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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. Discourage hinder
epithet
deter
knit
waft
2. Omen sign
sodden
countervail
augury
brittle
3. Sparkle
hypocrisy
recidivism
coruscate
salacious
4. Abundant/lavish
adamant
profuse
appease
debacle
5. Welcomed with shouts and approval
shunned
acclaimed
defiance
effluvia
6. Unimportant
surcharge
trifling
premature
sober
7. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
finicky
undermine
accretion
defalcate
8. Meant as a joke
fallacious
itinerate
jocular
soot
9. To beg to get by begging
offhand
cadge
bedizen
concur
10. Rise fly high
belabor
soar
harrow
morbid
11. Devious/not straightforward
abide
mite
tortuous
levity
12. Lacking solidarity - strength
hoax
chicanery
jagged
flimsy
13. Like a slave lacking independence
servile
imperious
tamper
disproof
14. Helping supporting
asterisk
vanquish
auxiliary
nadir
15. Yield - die
succumb
tout
transitory
apotheosis
16. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
fecund
cantankerous
plunge
plummet
17. Negotiation
parley
sash
boorish
desuetude
18. Trick mislead
hoodwink
dote
coalescing
denigrate
19. Take the place of
disingenuous
dawdler
hallow
supersede
20. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
restive
infuse
edible
machination
21. Person who has been converted to a belief
proliferate
temperate
pine
neophyte
22. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
urbane
Palpable
inscrutable
introspection
23. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
inured
finical
succor
ail
24. Close connection relationship
affinity
emaciate
bequest
equipoise
25. State or put forward as a necessary condition
stipulate
poncho
indulge
propitious
26. Way out exit
valorous
forbear
egress
abhor
27. Lazy slow-moving person
fracas
sluggard
glib
sophomoric
28. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
florid
conceit
resilience
sanction
29. Suffer the loss of something
malign
forfeit
summarily
pungency
30. Be guilty commit (a crime)
perpetrate
solvent
ingenuous
prim
31. Excessive admiration of
churlish
inchoate
onerous
idolatry
32. Truth
defiance
topple
veracity
wile
33. Positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
dogmatic
morose
splice
machination
34. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
pariah
somersault
peremptory
35. Easily broken
brittle
veritable
wag
debacle
36. That gives warning or information
forgery
sundry
liberality
telltale
37. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
breach
rant
phlegmatic
sycophant
38. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
boisterous
contrite
ebullience
panegyric
39. To travel from place to place to peregrinate
itinerate
egress
ponderous
trenchant
40. A raid a sudden attack
veneer
foster
pertain
incursion
41. Process of burning
combustion
castigation
puissance
penitent
42. Without use result conceited
vain
forfeit
boggle
paucity
43. Official duties
epistle
incumbents
ubiquitous
summarily
44. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
proclivity
beguile
plaque
glimmer
45. Write one's name on the back of
narcissism
heinous
plod
endorse
46. Settle a quarrel restore peace
reconcile
epiphany
tyro
heed
47. Getting farther apart from a point
divergence
pivotal
imperative
transitory
48. Extreme astounding
sublime
implicate
disdain
cordial
49. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
flop
obviate
indigence
denouement
50. Very great number
preen
myriad
vex
uncouth