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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Flattery coaxing
eloquence
lionize
impede
blandishment
2. Anger
ire
salutary
reprobate
ameliorate
3. Complex
chisel
perjury
indistinct
involute
4. Fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
volubility
prevalent
turmoil
mesmerize
5. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
livid
incongruous
wend
snare
6. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
savant
imminent
disheveled
7. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
plea
encumbrance
succumb
wanton
8. To clear from a charge of guilt
dismal
plod
implicit
exculpate
9. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
equivocate
pristine
machination
denouement
10. Arrogance
vacillation
presumption
deviance
riddle
11. Bending twisting
timorous
renowned
lithe
expatiate
12. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
belligerent
belabor
ail
stanch
13. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
overweening
pulchritude
rarefy
waft
14. Final and unalterable
lachrymose
recidivism
quibble
irrevocable
15. Able to float light-hearted
buoyant
extrovert
perpetrate
brook
16. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
infuriate
lurk
candid
machination
17. Take the place of
exoneration
convoke
supersede
deferential
18. Able to fly trained experienced
fledged
forgery
hermetic
tractable
19. Dangerous
refine
plummet
perilous
malinger
20. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
flout
extirpate
sequence
incumbents
21. Porous rubber for washing live at once expense
strut
sponge
combustion
encumbrance
22. Easily understood lucid clear
insularity
alacrity
luculent
machination
23. Aud a person of something
mulct
belabor
arduous
feud
24. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
halcyon
pest
welter
fulmination
25. Easily seen remarkable
conspicuous
luculent
qualm
demur
26. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
philistine
foster
secular
tadpole
27. Severe pain or suffering
torment
abdication
cryptic
veneration
28. Welcomed with shouts and approval
libertine
vacuity
acclaimed
chauvinist
29. Intimidate make fearful
benison
repulsive
doggerel
daunt
30. Take in by swallowing
ingest
fledgling
bolster
expiation
31. Treat with care and tenderness
forge
foray
veneer
coddle
32. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
fringe
suffice
petrous
abate
33. State of growing vigorously being full of life
hush
sagacious
luculent
exuberance
34. Practicing self-denial austere stark
ascetic
cravat
wile
sanity
35. Gibe make fun of
calisthenics
vindictive
jibe
cordon
36. One who turns towards himself
distraught
consternation
neophyte
introvert
37. Number of ships quick-moving
stipulate
shun
sheath
fleet
38. Idleness
animosity
vacuity
pliant
impecunious
39. Get back by payment compensate
plumb
tamp
redeem
coalescing
40. Make thin. weaken enervate
reverent
refulgent
buoyant
attenuate
41. Beat hard
introvert
fracas
bequest
belabor
42. Happening from time to time
incessant
sporadic
dynamo
requite
43. A raid a sudden attack
dilate
incursion
proscribe
palpitate
44. Worthless outside part of anything
husk
erudite
perfidy
paucity
45. Get to the end of
lament
heinous
consume
rant
46. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
appease
trickle
irresolute
abscond
47. Learned scholarly
render
erudite
frantic
obviate
48. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
impiety
repudiate
consummate
provisional
49. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
dissemble
boisterous
diatribe
tout
50. Witness/evidence
abhor
testiness
embellish
demagogue