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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. Slander
ferocity
aspersion
heterogeneous
assuage
2. Elegant refined in manners
broach
flout
remonstrate
urbane
3. Noisy loud
sullied
insouciant
dexterity
obstreperous
4. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
extenuate
stolid
petrify
corroboration
5. Able to fly trained experienced
ecumenical
fledged
acclaimed
foment
6. Take in by swallowing
ingest
stanch
sobriety
noxious
7. Preliminary anticipating
peripatetic
petrous
precursory
halcyon
8. Ending expiring
barren
commodious
peripatetic
expiation
9. Make tight or smaller
constrict
breach
stride
equanimity
10. To portray depict sketch out
delineate
condone
severance
espouse
11. Person guilty of murder
felon
petrous
animosity
fidget
12. Coming together and uniting into one substance
perpetrate
audacious
preponderance
coalescing
13. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
paean
beatify
chagrin
preternatural
14. In the highest degree
arrant
untoward
impending
tassel
15. Incapable of being discovered or understood
inscrutable
precepts
renovate
waft
16. Irritable easily angered
squalid
clinch
irascible
punitive
17. Break go beyond (a limit)
euthanasia
plummet
transgress
exculpate
18. Treat with contempt
negligent
baneful
equilibrium
snub
19. Bring into harmony
flaunting
implacable
ambidextrous
attune
20. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
skiff
shrewd
flak
froward
21. To turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
veneer
ossify
salvage
lithe
22. Unresisting submissive
fetter
torque
resigned
demagogue
23. To cause to adhere - as with glue
agglutinate
auxiliary
complaisance
lachrymose
24. Lose courage turn frightened
endorse
quail
ale
repudiate
25. Way out exit
hospitable
endearing
complaisant
egress
26. Looking ill - not bright
wan
partisan
articulate
ramify
27. Complex subtle refined
sophisticated
calipers
quibble
heinous
28. Bequest or inheritance
legacy
doleful
balk
imbroglio
29. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
idolatry
liberality
malleable
broach
30. Complicated and embarrassing situation
imbroglio
impermeable
disproof
engulf
31. Fearless brave undaunted
hermetic
whimsical
intrepid
shunt
32. Containing warning
affable
admonitory
treacherous
panegyric
33. Rise fly high
augury
odor
matriculation
soar
34. Inclined to fighting
pedantic
bellicose
hack
feud
35. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
precursors
redoubtable
truculence
introvert
36. Trivial poorly constructed verse
doggerel
sublime
brook
heterogeneous
37. A beginner
surcharge
tyro
putrefaction
orison
38. Obsequious flatterer
hew
stigmatize
ingest
toady
39. Pure
affinity
demur
chaste
coeval
40. Line (of police acting as a guard)
cordon
incise
ruddy
husk
41. Feeling sleepy half asleep
appease
drowsiness
treacherous
suborn
42. Wretched comfortless contemptible
agog
ignominious
vigorous
sordid
43. Warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
discern
Palpable
exigency
encomium
44. Trifling/worthless
perjury
oblivious
nugatory
matriculation
45. Make or become pure cultural
pundit
cognizant
subpoena
refine
46. Twisting force causing rotation
valorous
agog
fidget
torque
47. Cowardly craven
hermetic
rueful
pusillanimous
quibble
48. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
suffocate
provoke
ail
pedestrian
49. A very small amount - portion - or particle
delineate
impervious
mite
discourse
50. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
depredation
brook
terse
sanctimony