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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Settle a quarrel restore peace
valorous
prim
fervid
reconcile
2. Self-confidence
rejuvenation
engrave
pliant
aplomb
3. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
turmoil
soar
feckless
admonitory
4. Opening broken place breaking
breach
veritable
occluded
personable
5. Challenged to be doubted
impugned
paean
goad
perfidious
6. Treat with contempt
contrite
snub
epicurean
convoluted
7. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
astute
sober
pertain
crush
8. To be involved
apt
astute
lackluster
implicate
9. Ready to do something dishonest
abeyance
venal
disallow
forbearance
10. Physical of or for the body
torpid
corporeal
diatribe
forge
11. Personal mannerism
preponderance
misanthrope
idiosyncrasy
sophistry
12. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
discountenance
elaborate
centurion
recreancy
13. Disintegration looseness in morals
eloquence
expedient
dissolution
streak
14. Too talkative
connote
endeavor
garrulous
hack
15. Transparent easy to understand
soporific
inscrutable
pellucid
discomfit
16. Slow way of speaking
whimsical
exuberance
maudlin
drawl
17. Abundant/lavish
parenthesis
profuse
barren
eloquence
18. Medicine used against a poison or a disease
antidote
recuperate
taut
recidivism
19. Person who hates mankind
contentious
procrastination
misanthrope
equilibrium
20. To join together
luminary
opaqueness
abdication
conjoin
21. Taste flavor something
connote
pristine
deprave
savor
22. Take the whole attention - enslave
prevaricate
suppress
enthral
covetous
23. Favorable successful prosperous
inferno
connotation
impending
auspicious
24. Having a desire to revenge
bellicose
grumble
vindictive
epitome
25. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
dormant
redeem
fret
hush
26. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
sting
vigilance
apostate
divestiture
27. Quality or condition of being sober
malign
sobriety
calisthenics
irresolute
28. Provide supply
overweening
provisional
mite
purvey
29. Frank straight-forward
candid
impute
consternation
liberality
30. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
harbinger
shun
arabesque
extinct
31. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
sting
vindictive
brash
spurn
32. Interfere with
disparate
moderation
tamper
imprecation
33. Move restlessly make nervous
relapse
ferocity
graze
fidget
34. Lacking solidarity - strength
vain
proclivity
spurious
flimsy
35. Responsilibilty -burden
onus
incite
chisel
perfunctory
36. A complex ornate design
arabesque
hush
extricable
clamor
37. Shining brilliant
exuberance
quack
refulgent
myriad
38. Stubborn narrow-minded person
endorse
bigot
manacle
misanthrope
39. Without preparation or forethought
ruddy
lien
offhand
acclaimed
40. Effete no longer fertile worn out
pinch
rapacious
acarpous
argot
41. Person who has been converted to a belief
neophyte
appease
gist
decry
42. Act with excessive enthusiasm
incite
rave
disencumber
prune
43. Denounce as dangerous
proscribe
impiety
encomium
constrain
44. Taken away power (to think feel act)
lustrous
obfuscate
petrified
commodious
45. Easily gulled
solvent
raconteur
gullible
earthenware
46. Skill (esp. in handling)
garner
plunge
whimsical
dexterity
47. To make hard rocklike
covert
petrify
equivocate
officious
48. Have more power than others
predominate
inane
auxiliary
apartheid
49. Very great (es. stupidity)
congeal
effluvia
reticent
crass
50. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
mischievous
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
bolster
truce