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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.
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. Propriety properness
decorum
punitive
remonstrate
veritable
2. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ebullient
unscathed
prune
timid
3. Native
indigenous
presentiment
levee
cumbersome
4. Soothe pacify calm
intransigent
disingenuous
placate
stingy
5. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
gush
goad
consequential
rebus
6. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
lope
pernicious
negligent
ignominious
7. Artificial obstacle built across a river
gossamer
encapsulate
barrage
surcharge
8. Get something inquire too curiously
expostulate
pry
wince
perilous
9. Secret with a hidden meaning
duplicity
disparate
cryptic
pluck
10. Free giving generosity
impute
liberality
raffish
occluded
11. Small boat
derivative
austere
skiff
plunge
12. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
whimsical
skiff
delineate
affinity
13. Silly senseless
equable
imminent
inane
denouement
14. Make tight or smaller
constrict
hubris
colander
foil
15. Humorous funny jocular
vivacious
facetious
duplicity
pucker
16. Make or become stiff and solid
provoke
edacious
aver
congeal
17. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
mendicant
presumption
facile
18. Get to the root of
foil
cloture
propagation
plumb
19. Pretend
mollify
efface
feint
desiccant
20. Bunch of threads
drawl
salvage
pertain
tassel
21. Try to avoid by sophistication
articulate
quibble
gist
blandishment
22. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
embellish
reprobate
travesty
coalescing
23. A loud domineering woman a scold or nag
turbulence
spurn
implicate
virago
24. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
conciliatory
beguile
expiation
centurion
25. Effete no longer fertile worn out
didactic
ascend
acarpous
flaunting
26. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
morose
castigation
flamboyant
27. Harmful or unfriendly
inimical
disinter
conceal
Conduce
28. Forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
trenchant
prevalent
noisome
intrepid
29. Irritable easily angered
fulsome
aggravate
deprecate
irascible
30. A number of performance of music
ruddy
impassive
belligerent
recitals
31. Strong inclination a liking
shun
paradigm
taciturn
penchant
32. Stupid fellow
dolt
philistine
maverick
console
33. Warm and sincere
cordial
forage
chisel
euthanasia
34. Reserved; indifferent
vigilance
aloof
hoi
disheveled
35. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
abscond
extrovert
perjury
benign
36. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
cogitate
ignoble
maverick
37. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
quaff
berate
florid
procrastination
38. Difficult to comprehend obscure
abstruse
alleviate
foolproof
gouge
39. Having both of two contrary meanings
ambivalent
iconoclast
tarnished
voluble
40. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
alacrity
argot
gossamer
41. Of the power of forming a solution
regicide
dwarf
figurehead
solvent
42. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
entreat
apropos
foment
putrefaction
43. Sparkle
maudlin
coruscate
scurvy
prim
44. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
wag
transitory
resilience
trite
45. Pale yellow (hair) a plant
extirpate
levity
vehemence
flax
46. Fearful timid afraid
timorous
piquant
salubrious
dilate
47. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
plod
virago
adorn
undermine
48. Seeming appearing as such professed
sundry
ostensible
serrated
aversion
49. Alarm excited state of mind
ineffable
churl
redoubtable
trepidation
50. Put into difficulties
entangle
strive
embellish
lope