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. To speak harmful untruths about someone
weigh
obtain
malign
quiescence
2. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
asperity
repel
commemorate
refine
3. Sharp piercing
wag
shrill
noxious
paradigm
4. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
duplicity
shrewd
spurn
exculpate
5. Tiny bits of wood
sententious
desiccant
grandiloquent
sawdust
6. Commanding haughty arrogant
countervail
susceptibility
morbid
imperious
7. Strong dislike
extralegal
animosity
skiff
ostensible
8. Habit or action peculiar to something
endemic
pious
extort
quirk
9. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
discern
sequence
expostulate
introspection
10. Taking off getting rid of giving up
divestiture
tautology
pitfall
nugatory
11. To shackle put in chains
fetter
palliate
prevalent
libertine
12. Wishing to do evil
thwart
salvage
malevolence
incite
13. Soft light delicate material
gossamer
abscond
hypocrisy
cling
14. To delight or entertain to feast
fret
earthenware
yeoman
regale
15. To distress create stress or torment
acclaimed
fulmination
qualm
harrow
16. Get to know
ascertain
perjury
exscind
protracted
17. Health of mind soundness of judgment
sanity
extrovert
alacrity
ingest
18. Suggest something in the past
stifled
tonic
reminiscent
sluggard
19. An invocation of evil a curse
gauche
imperative
reactionary
imprecation
20. Patience willingness to wait
putrefaction
nadir
forbearance
infuriate
21. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
aloof
malleable
prone
22. Talkative garrulous
cant
tepid
loquacious
procrastination
23. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
maudlin
recant
perfidy
24. To tolerate endure
agog
pucker
pillage
brook
25. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
steeply
rarefy
renowned
nostrum
26. To take in marriage
conceal
tangential
emaciate
espouse
27. Praise approval
aloof
floe
accolade
mendacity
28. Containing warning
bask
admonitory
refulgent
dereliction
29. Lucky stroke
pileous
fluke
spear
mundane
30. Complete thorough
exhaustive
conceit
enunciate
epithet
31. Too strong to be defeated
pyre
dangle
avow
invincible
32. Unharmed unhurt
rubicund
inveterate
unscathed
pugnacious
33. Unimportant
obtain
trifling
deposition
imperious
34. Bombastic
yeoman
fustian
rejuvenation
appease
35. (person) with superior tastes
graze
highbrow
halcyon
jocular
36. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
gush
ruffian
epicurean
cajole
37. To complain
prevaricate
grumble
dainty
gregarious
38. Self-confidence
bedizen
falter
aplomb
odium
39. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
salutary
ponderous
ignoble
approbation
40. Call together summon
scabbard
imbroglio
bogus
convoke
41. Wickedness shamefulness
luculent
finesse
steeply
turpitude
42. A complex ornate design
arabesque
nonplused
Palpable
arduous
43. Treat with contempt
foolproof
snub
ineluctable
acumen
44. Learned scholarly
garrulous
erudite
germane
cantankerous
45. Banal everyday
augury
morbid
crush
quotidian
46. Person much smaller the usual size
dwarf
salutary
soggy
precepts
47. Sensitiveness
fret
susceptibility
extort
pileous
48. Be admitted enter a university as a student
apprehensive
matriculation
nostrum
thwart
49. Like a seed constituting a source originative
deter
acclaimed
seminal
saturnine
50. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
ebullience
occluded
inchoate
alacrity