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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. Welcomed with shouts and approval
slake
acclaimed
discourse
stolid
2. Furiously angry - enraged
refulgent
livid
panegyric
prudence
3. Display to obtain admiration or envy
onerous
boorish
ostentation
presentiment
4. Wasteful reckless with money
prodigal
privation
adamant
fleet
5. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
chastened
propinquity
countenance
eloquence
6. Strong dislike
pervade
ecumenical
aversion
refractory
7. Cheerful person
extrovert
preternatural
salutary
doleful
8. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
precursors
ignominious
sheath
substantiation
9. To go proceed
wend
torque
conspicuous
fragrant
10. Sensitiveness
fidget
susceptibility
brook
chisel
11. Make nervous or confused
fluster
nexus
yeoman
volatile
12. Overcome bring under control
hew
welter
articulate
subdue
13. Traveling about wandering
presumption
prim
peregrination
veneration
14. Of the present time only
grouse
vain
provisional
extant
15. Disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
fulsome
insouciant
strut
ail
16. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
dissemble
dissent
noxious
flop
17. Speak comprehensively become wider large
indulge
didactic
reproach
dilate
18. Of the internal organs of the body
lope
visceral
garner
feral
19. Make or become soft by soaking in water
macerate
testiness
abscond
vex
20. Lively high-spirited
vivacious
desiccant
nadir
covert
21. Easily seen remarkable
bogus
finicky
disencumber
conspicuous
22. Having a desire to revenge
emote
vindictive
dissemble
abet
23. Native
obtuse
indigenous
visceral
trite
24. Abundant/lavish
profuse
punitive
lionize
pyre
25. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
inveigh
epitome
libertine
foible
26. Coming together and uniting into one substance
coalescing
fledgling
perilous
soggy
27. Lacking strength walking unevenly
limp
garrulous
gossamer
evasive
28. Fail/move/fall clumsily
rejuvenation
flop
denigrate
garner
29. An outcast a rejected and despised person
resort
pariah
encumbrance
roll
30. Annoy distress trouble
shun
vex
berate
covert
31. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
heresy
finical
sash
ignominious
32. Use until none remains
deplete
involute
credulous
mischievous
33. Accumulate
endemic
accrue
lionize
sere
34. Attractive on the surface but of little value
pertain
shunt
meretricious
rift
35. Puzzle confuse
entreat
enmity
bewilder
visceral
36. Worthless outside part of anything
husk
extort
acumen
frugal
37. Careful/prudent
trudge
mite
discreet
incorrigibility
38. Discourage hinder
lionize
gouge
deter
nonplused
39. To protest object
fission
upbraid
ascertain
remonstrate
40. Formidable causing fear
soporific
perspicacity
redoubtable
plunge
41. Aud a person of something
sophistry
mulct
connotation
reactionary
42. Blocked up
abide
occluded
lavish
regicide
43. Cruel
eloquence
restive
sadastic
foolproof
44. Describe somebody scornfully
picaresque
ominous
stigmatize
embezzle
45. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
doleful
deprave
reticence
dainty
46. Having a toothed edge
predilection
serrated
hirsute
oblivious
47. To cut out cut away
fluke
august
servile
exscind
48. Show much fondness center one's attention
alleviate
ingenuous
dote
invective
49. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
hew
timorous
apt
inclined
50. Trace or sign
vestige
nebulous
limp
shunt