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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Strong dislike
inured
animosity
detumescence
nibble
2. Greenish-blue precious stone
turquoise
rave
rotund
recast
3. Omen marvelous threatening
quell
edible
morbid
portent
4. To show clearly to indicate
plunge
pertain
evince
trifling
5. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
soggy
ignominious
officious
salutary
6. Shout complain with a lot of noise
insouciant
clamor
recitals
adamant
7. Likely to come or happen soon
soot
harrow
imminent
scorch
8. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
credulous
intransigence
paradigm
valorous
9. Line (of police acting as a guard)
cordon
dynamo
efficacy
detumescence
10. Burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
morbid
presumption
cumbersome
distrait
11. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
beatify
bereft
pristine
pith
12. Relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
recidivism
infuse
slur
inept
13. Eager/excited
agog
fluster
lurk
derogatory
14. Break off
supine
privation
forbearance
sever
15. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
indulgent
baneful
falter
frenetic
16. To remove obscenity purify censor
insinuate
disseminate
covert
expurgate
17. Hurt by rough handling
maul
equanimity
rant
dud
18. Not paying proper attention
intransigent
toady
malinger
inadvertent
19. Worldly having contempt for God
heed
profane
torment
deprecate
20. Disintegration looseness in morals
lachrymose
malign
dissolution
stygian
21. Shameless immorality
profligacy
broach
middling
repudiate
22. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
dainty
yarn
abysmal
adamant
23. Brutal racial discrimination
illicit
apartheid
reticent
holster
24. Patience willingness to wait
forbearance
intrepid
foray
sanity
25. Hairy shaggy
decorum
hirsute
equivocal
wile
26. Provide supply
thwart
purvey
maul
divergence
27. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
precursory
woo
secular
flak
28. Calmness of temperament
hoi
exscind
matriculation
equanimity
29. Upset the self-possession of
pernicious
balk
disconcert
pied
30. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
tenacity
puerile
astringent
somatic
31. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
sententious
prevaricate
fission
inane
32. Trap
snare
loll
teetotal
forge
33. Ask earnestly
occluded
squander
entreat
ascribe
34. Scold sharply
deplete
discrete
berate
reactionary
35. Border on
abysmal
misogynist
delineate
abut
36. Unlucky
turbulence
hapless
spear
irrevocable
37. Lower the quality weaken the strength
vitiate
tenuous
acclaimed
berate
38. Compel to force to make obedient
abscond
graze
coerce
taunt
39. Forgive
tadpole
cornucopia
bogus
condone
40. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
profligate
austere
prudish
simper
41. Being bright polished
obfuscate
clamor
sagacious
lustrous
42. Disapprove of
severance
onerous
irrevocable
decry
43. Getting farther apart from a point
colander
glib
bilge
divergence
44. Humorous funny jocular
truce
dissemble
feckless
facetious
45. A very small amount - portion - or particle
deposition
procrastination
mite
umbrage
46. Calm and peaceful
quirk
endearing
tangential
halcyon
47. To favor or approve of
depredation
countenance
invincible
empirical
48. Make or become soft by soaking in water
hoodwink
macerate
terse
constrain
49. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
gouge
corroboration
warmonger
obtain
50. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
imperviousness
misanthrope
censure
summarily