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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. Draw together unite firmly
engender
simper
knit
fallacious
2. Giving up control authority
subdue
abdication
legacy
fustian
3. Continue doing something without resting
insipid
salubrious
limp
plod
4. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
itinerate
supercilious
encapsulate
erratic
5. (of eyes) dull
approbation
divergence
gossamer
lackluster
6. Temporary fleeting
rebus
transient
flout
interim
7. Insubstantial flimsy weak
pungency
muffler
pucker
tenuous
8. Cruel killing of a large number of people
ostensible
dilate
eclat
massacre
9. That cannot be permeated
forage
ensign
impermeable
subpoena
10. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
severance
insurrection
dolt
scorch
11. Enthusiasm
ardor
repel
libertine
muffler
12. Relevant pertinent to
graze
verve
germane
aspersion
13. Quick changeable in character fleeting
ameliorate
endorse
mercurial
rueful
14. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
hoodwink
turbid
pine
goad
15. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
colander
vigilance
orison
overhaul
16. Small boat
skiff
buoyant
levity
goad
17. Strong convincing
esoteric
cogent
trifling
odious
18. Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
foil
flinch
shallow
colander
19. Large piece of cloth
poncho
ineluctable
profligate
somersault
20. Person much smaller the usual size
covetous
platitude
immaculate
dwarf
21. Without previous thought or preparation
vigilance
stickler
relapse
extempore
22. To turn away (from a habit)
wean
sluggard
grandiloquent
prodigious
23. To gather and save to store up
clinch
punitive
garner
profligacy
24. Lack of seriousness
levity
dirge
wanton
trickle
25. Repay give in return
cryptic
lachrymose
requite
duplicity
26. To make hard rocklike
aberration
chastisement
fringe
petrify
27. Flag/badge
perjury
lassitude
undermine
ensign
28. Confuse embarrass
drone
acumen
discomfit
recidivism
29. Exercises to develop strong bodies
impair
halcyon
calisthenics
simper
30. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
harbinger
partisan
subsume
ostensible
31. Astute showing sound judgement
spear
shrewd
equilibrium
prodigious
32. Witness/evidence
conundrum
travesty
mendicant
testiness
33. Personal mannerism
impromptu
coy
soot
idiosyncrasy
34. Make quiet or calm
inimitable
appease
calisthenics
picaresque
35. Too economical miserly
parsimonious
macabre
turquoise
plumb
36. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
argot
molt
jejune
strive
37. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
aggravate
dote
germane
pristine
38. Essentially different
sophisticated
disparate
attenuate
meretricious
39. Individually distinct
strut
discrete
descry
finical
40. Bitter and violent attack in words
diatribe
antidote
alleviate
penury
41. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
florid
effluvia
palatial
irksome
42. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
abscond
stymie
ponderous
precursors
43. Puzzle confuse
recalcitrant
ale
bewilder
consummate
44. Smell favor reputation
gossamer
effete
odor
diatribe
45. Tiring because too long
reticence
prolix
pernicious
ardor
46. Punishing
salacious
inveigh
punitive
gust
47. Write in scholarly fashion
plunge
onerous
slur
lucubrate
48. A group or band of people
cohort
ineluctable
eulogy
reciprocity
49. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
asterisk
consequential
pundit
extant
50. Make hard and without feeling
sere
imprecation
abhor
forfeit