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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.
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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. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
presage
felicitous
encumbrance
dote
2. Duty support loyalty
punctilious
lull
illicit
allegiance
3. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
preen
accrue
plummet
eclat
4. Care economy thriving prosperous
incongruous
thrift
flinch
overweening
5. Make or become soft by soaking in water
macerate
blase
mite
defalcate
6. Noisy and rough
blatant
abide
fluke
veer
7. Threatening
ominous
mellifluous
idolatry
soggy
8. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
penurious
profligate
strive
dormant
9. Examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
propitiatory
overhaul
prone
gouge
10. Quality of being unskillful
forbearance
putrefaction
ineptitude
forge
11. Made of brass
brazen
imprecation
diffidence
jabber
12. To speak harmful untruths about someone
froward
chaste
cursory
malign
13. Cowardly craven
exploit
squat
pusillanimous
regale
14. Corrected punished
wag
gist
fluke
chastened
15. Course of study
ail
impair
profane
curriculum
16. Swallow up
engulf
raffish
rejuvenation
perspicacity
17. Able to use the left hand or the right equally well
scurvy
propinquity
ambidextrous
rabble
18. Careful economical
simper
frugal
transitory
atonement
19. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
maul
didactic
defalcate
stride
20. Break off
sever
deluge
brittle
vitiate
21. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
balk
ensign
imperative
sordid
22. Eager and cheerful readiness
striated
aspersion
alacrity
dainty
23. As an installment
obfuscate
interim
inveigh
irksome
24. Harmful causing mischief
overhaul
distrait
mischievous
reprobate
25. Diligent hard-working sedulous
assiduous
rebus
invincible
repast
26. Get rid of pull up by the roots
implicit
middling
trifling
eradicate
27. Person of great learning
complaisant
savant
trepidation
caustic
28. Change direction
alloy
stipple
inscrutable
veer
29. Act with excessive enthusiasm
ineluctable
rave
enigma
abut
30. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
scorch
rumple
epiphany
exuberance
31. Strong dislike
animosity
pique
flout
retrospective
32. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
voluble
denouement
profligate
foible
33. Trifling/worthless
recuperate
wan
dangle
nugatory
34. Sentence within another one something separated
parenthesis
plaintive
ail
equivocate
35. Suggestion in addition to
connotation
engrossing
foster
aplomb
36. Overcome bring under control
inane
descry
fracas
subdue
37. Calm not capable of being excited
imperturbable
turmoil
involute
eschew
38. Take the place of
vacillation
anguish
supersede
abysmal
39. To hate to detest
covetous
abhor
ostentation
pertain
40. Brave
irresolute
valorous
boorish
regicide
41. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
molt
involute
ponderous
tamp
42. Deeply moving keen
transient
stigmatize
machination
poignant
43. One who turns towards himself
torque
regale
ambivalent
introvert
44. Alarm excited state of mind
dulcet
rivet
repulsive
trepidation
45. A quack remedy an untested cure
volatile
profundity
coruscate
nostrum
46. Suppress subdue
quell
pileous
incredulous
maudlin
47. Discover and bring to light
unearth
extrovert
petrify
argot
48. Food for horses and cattle
avid
forage
hoodwink
diatribe
49. Hell
parsimonious
collusion
inferno
cornucopia
50. To stop the flow of a fluid
cogitate
introspection
steeply
stanch