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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. Short piece of humorous writing
satiate
variegate
scurvy
skit
2. Tiny bits of wood
sawdust
tortuous
fret
temperance
3. Prevent make impossible
preen
abscond
preclude
castigation
4. Way out exit
pluck
egress
inimical
antithetical
5. Commanding haughty arrogant
turquoise
moribund
imperious
console
6. Immoral person
libertine
desiccant
soporific
fagged
7. Likely to be useful for a purpose
cant
perch
odious
expedient
8. Beat hard
belabor
Palpable
proscribe
stifled
9. Discover by searching search
ferret
embezzle
ebullience
wend
10. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
stingy
lien
vituperate
ale
11. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
splenetic
ascertain
credulity
partisan
12. Aimless haphazard digressing at random
hubris
benefactor
disingenuous
desultory
13. Greatly surprised
atonement
conceal
nonplused
solvent
14. Without taste or flavor
taut
insipid
denouement
shunt
15. Slander aspersion
indomitable
cogent
heinous
calumny
16. Sound in judgment wise
indigence
petulant
judicious
austere
17. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
substantiation
impervious
debacle
profligate
18. Threatening
undulate
tonic
ominous
swerve
19. Strong dislike
mulct
sordid
dereliction
animosity
20. Check hinder
malleable
commemorate
sophistry
retard
21. Insubstantial/dull/immature
resigned
jejune
stickler
enzyme
22. Wickedness shamefulness
craven
turpitude
savant
yeoman
23. Renounce disallow repudiate
pusillanimous
flout
forswear
miser
24. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
palatial
sequence
propitious
glimmer
25. Feeling of regret for one's action
unearth
compunction
parley
quiescence
26. Be out of view ready to attack
attune
crass
lurk
tamp
27. Bold
audacious
consternation
perfidy
compunction
28. Nickname
gullible
pinch
sobriquet
predominate
29. Bad-tempered person
crass
curmudgeon
sobriety
forbearance
30. Move along with long strides
harbinger
exculpate
affinity
lope
31. More then is needed or wanted
presage
vituperate
dawdler
superfluous
32. Paint portray
ambrosial
sophomoric
clot
limn
33. Exuberance outburst of feeling
ebullience
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
sluggard
pertain
34. Unlucky
erratic
yarn
hapless
candid
35. Fresh and green
verdant
fulsome
inchoate
amortize
36. Substance become excited
forestall
trepidation
ferment
assail
37. To clear from a charge of guilt
denigrate
blatant
assail
exculpate
38. One who hates women/females
misogynist
truculence
implosion
aversion
39. Move quickly suddenly and with force
libertine
fulmination
malign
plunge
40. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
extenuate
sash
requite
succor
41. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
dormant
mesmerize
matriculation
forfeit
42. A piece of broken pottery
shard
adamant
assuage
lucubrate
43. Wretched comfortless contemptible
pulchritude
sordid
squalid
endemic
44. Song of praise or triumph
paean
dynamo
apprise
prodigal
45. Duty support loyalty
cognizant
allegiance
detumescence
agile
46. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
ignoble
peripatetic
calipers
recuperate
47. Person who has been converted to a belief
barren
clientele
unearth
neophyte
48. Tiring because too long
burnish
lien
corroboration
prolix
49. To portray depict sketch out
molt
sequence
condone
delineate
50. To take in marriage
incipient
ostensible
espouse
fidget