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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. Assistance relief in time of distress
broach
husk
succor
demagogue
2. Treat as a famous person
lionize
bellicose
levity
decry
3. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
pedestrian
ambidextrous
savor
temperate
4. Make or become soft by soaking in water
foppish
finical
seminal
macerate
5. Present but not yet active developed or visible
placate
idiosyncrasy
latent
ostentation
6. Helping supporting
machination
elicit
topple
auxiliary
7. Suppress subdue
quell
raffish
soggy
pinch
8. To make great efforts - to struggle
extricable
beatify
engrave
strive
9. Have a mutual relation
lassitude
malleable
correlate
grave
10. Having a desire to revenge
discourse
vindictive
middling
gallant
11. Show off complacently
flaunting
legacy
swerve
subdue
12. Poor/stingy
penurious
pied
imprecation
spear
13. Parody/imitation
unfeigned
travesty
disingenuous
nebulous
14. Not pretended sincere
petrous
erudite
unfeigned
fawn
15. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
volubility
sycophant
patron
oblivious
16. To polish rub to a shine
disheveled
burnish
pest
pugnacious
17. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
churlish
trenchant
ferment
18. To stop the flow of a fluid
felon
stanch
elaborate
malapropism
19. Put into difficulties
decry
ineluctable
officious
entangle
20. With attack violently
assail
trenchant
abrogate
superfluous
21. Rise fly high
soar
sketchy
exhaustive
manacle
22. Letter
fetid
fustian
obtain
epistle
23. Boldness brashness intrepidness
enunciate
temerity
complaisance
idolatry
24. Carved image on the prow of a ship
obviate
turbid
tassel
figurehead
25. Causing no harm
purvey
inscrutable
innocuous
stygian
26. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
sheath
buoyant
caustic
prevalent
27. Add beauty; decorate
luculent
belabor
harbinger
adorn
28. Transparent easy to understand
pucker
intersperse
vitiate
pellucid
29. To make holy consecrate
mince
weigh
hallow
perpetrate
30. Bad-tempered irritable
splenetic
jagged
impending
combustion
31. Too strong to be defeated
abet
imperturbable
petrified
invincible
32. Traveling about wandering
perpetrate
goad
vindictive
peregrination
33. Abundant supply
cornucopia
heed
misanthrope
retinue
34. Person who lives alone and avoids people
facetious
brash
implosion
recluse
35. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
livid
ignoble
minatory
somersault
36. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
blandness
enunciate
extinct
stygian
37. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
detumescence
mince
morose
38. Happening from time to time
cantankerous
sporadic
philistine
invincible
39. Feeling sleepy half asleep
reprobate
sanction
revere
drowsiness
40. Puzzle in which pictures stand for words
foray
rebus
ponderous
pervade
41. Can be felt touched understood
recondite
approbation
prim
palpability
42. Corrected punished
somatic
apostate
lucubrate
chastened
43. Showing earnest feeling
rejuvenation
dissemble
torpid
fervid
44. Unreasonably impatient
corporeal
chicanery
petulant
lampoon
45. Distribute (esp. ideas)
iconoclast
discredit
disseminate
incursion
46. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
punitive
sophisticated
prodigious
calipers
47. Doubtful uncertain
connotation
ambiguous
indomitable
floe
48. Incapable of being discovered or understood
concur
bewilder
protracted
inscrutable
49. Naive young artless frank honest sincere
transient
chary
ingenuous
cognizant
50. Having a toothed edge
implacable
serration
credulity
lull