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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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english
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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. Chains for the hands or feet
manacle
assuage
travesty
doggerel
2. A raid a sudden attack
incursion
turquoise
pied
dainty
3. Tightly stretched
poncho
savor
extempore
taut
4. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
auxiliary
idyll
impute
nonchalant
5. Formal praise panegyric
tamp
eulogy
halcyon
impecunious
6. Frank straight-forward
barrage
expedient
candid
calisthenics
7. Abundant/lavish
flout
profuse
hermetic
discrete
8. Careful economical
frugal
pivotal
facetious
propagation
9. A model example or pattern
paradigm
pristine
unencumbered
portent
10. Taking too little care
commodious
cordon
negligent
cower
11. Physical beauty
hauteur
pulchritude
derivative
occluded
12. Mark of shame or disgrace
consequential
snub
extirpate
stigma
13. Over look at with selfish delight
gloat
tortuous
augury
waft
14. Enormous wonderful
germane
dismal
occluded
prodigious
15. Disobedient
trickle
erudite
recalcitrant
lope
16. Lower the quality weaken the strength
prune
sawdust
rave
vitiate
17. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
connote
nexus
vigilant
gossamer
18. Unaware having no memory
accrue
impiety
irksome
oblivious
19. Since because
encapsulate
exploit
eradicate
inasmuch
20. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
libel
tadpole
erratic
abrogate
21. State or put forward as a necessary condition
exuberance
uncouth
edacious
stipulate
22. Weak/unsteady light
implacable
glimmer
concoct
maverick
23. Forgive
condone
deplete
jibe
glib
24. Able to float light-hearted
fidelity
forswear
tepid
buoyant
25. Hand or swing loosely
dangle
detumescence
hospitable
sponge
26. Supply to much fill to excess
equanimity
shun
cordon
glut
27. Greatly surprised
mince
fallacious
nonplused
presumption
28. Tiny bits of wood
stigmatize
sawdust
temperance
enzyme
29. Take up a high position
perch
restive
foster
avid
30. Calm not capable of being excited
imperious
ulterior
volatile
imperturbable
31. Without taste or flavor
permeate
barren
grievous
insipid
32. Frantic frenzied
exuberance
frenetic
knit
timid
33. Collapse bursting inward
implosion
knit
rejuvenation
crease
34. Showing no emotion impassive
soar
thrift
impermeable
stolid
35. Brightly colored florid
flamboyant
sodden
detumescence
toady
36. Get to know
fledged
descry
alcove
ascertain
37. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
hauteur
subpoena
surfeit
arabesque
38. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
propitious
corroboration
abstruse
cohort
39. Opposing progress
forge
agog
reactionary
holster
40. Person who loves wealth and spends little
miser
deferential
endeavor
yeoman
41. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
waft
coy
fission
sketchy
42. Stir up excite
obviate
underbid
rant
emote
43. Poor/stingy
equanimity
fret
transient
penurious
44. Easy-going trifle
ruddy
blatant
unencumbered
overweening
45. Easily controlled or guided
ignominious
bereft
tractable
dissemble
46. Shortage
collusion
underbid
alacrity
dearth
47. Official duties
imperviousness
effrontery
incumbents
churl
48. Brutal racial discrimination
foment
vain
intrepid
apartheid
49. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
feckless
expostulate
falter
regale
50. Diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
lope
husk
feud
morbid