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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. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
forbear
gouge
prim
resilience
2. Savage cruelty
spurn
plaintive
cadge
ferocity
3. Quality of being unskillful
ineptitude
ruddy
matriculation
taut
4. Lose courage turn frightened
quiescence
congeal
pitfall
quail
5. Break go beyond (a limit)
forge
fidget
transgress
talon
6. Satisfy fully
impassive
descry
satiate
ebullient
7. Surgically clean
pliant
aseptic
ignominious
cornucopia
8. Lowest weakest point
feint
penchant
nadir
irrevocable
9. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
exhaustive
hush
spear
apprise
10. Deification glorification to godliness
connote
burnish
blandness
apotheosis
11. Weaken deprive of strength attenuate
veritable
enervate
cling
trickle
12. A piece of broken pottery
daunt
presage
shard
balk
13. Use flattery or deceit to persuade
cajole
turgid
fidget
cantankerous
14. Sheath for the blade
warrant
resuscitation
scabbard
ostensible
15. Person who lives alone and avoids people
disproof
perpetrate
recluse
denouement
16. Finical
coddle
arrogance
finicky
dubious
17. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
discomfit
finical
heresy
prolix
18. Twisting force causing rotation
undermine
abrogate
coda
torque
19. Forgery
apropos
cryptic
counterfeit
reticence
20. Letter
consume
epistle
dissemble
discountenance
21. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
frantic
embezzle
gullible
fission
22. That gives warning or information
precursors
telltale
malleable
clamor
23. Sparkle
coruscate
itinerate
redeem
arduous
24. Give notice to inform
squander
divergence
apprise
epitome
25. Spend wastefully
tenacity
moribund
finical
squander
26. Making dear or liked
libertine
counterfeit
endearing
denouement
27. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
retrospective
exploit
disrobe
fission
28. Inclination
proclivity
suborn
visceral
specious
29. Take back as being FALSE give up
hoi
rubicund
recant
malapropism
30. Gruesome suggesting death
macabre
exscind
affinity
coax
31. Noisy and rough
blatant
inept
transitory
inveigh
32. Try to deceive by equivocal language
encumbrance
vex
frugal
equivocate
33. Tending to evade
evasive
feint
specious
vitiate
34. Frank straight-forward
proclivity
vitiate
macerate
candid
35. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
dilate
sanctimony
impede
atonement
36. Set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
ford
enthral
malapropism
exoneration
37. Childish
garrulous
lassitude
rumple
puerile
38. Rich and deep plump and round
resort
prodigious
lachrymose
rotund
39. Treat with care and tenderness
combustion
florid
coddle
provident
40. Lazy slow-moving person
sluggard
sporadic
exploit
lull
41. Odious (of crime)
heinous
trickle
quotidian
brook
42. Prayer
deter
orison
cloture
harangue
43. Treat as a famous person
lionize
flax
dynamo
homiletics
44. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
tassel
sententious
abut
lachrymose
45. Having a toothed edge
precepts
serration
germane
garner
46. Severing
effrontery
dwarf
paradigm
severance
47. Secret with a hidden meaning
ingenuous
poignant
cryptic
impute
48. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
turgid
deposition
pest
panegyric
49. Brief summary representative example a typical model
epitome
enduring
cumbersome
tadpole
50. Being fully aware of
loquacious
extenuate
cognizant
disrobe