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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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1. Put pour fill
petrify
submerge
infuse
perjury
2. Make morally bad corrupt
precepts
deprave
exhaustive
eschew
3. Punishment
iconoclast
blatant
chastisement
fission
4. Meticulous
alcove
epiphany
punctilious
calumny
5. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
derision
penury
censure
impute
6. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
beatify
limp
plea
plaintive
7. Misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
malapropism
fervor
tassel
reiterate
8. Voracious devouring
connoisseur
edacious
heterogeneous
aleck
9. Lying; habitually dishonest
mendacious
obdurate
console
centurion
10. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
taut
rueful
bequest
astute
11. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
forestall
puissance
embellish
tadpole
12. Extreme astounding
graze
intersperse
sublime
correlate
13. Showing scorn or reproach
volubility
opprobrious
rejuvenation
retinue
14. Feeling sleepy half asleep
suppliant
drowsiness
fetter
denouement
15. To cause to adhere - as with glue
consummate
berate
tamp
agglutinate
16. Warmth of feelings earnestness
fervor
abrogate
endearing
hauteur
17. (person) with superior tastes
florid
mince
pine
highbrow
18. Rough awkward
arduous
uncouth
bellicose
cordial
19. To roam wander freely
covetous
expatiate
stigma
efface
20. Situated beyond
qualm
superfluous
extinct
ulterior
21. Keep the memory of
commemorate
plod
meretricious
scorch
22. Smell (especially pleasant)
scent
gauche
covetous
massacre
23. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
enzyme
fallacious
forestall
defalcate
24. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
clientele
reprobate
heretic
haughty
25. Taste flavor something
savor
taunt
valiant
didactic
26. Easy-going trifle
provident
lionize
unencumbered
raconteur
27. Accustomed to adapted
synopsis
inasmuch
inured
glib
28. Conquer
console
astringent
indulgent
vanquish
29. Make tight or smaller
mercurial
philistine
constrict
veracity
30. To darken make obscure muddle
equable
obfuscate
ferret
seminal
31. Talkative garrulous
loquacious
presumption
lampoon
dangle
32. Difficult to comprehend obscure
abstruse
laudatory
obdurate
coalescing
33. Feeling doubt
abeyance
sinuous
sere
dubious
34. Quick hurried
recluse
preclude
cursory
console
35. Compel
constrain
recompense
aloof
bandy
36. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
accolade
rueful
precursors
abjure
37. Physical beauty
guile
pulchritude
pique
endearing
38. Pure faultless
deprave
punctilious
immaculate
serration
39. Greatly surprised
dissemble
nonplused
plunge
dissolution
40. Fearful timid afraid
splenetic
timorous
sluggard
impervious
41. A group or band of people
flimsy
indigence
cohort
inveterate
42. Complex
sullied
adamant
barrage
involute
43. Keep away from avoid
raffish
shun
ferment
fustian
44. Traveling about wandering
peregrination
philistine
irresolute
alleviate
45. Certain inevitable
ineluctable
crease
hollow
maul
46. Native
vacuity
frenetic
indigenous
pillage
47. Refuse to approve of
crush
vehemence
discountenance
superimpose
48. Depth
jabber
gust
profundity
cajole
49. Haughtiness
stride
hauteur
propinquity
ferment
50. Gather facts in small quantities
spurn
coeval
glean
egress