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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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english
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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. Bombastic
fustian
nebulous
feud
lavish
2. An outcast a rejected and despised person
incite
pariah
recluse
trickle
3. Compel
assuage
petrous
constrain
elaborate
4. At be discontented with
fidget
repine
tractable
prim
5. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
dolt
salvage
epicurean
frugal
6. Speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
peregrination
precarious
exoneration
dissemble
7. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
topple
extirpate
auspicious
8. Bad-tempered person
vestige
supine
aversion
curmudgeon
9. Admit; declare openly
avow
inured
succumb
trudge
10. One who hates women/females
misogynist
temerity
idiosyncrasy
scribble
11. Lose courage turn frightened
expatiate
articulate
supercilious
quail
12. To make hard rocklike
petrify
foil
curtail
ambivalent
13. A lament a melancholy composition
elegy
arrant
beguile
lassitude
14. Cruel
pileous
sadastic
obfuscate
taunt
15. Reproving a person for his faults
vitiate
nibble
sermon
doggerel
16. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
consternation
expurgate
inept
presentiment
17. Food for horses and cattle
forage
abhor
recuperate
resigned
18. Elation state of pleasant excitement
testiness
obfuscate
suppliant
euphoria
19. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
foster
macabre
baleful
20. Sham counterfeit not genuine
squat
abraded
gouge
bogus
21. Persevering
dissent
sedulous
extirpate
crush
22. Disguised
disallow
wanton
covert
sanguine
23. Flattery coaxing
contumacious
testiness
reticent
blandishment
24. Roughness of manner or of surface
thwart
asperity
incessant
nadir
25. Repeal or annul by authority
sinuous
importune
abrogate
perfidy
26. Inclination
whimsical
duress
proclivity
contentious
27. Address a court of law as an advocate
plead
stigmatize
swerve
striated
28. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
astute
ambidextrous
fragile
coruscate
29. Voracious devouring
impending
edacious
coalescing
remonstrate
30. Magnificent
chastisement
palatial
hush
voluble
31. Immoral person
libertine
quack
plead
brazen
32. Lacking solidarity - strength
disparate
figurehead
trencherman
flimsy
33. Have deep respect for
revere
predominate
unencumbered
extempore
34. Crouch/settle without permission
squat
torque
maverick
gush
35. Improve make better
philistine
shard
ameliorate
flaunting
36. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
sophomoric
infuse
perjury
ramify
37. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
beguile
fret
glut
disinter
38. Authority written order guarantee
tout
dormant
dissent
warrant
39. Free from encumbrance
nostrum
disencumber
invective
trenchant
40. Cruel killing of a large number of people
petulant
inchoate
massacre
flax
41. Spending using unwillingly
figurehead
stingy
extant
suffice
42. Ill-tempered unsocial
parsimonious
apartheid
morose
profane
43. Put something on the top
superimpose
ingenuous
forgery
ignoble
44. To praise highly
rife
incorrigibility
extol
tenacity
45. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
impetuous
guile
tarnished
aseptic
46. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
undermine
shallow
implosion
tamp
47. Tidy/show self-satisfaction
preen
protracted
phlegmatic
foible
48. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
churlish
propitious
veritable
phlegmatic
49. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
parley
vex
commodious
50. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
effrontery
onus
esoteric
indistinct