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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. Frantic frenzied
frenetic
fervid
preternatural
grave
2. Number of ships quick-moving
gouge
blatant
deposition
fleet
3. Sound in judgment wise
judicious
provoke
jagged
inadvertent
4. Customers
clientele
dote
hoi
riddle
5. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
sawdust
affinity
gourmand
cabal
6. To gather and save to store up
peremptory
pertain
provisional
garner
7. Briefly without delay
summarily
complaisant
audacious
rife
8. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
rift
blithe
acumen
predilection
9. Spread into every part of
telltale
permeate
foible
drone
10. Blessing
foppish
heterogeneous
rarefy
benison
11. Brutal racial discrimination
antithetical
blase
apartheid
extempore
12. Immoral person
calisthenics
embezzle
libertine
wan
13. To great to be described in words
connote
ineffable
compunction
coeval
14. Lose courage turn frightened
quail
chauvinist
feud
intrepid
15. Melodious harmonious
dulcet
salacious
dissemble
taciturn
16. Having both of two contrary meanings
insensible
ambivalent
sash
ascribe
17. Person who has been converted to a belief
neophyte
berate
goad
conciliatory
18. Person of great learning
prodigal
savant
ossify
clot
19. Yield - die
audacious
enmity
succumb
benevolence
20. Hesitating undecided
assail
salvage
catalyst
irresolute
21. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
stipulate
proclivity
shunt
finical
22. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
heretic
drone
lurk
truce
23. Increase in density strength make laconic
wan
condense
brittle
craven
24. Careful/prudent
discreet
suffice
forfeit
subdue
25. Place here and there
intersperse
restive
cabal
denigrate
26. Scold upbraid
equivocal
slate
obtain
reproach
27. Rich and deep plump and round
wile
rotund
extinct
iconoclast
28. Common
transgress
prevalent
heinous
shard
29. Lukewarm
deplete
tepid
pique
imbroglio
30. Elation state of pleasant excitement
pucker
euphoria
resuscitation
regicide
31. Plunder (especially in war)
pillage
quiescence
pernicious
uncouth
32. Hand or swing loosely
dangle
impecunious
vex
engulf
33. Give notice to inform
apprise
machination
vex
fracas
34. Prolonged
protracted
benign
sluggard
intrepid
35. Slow way of speaking
deposition
drawl
entangle
ebullience
36. Lucky stroke
fluke
recast
contemn
emote
37. Taking off getting rid of giving up
divestiture
suppress
superimpose
equilibrium
38. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
proliferate
ensconce
plead
palliate
39. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
poncho
fatuous
moribund
trepidation
40. Traveling about wandering
abjure
peregrination
simper
sash
41. Cowardice a cowardly giving up
recreancy
mendicant
defalcate
aloof
42. Lively high-spirited
maul
vivacious
reticent
salacious
43. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
voluble
lien
abide
vigorous
44. Cannot be cured or corrected
sanguine
prolix
incorrigibility
sawdust
45. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
ale
dearth
quail
tortuous
46. Show bodily or mental pain
sluggard
wince
equanimity
effluvia
47. Of the internal organs of the body
cower
parley
allegiance
visceral
48. Make hard and without feeling
dissemble
sere
impervious
conundrum
49. Showing respect
deferential
precepts
intersperse
imprecation
50. Ready to believe things
prevalent
credulous
florid
reverent