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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. Lose courage turn frightened
quail
contemn
petrify
oblivious
2. Dried plum silly person
foolproof
prune
neophyte
gallant
3. Fix take up secure metal pin
rivet
repudiate
dubious
abraded
4. Hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
pique
profane
expatiate
coalescing
5. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
attune
obdurate
eloquence
imperviousness
6. Much too high or great
dexterity
disinter
cadge
exorbitant
7. Discover and bring to light
unearth
mellifluous
meretricious
ascertain
8. Flattery coaxing
transgress
scribble
deposition
blandishment
9. Burn slowly without flame
temperate
whimsical
astringent
smolder
10. Open disobedience or resistance
soporific
curtail
ingest
defiance
11. Dig up from the earth
disinter
fidget
feckless
equanimity
12. Sharpness stinging quality
pungency
dogmatic
substantiation
stifled
13. Sentence within another one something separated
deposition
discourse
indefatigability
parenthesis
14. Crouch shrink back
cower
philanthropist
purvey
extrovert
15. Spend wastefully
sententious
jejune
exhaustive
squander
16. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
yeoman
embezzle
equanimity
hollow
17. Skeptical unwilling to believe
exorbitant
provoke
telltale
incredulous
18. Winding undulating serpentine
sinuous
parenthesis
waft
germane
19. Yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
palate
engender
quaff
brass
20. Insulting tending to damage
egress
derogatory
profundity
dormant
21. Receding
condense
retrograde
taunt
succumb
22. Admit; declare openly
regale
secular
avow
lope
23. Weak/unsteady light
countervail
glimmer
reiterate
vitiate
24. Not easily discouraged or subdued
frenetic
countenance
indomitable
hapless
25. Various miscellaneous separate
equivocate
sundry
reactionary
prodigious
26. Extremely pleasing to taste
prevalent
vanquish
tangential
ambrosial
27. Speak comprehensively become wider large
lull
wend
turbid
dilate
28. Soothe pacify calm
timorous
prevaricate
deprecate
placate
29. Black powder in smoke
engulf
benign
cajole
soot
30. Untidy
consume
calisthenics
underbid
disheveled
31. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
highbrow
ignominious
extol
animosity
32. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
frugal
impute
espouse
sophistry
33. Violent cruel man
duplicity
ruffian
profligate
volubility
34. Make (pain) easier to bear
edify
render
impetuous
alleviate
35. To favor or approve of
nonplused
countenance
dolt
liberality
36. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
maudlin
agile
reverent
forestall
37. Responsilibilty -burden
compunction
venal
onus
antidote
38. Forgive
wend
dawdler
condone
enduring
39. Belong as a part have reference
forbear
cant
pertain
turbid
40. Cessation of use disuse
desuetude
vindictive
anguish
reticence
41. Elegant refined in manners
moderation
bedizen
impediment
urbane
42. Being fully aware of
cornucopia
cognizant
serrated
tadpole
43. Wasteful reckless with money
correlate
prodigal
onerous
vacuity
44. Scold sharply
reticent
berate
figurehead
precepts
45. To be established accepted or customary
turgid
jejune
obtain
coeval
46. Without taste or flavor
insipid
contiguous
skit
expedient
47. As an installment
abdication
bewilder
quandary
interim
48. Physical of or for the body
wan
presumption
corporeal
atonement
49. Official duties
depredation
judicious
incumbents
incredulous
50. Narrow-mindedness isolated
insularity
blandness
puerile
requite