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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. Native
fagged
unearth
extirpate
indigenous
2. Frank straight-forward
mettlesome
candid
variegate
engrossing
3. Angry
irate
secular
tepid
obtuse
4. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
resigned
sequence
pith
spear
5. Neat formal
chastisement
brazen
prim
parenthesis
6. Made of brass
brazen
insensible
stickler
aspersion
7. Waste away bite steadily
flamboyant
personable
stickler
gnaw
8. Punishing
disingenuous
woo
flaunting
punitive
9. To beg to get by begging
waft
cadge
effete
scorch
10. Taste flavor something
pugnacious
savor
flop
abet
11. Repulsive hateful
odious
equanimity
disencumber
swerve
12. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
pucker
crush
abrogate
contemn
13. Belong as a part have reference
profligate
pertain
ignominious
desiccant
14. Easy and painless death
euthanasia
endeavor
putrefaction
spurn
15. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
lumber
lavish
churlish
obstreperous
16. To chastise correct by punishing
brass
lionize
castigate
cogitate
17. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
palate
fagged
drone
itinerate
18. Slandering verbal attack aspersion
fluke
swerve
detraction
dereliction
19. Propriety properness
rejuvenation
oblivious
decorum
concur
20. Unreasonably impatient
hirsute
petulant
remonstrate
supercilious
21. To bring about
supersede
Conduce
embezzle
divestiture
22. Strength
frenetic
puissance
pugnacious
dirge
23. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
ail
baneful
didactic
relapse
24. Healthful
plaintive
deter
salubrious
surfeit
25. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
castigate
sere
convoluted
26. Omen marvelous threatening
equivocate
portent
livid
petrified
27. Not pretended sincere
resilience
unfeigned
prone
augury
28. Blocked up
retinue
occluded
abide
indigence
29. Join (two ends)
enduring
equanimity
cornucopia
splice
30. Involving or using conversation.
glut
acclaimed
belabor
colloquial
31. A piece of broken pottery
shard
massacre
sidestep
chauvinist
32. Insincere talk/jargon
cant
protracted
permeate
empirical
33. Doubtful uncertain
asterisk
consequential
ambiguous
burgeon
34. Looking ill - not bright
wan
deviance
plod
shun
35. Greatly surprised
splice
nonplused
plummet
broach
36. To hate to detest
privation
offhand
requite
abhor
37. At be discontented with
burgeon
asterisk
repine
matriculation
38. Lacking solidarity - strength
inveterate
flimsy
deviance
partisan
39. To make hard rocklike
veneration
brook
petrify
impute
40. Scent waving movement carry lightly through
belligerent
waft
arrant
lope
41. Negotiation
parley
profligate
abdication
cordon
42. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
ramify
apprise
eloquence
prim
43. Plundering
depredation
alacrity
epiphany
sluggard
44. Try to win
woo
hoodwink
salvage
turgid
45. Make (pain) easier to bear
abysmal
rebus
deluge
alleviate
46. Spending using unwillingly
perfidious
stingy
veneer
thrift
47. Winding undulating serpentine
sinuous
aloof
perspicacity
evasive
48. One-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
partisan
tawdry
forbearance
ramify
49. Practicing self-denial austere stark
irrevocable
ascetic
buoyant
recidivism
50. To go proceed
dirge
stygian
telltale
wend