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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Obvious
hone
cling
Palpable
baleful
2. Existing in a wild or untamed state
irksome
feral
foil
glimmer
3. Get something inquire too curiously
pry
gust
somersault
incongruous
4. Put something on the top
denigrate
machination
superimpose
rumple
5. Disguised
covert
acclaimed
thrift
sheath
6. Person who stirs up war
glib
privation
warmonger
quixotic
7. Obstruct/frustrate
inclined
thwart
burgeon
palliate
8. Spread through every part of
pervade
recant
inchoate
aberration
9. Hot enough to boil
grouse
augury
lampoon
scalding
10. Abusive language curses
invective
grandiloquent
incipient
benevolence
11. Fearful timid afraid
elaborate
trite
timorous
sanguine
12. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
savor
crush
snub
coy
13. Make a lower bid then somebody else
underbid
striated
cajole
snub
14. Immoral person
stolid
libertine
foible
canvass
15. Flood cover by overflowing
bequest
oblivious
inundate
obviate
16. Greenish-blue precious stone
turquoise
sadastic
raconteur
doggerel
17. Witness/evidence
pariah
temperance
testiness
feint
18. A quack remedy an untested cure
nostrum
prosaic
clamor
bolster
19. To delight or entertain to feast
regale
obtrusive
fervor
calumny
20. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
obloquy
inclined
fixate
shrewd
21. Hatred being an enemy
vituperate
soar
asterisk
enmity
22. Scold sharply
liberality
hallow
irresolute
berate
23. Courageous high-spirited
appease
mettlesome
loquacious
stifled
24. Walk heavily
nostrum
trudge
infuriate
prevalent
25. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
bequest
rarefy
spear
froward
26. Skeptical unwilling to believe
curtail
rumple
incredulous
rabble
27. Member of a vigilance committee
vigilant
connoisseur
ossify
odious
28. Burden things that get on the way of
transitory
cursory
encumbrance
upbraid
29. Uncommunicativeness
sermon
reticence
astringent
officious
30. Too eager to obey or serve
quack
suppress
obsequious
decry
31. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
thwart
submerge
introspection
purvey
32. Varied motley greatly diversified
multifarious
rivet
concoct
enzyme
33. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
diaphanous
debacle
dwarf
34. Bad-tempered person
nonplused
benevolence
profligate
churl
35. In the highest degree
coerce
arrant
tortuous
evoke
36. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
fidelity
maudlin
pious
endearing
37. Make a humble petition to
derogatory
supplicate
adamant
temperate
38. Making unpure poorer in quality
adulteration
chastened
endorse
turbid
39. Too economical miserly
glimmer
chisel
parsimonious
torment
40. Childish
veracity
garner
fetid
puerile
41. Fill with fury or rage
infuriate
refractory
feint
allegiance
42. Persevering
gallant
sedulous
neophyte
complaisance
43. Rising of people to open resistance to
pariah
servile
prolix
insurrection
44. Repayment death of Jesus
demagogue
atonement
nebulous
renowned
45. Sweetly flowing
sullied
bellicose
lachrymose
mellifluous
46. State of doubt or perplexity
salacious
credulity
quandary
coruscate
47. Being uncertain hesitating
scribble
purvey
aspersion
vacillation
48. To bring about
Conduce
disingenuous
pest
imperviousness
49. Of the same period coexisting
hermetic
perpetrate
coeval
recondite
50. Too strong to be defeated
corroboration
invincible
alleviate
servile