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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.
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. Move restlessly make nervous
perspicacity
enigma
fidget
volubility
2. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
yeoman
deter
propitious
collusion
3. End (a debt) by setting aside money
amortize
craven
bogus
quail
4. Go or come up
commemorate
ascend
voluptuous
bellicose
5. Stinking
discredit
fetid
soar
inane
6. Speech lecture
fulmination
augury
garrulous
discourse
7. Yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
brass
odor
muffler
pernicious
8. Shameless immorality
ineluctable
dissemble
profligacy
vindictive
9. Polite and friendly
voluble
hirsute
affable
diaphanous
10. Wretched comfortless contemptible
renovate
sordid
vagary
infuriate
11. Calm not capable of being excited
petrified
consume
woo
imperturbable
12. Counterbalance
countervail
chauvinist
valiant
rubicund
13. Strange act or idea
vagary
gauche
sash
wend
14. Greatly surprised
indistinct
nonplused
cogent
defer
15. Becoming young in nature or appearance
alleviate
frugal
rejuvenation
pristine
16. Person guilty of murder
cavalcade
libertine
felon
attenuate
17. Little known abstruse
reprobate
transitory
retrospective
recondite
18. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
peremptory
verdant
ruddy
rivet
19. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
incredulous
virago
poncho
temperance
20. One who hates women/females
derivative
dainty
deluge
misogynist
21. A supporting bar
striated
implacable
strut
drone
22. Irritable easily angered
wanton
rancorous
irresolute
irascible
23. Obvious
sanction
Palpable
supplicate
unscathed
24. Self-confidence
waffle
aplomb
treacherous
recant
25. Jesting
provisional
catalyst
droll
edible
26. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
gush
entreat
clamor
tepid
27. Frame with balls for calculating
cordon
impudent
expostulate
abacus
28. Likely to come or happen soon
trudge
tamper
coruscate
imminent
29. Responsilibilty -burden
condense
fluster
sheath
onus
30. Brief and to the point
covetous
paean
meticulous
terse
31. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
muffler
harbinger
subsume
embellish
32. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
evasive
stymie
mollify
molt
33. Perfect/make perfect/complete
irresolute
commemorate
consummate
gregarious
34. Greedy (esp for money)
untoward
rapacious
germane
lurk
35. To hate to detest
abhor
combustion
adulteration
enthral
36. Accustomed to adapted
mellifluous
apropos
inured
rebus
37. Walk heavily
trudge
cavalcade
impiety
inured
38. Weariness tiredness
whimsical
strut
tangential
lassitude
39. Distracted violently upset in mind
pique
succumb
distraught
baleful
40. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
sponge
sycophant
equivocate
affable
41. Careful economical
lugubrious
fecund
frugal
delineate
42. Forgive
fledged
efface
condone
mendacious
43. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
lope
epiphany
antidote
hoax
44. Sound in judgment wise
judicious
flimsy
inept
refine
45. Violent cruel man
ruffian
harbinger
ameliorate
connotation
46. Contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
taunt
taciturn
dexterity
bellicose
47. Forcefulness
indigenous
serrated
vehemence
effete
48. Ending expiring
expiation
agglutinate
neophyte
efface
49. Bad-tempered irritable
inveigh
detraction
profuse
splenetic
50. Like a slave lacking independence
puissance
tassel
nonchalant
servile