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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. Speech lecture
clot
petrified
discourse
discreet
2. Easily controlled or guided
engrave
meticulous
tractable
pitfall
3. Split crack dissension
lull
predominate
salubrious
rift
4. Obvious
Palpable
iconoclast
miser
profane
5. No use person something that fails
countervail
entangle
aggravate
dud
6. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
supine
suffice
drowsiness
balk
7. Able to fly trained experienced
reproach
extempore
yeoman
fledged
8. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
brash
exuberance
brass
lurk
9. Making dear or liked
impiety
endearing
convoluted
torque
10. Little depth not earnest
foil
implicate
collusion
shallow
11. Break off
abut
propitious
burgeon
sever
12. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
pugnacious
benefactor
refine
apostate
13. Feeling of regret for one's action
assuage
shrewd
tortuous
compunction
14. Mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
reminiscent
shunned
scribble
beguile
15. Not soled with hole
intransigence
censure
hollow
obloquy
16. Break go beyond (a limit)
transgress
lien
dogmatic
curmudgeon
17. Expressing or giving praise
laudatory
chisel
flak
dwarf
18. Can be felt touched understood
laudatory
palpability
striated
entangle
19. Coming back to consciousness
ameliorate
apostate
taciturn
resuscitation
20. Enthusiasm
covert
ossify
ardor
misogynist
21. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
extol
grovel
turgid
predilection
22. Become quiet or less active
palatial
lull
barrage
ascribe
23. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
bask
demagogue
libertine
graze
24. Put into difficulties
timorous
mite
burgeon
entangle
25. Lessen the severity of
palliate
fervor
demagogue
inimitable
26. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
yarn
ingenuous
prone
stint
27. Of the power of forming a solution
disinter
solvent
dote
finicky
28. Deceit cunning
guile
impromptu
macabre
brazen
29. Shallow place in a river (to cross)
ford
berate
brook
nostrum
30. Childish
soar
sanity
sophomoric
puerile
31. Magnificent
palatial
involute
wan
gorge
32. Dishonorable common undignified
ramify
sadastic
involute
ignoble
33. Nickname
maudlin
disseminate
sobriquet
prodigious
34. Prayer
prodigious
cumbersome
orison
feint
35. Crawl humble oneself
crush
grovel
onus
parenthesis
36. A trick
inane
wile
valorous
incipient
37. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
congeal
hermetic
sheath
suffocate
38. Equal distribution of weight equilibrium
engrave
equipoise
susceptibility
impugned
39. Wish or activity in doing good
succor
lavish
benevolence
garrulous
40. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
enigma
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
ambivalent
lope
41. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
eddy
pious
multifarious
endearing
42. Of mixed colors
discredit
penchant
pied
adamant
43. Course of study
impetuous
fallacious
curriculum
piquant
44. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
interim
combustion
submerge
boisterous
45. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
ruddy
bigot
writ
46. Boldness impudence arrogance
ferret
pyre
trepidation
effrontery
47. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
garrulous
abet
drowsiness
fledgling
48. Abundant/lavish
forage
profuse
endearing
stolid
49. Deification glorification to godliness
apotheosis
incredulous
unfeigned
paucity
50. Sparkle
spurious
upbraid
coruscate
apotheosis