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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. A raid a sudden attack
highbrow
rancorous
finical
incursion
2. To praise highly
accretion
extol
homiletics
irksome
3. Get to know
immutable
ascertain
astringent
inferno
4. Common
rescind
salvage
prevalent
imperious
5. Infertile worn out weak
beatify
inferno
effete
expostulate
6. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
froward
stint
shard
mercurial
7. Course of study
pucker
curriculum
extort
coerce
8. Pronounce (words)/express a theory
savant
epicurean
enunciate
relapse
9. Prayer
fragrant
orison
uncouth
antithetical
10. Complicated and embarrassing situation
imbroglio
regicide
fetid
nonplused
11. Wander lose one's way
stray
libel
dote
salutary
12. Harmful injurious
ferret
pundit
ecumenical
pernicious
13. Poverty
commemorate
disparate
indigence
prudish
14. Cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
calumny
irksome
constrain
nebulous
15. Surprise and fear dismay
consternation
palpitate
trudge
forbearance
16. Habit or action peculiar to something
abscond
dereliction
supercilious
quirk
17. Brightly colored florid
invective
noisome
flamboyant
engrave
18. Urgent essential
garble
ameliorate
imperative
avid
19. Sluggish dull not tight
torment
denouement
slack
pristine
20. Call up bring out
roll
trickle
evoke
slake
21. Varied motley greatly diversified
multifarious
surcharge
ubiquitous
amortize
22. Lying on the back slow to act passive
germane
countenance
doleful
supine
23. Tending to evade
amalgamate
patron
equable
evasive
24. Hence dark gloomy
hoi
misanthrope
imbroglio
stygian
25. Constant
profuse
pileous
narcissism
incessant
26. Noisy quarrel
fracas
falter
epistle
accrue
27. Making unpure poorer in quality
adulteration
retinue
recreancy
sullied
28. Person who attacks popular beliefs
torment
feint
restive
iconoclast
29. Physical beauty
pique
pulchritude
indulgent
punctilious
30. Not normal or usual
approbation
dawdler
preternatural
perfidy
31. Bitter protest
figurehead
fulmination
commemorate
refulgent
32. Have deep respect for
discourse
revere
centurion
dirge
33. Obsequious flatterer
torque
toady
fixate
ruddy
34. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
reactionary
censure
dilate
transitory
35. Brief and to the point
panegyric
terse
scabbard
insurrection
36. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
conceit
dainty
prudence
perfidious
37. Written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
sagacious
diffidence
subpoena
rant
38. Without preparation or forethought
fawn
snare
offhand
emote
39. Kind and gentle mild (climate)
plunge
sawdust
benign
warrant
40. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
feud
edible
ostracism
lackluster
41. Fertile
sedulous
coax
fecund
propitiatory
42. Violent cruel man
ruffian
boorish
calipers
veneer
43. Distracted violently upset in mind
sponge
foray
distraught
boggle
44. Smell (especially pleasant)
dismal
submerge
sanguine
scent
45. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
shunt
discountenance
slack
overhaul
46. Take back as being FALSE give up
mundane
discourse
suppliant
recant
47. Elation state of pleasant excitement
hospitable
regicide
euphoria
chauvinist
48. To deny to oppose
lope
renowned
ascetic
gainsay
49. Assistance relief in time of distress
recluse
imperturbable
subsume
succor
50. Skeptical unwilling to believe
elicit
correlate
belligerent
incredulous