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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. Go or come up
pedestrian
ascend
welter
nostrum
2. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
crush
inclined
maladroit
coeval
3. Cowardly
redoubtable
craven
hauteur
purvey
4. Worthless outside part of anything
reconcile
assuage
obstreperous
husk
5. Trick mislead
pucker
hoodwink
bandy
revere
6. Surprise and fear dismay
disdain
taut
exscind
consternation
7. Enclose in capsule
encapsulate
extol
prevaricate
ambrosial
8. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
debacle
submerge
arduous
ascend
9. Artificial obstacle built across a river
commemorate
turgid
plod
barrage
10. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
blandness
poncho
profane
calipers
11. Include under a rule
stanch
tout
quell
subsume
12. Taking off getting rid of giving up
soot
divestiture
lionize
beguile
13. Still in existence
extant
curmudgeon
presentiment
superimpose
14. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
tenuous
pyre
turbid
antidote
15. Sound in judgment wise
strive
desuetude
judicious
constrict
16. Obsequious flatterer
toady
forestall
volatile
heresy
17. Join (two ends)
scribble
sawdust
splice
cursory
18. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
refine
equivocal
knit
profligacy
19. Talk vaguely and without much result
Palpable
truculence
ambrosial
waffle
20. Reserved; indifferent
accolade
ferret
august
aloof
21. Arrogant conceited
chastisement
haughty
plethora
ferment
22. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
probity
lithe
hirsute
gauche
23. No longer active
teetotal
feint
extinct
abide
24. Person who tells anecdotes
diffidence
auxiliary
assuage
raconteur
25. Agreement or harmony
emaciate
concord
forage
foil
26. Cessation of use disuse
desuetude
maudlin
efficacy
savor
27. One who loves mankind
abjure
splice
philanthropist
foray
28. Containing warning
admonitory
summarily
abstruse
deluge
29. Doing or happening something before the right time
taut
imprecation
denouement
premature
30. Beginning
hoi
clinch
incipient
refine
31. Feeling or showing deep respect
ardor
incense
slur
reverent
32. (of eyes) dull
seminal
ambiguous
lackluster
exoneration
33. Fresh and green
accrue
admonitory
imbroglio
verdant
34. Approval (by authority) penalty
perish
tepid
sanction
salubrious
35. Since because
hone
lassitude
impugned
inasmuch
36. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
reprobate
abraded
pitfall
fragile
37. Forcefulness
rejuvenation
vehemence
approbation
trifling
38. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
ascend
lavish
coruscate
impediment
39. Representing the whole Christian world
hauteur
ecumenical
ferocity
limn
40. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
garrulous
consume
ensconce
irascible
41. Extreme poverty
equable
penury
restive
spear
42. Become quiet or less active
palatial
lull
benign
relapse
43. Compel to force to make obedient
liberality
intrepid
sponge
coerce
44. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
astringent
savant
ford
somersault
45. Severe punishment
divergence
dismal
castigation
irksome
46. Physical beauty
recitals
pulchritude
affinity
repel
47. Calmness of temperament
harbinger
equanimity
cling
paradigm
48. Using pompous words
grandiloquent
dissent
irresolute
dangle
49. Make nervous or confused
sever
droll
fluster
shallow
50. Shortly - roughly - quickly
lucubrate
sanction
unearth
sketchy