SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Pcat Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. To make an effort - to try very hard
strut
asterisk
distrait
endeavor
2. Responsilibilty -burden
demagogue
preen
emaciate
onus
3. Legal or judicial inquiry - especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
auxiliary
inquest
pervade
prevalent
4. Hatred being an enemy
cordial
enmity
drone
palpability
5. Slow way of speaking
drawl
rubicund
barren
engrossing
6. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
affinity
conjoin
countenance
exploit
7. Disobedient
frenetic
recalcitrant
implicit
endemic
8. Blocked up
occluded
floe
stride
spear
9. Poverty
tangential
indigence
dawdler
alacrity
10. Giving facts to support (statement)
lugubrious
substantiation
forage
antithetical
11. Person who tells anecdotes
avow
recluse
raconteur
retrograde
12. To be thrifty to set limits
odium
stint
middling
implicit
13. Get something inquire too curiously
profligate
pucker
fidget
pry
14. A generator something that produces electric current
dynamo
taunt
holster
embezzle
15. To go proceed
sumptuous
vigilant
wend
plunge
16. Ask earnestly
entreat
fidelity
fetid
rabble
17. Reproving a person for his faults
sporadic
harrow
sermon
splenetic
18. Paint with dots
hew
picaresque
squalid
stipple
19. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
alcove
limp
puissance
abscond
20. Shy easily frightened
ambivalent
alcove
acarpous
timid
21. Elation state of pleasant excitement
effluvia
pundit
euphoria
ramify
22. Crude offensive rude
approbation
boorish
inferno
pry
23. Haughty arrogant commanding
abeyance
indulge
imperviousness
transgress
24. Straying away from what is normal
aberration
disallow
engrave
breach
25. Of the same period coexisting
plead
rivet
abraded
coeval
26. Done as a duty without care
ambidextrous
sequence
perfunctory
benevolence
27. Falsely making oneself appear to be good
hypocrisy
sundry
savor
deprave
28. Frank straight-forward
preponderance
candid
corporeal
gush
29. Unharmed unhurt
unscathed
repel
disheveled
prodigal
30. Be destroyed decay
transitory
haughty
palate
perish
31. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
opaqueness
taunt
terse
temperance
32. Insincere talk/jargon
fledgling
cant
repine
deplete
33. Worthless outside part of anything
vestige
husk
revere
ambivalent
34. Join (two ends)
cordial
divestiture
vacuity
splice
35. Make known something secret
divulge
coagulation
rotund
tautology
36. Obscene
barren
dexterity
salacious
cogitate
37. Able to float light-hearted
stigmatize
insipid
incite
buoyant
38. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
invincible
tawdry
baleful
counterfeit
39. Large pile of wood for burning
reticent
pyre
tenacity
serrated
40. Song of praise or triumph
paean
concur
boorish
crush
41. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
philistine
waft
floe
taciturn
42. Formidable causing fear
boggle
denouement
sawdust
redoubtable
43. Brave
meticulous
valorous
bilge
blatant
44. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
dainty
forfeit
delineate
caustic
45. Prevent from carrying out contrast
rebuff
baneful
foil
propagation
46. Present everywhere
baleful
ubiquitous
succor
contentious
47. Speak comprehensively become wider large
dilate
emote
plaque
bogus
48. Satisfy fully
ensign
satiate
jabber
urbane
49. Deep-rooted. long-established
stolid
inveterate
impetuous
affinity
50. Letter
redoubtable
concur
epistle
odor