
renowned
42. Having a toothed edge
dissolution
serration
beatify
pivotal
43. Get to know
piquant
ponderous
ascertain
scalding
44. Well-suited; quick-witted
obtain
submerge
drone
apt
45. Heavy with water
ignoble
evoke
soggy
jocular
46. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
decry
picaresque
occluded
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
47. Obvious
curmudgeon
Palpable
repast
grumble
48. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
scribble
covert
recondite
impervious
49. Plunder (especially in war)
somatic
ineptitude
pillage
heresy
50. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
august
irresolute
hoax
welter