SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Pcat Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Surprise and fear dismay
pulchritude
vehemence
peremptory
consternation
2. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
centurion
onus
conceal
snub
3. Fairly good but not very good
middling
fluke
craven
dwarf
4. Low vulgar base tawdry
commuter
raffish
profundity
florid
5. Pleasing in appearance attractive
officious
vivacious
personable
profundity
6. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
ascetic
gust
stygian
eloquence
7. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
subsume
importune
grandiloquent
tadpole
8. Yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
torpid
forge
regicide
brass
9. Patience willingness to wait
involute
countervail
imperious
forbearance
10. That cannot be rubbed out
anguish
indelible
limp
prevalent
11. Scarcity a lacking of
paucity
engulf
cajole
convoke
12. Truth
countervail
veracity
cumbersome
paucity
13. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
macabre
impiety
urbane
debacle
14. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
rebuff
taut
obloquy
rapacious
15. Repulsive hateful
mundane
congeal
odious
malleable
16. Urgent essential
enzyme
coy
engrossing
imperative
17. Unlucky
effete
levee
hapless
apprehensive
18. Unimportant
flaunting
beatify
consternation
trifling
19. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
detraction
propitious
forgery
feud
20. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
repast
ebullient
fluster
drone
21. Easily controlled or guided
veer
maul
parenthesis
tractable
22. Weariness tiredness
lassitude
antithetical
prudish
lumber
23. Getting farther apart from a point
incise
prosaic
divergence
immutable
24. Say or do again several times
trenchant
ford
reiterate
hollow
25. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
consume
supersede
cloture
ruffian
26. Witness/evidence
avid
ebullient
testiness
brook
27. Shy easily frightened
fustian
timid
qualm
torment
28. Plot scheme (esp. evil)
machination
antidote
precursors
benison
29. Worked out with much care in great detail
elaborate
auspicious
ire
heinous
30. Sweet-smelling
felicitous
fragrant
asperity
discourse
31. A generator something that produces electric current
dynamo
obtuse
collusion
bereft
32. Cowardly craven
incipient
imbroglio
erudite
pusillanimous
33. Convincing firm belief
conviction
occluded
mendacity
repulsive
34. To resist separation
nadir
cling
cower
poignant
35. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
encomium
extinguish
rancorous
approbation
36. Neat formal
stygian
surcharge
prim
profane
37. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
prone
rivet
voluble
quotidian
38. Forcefulness
abstruse
umbrage
vehemence
slur
39. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
plaintive
narcissism
agog
conceal
40. Showing self-control
dereliction
temperate
proclivity
retinue
41. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
bogus
scent
ominous
esoteric
42. Appearing TRUE or real
recidivism
slate
verisimilitude
epistle
43. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
procrastination
veer
crease
incursion
44. Stone used for sharpening tools
ail
scorch
hone
garner
45. Heavy with water
embellish
soggy
flimsy
petulant
46. Warm and sincere
exculpate
malleable
ponderous
cordial
47. Aggressiveness ferocity
demur
finicky
liberality
truculence
48. Trap
abdication
snare
reiterate
demagogue
49. Become quiet or less active
euphoria
trenchant
lull
coagulation
50. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
probity
reticent
cower
teetotal