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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. Implied though not plainly expressed
pyre
implicit
sermon
exuberance
2. Warning sign
gnaw
flaunting
presage
dangle
3. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
perjury
torque
connote
extricable
4. Diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
soggy
morbid
ardor
avid
5. Person who insists on importance of something
coruscate
indigence
excoriation
stickler
6. A complex ornate design
arabesque
surcharge
talon
eradicate
7. Coming together and uniting into one substance
belligerent
coalescing
derogatory
retrograde
8. Tactless clumsy
aspersion
refulgent
maladroit
ignoble
9. Giving great attention to details
meticulous
allegiance
epitome
cantankerous
10. Regular customer person who gives support
aberration
patron
endemic
gainsay
11. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
dissemble
duplicity
sheath
hallow
12. Production of a desired result
covetous
pugnacious
reciprocity
efficacy
13. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
cantankerous
latent
aversion
blase
14. Adjective
enthral
epithet
cumbersome
avow
15. Male bee person who isn't self-employed
quack
drone
inscrutable
nugatory
16. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
putrefaction
boggle
connoisseur
equable
17. Calm sluggish temperament unemotional
reticent
asperity
dismal
phlegmatic
18. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
reprobate
avow
quell
lithe
19. Move restlessly make nervous
luminary
deposition
idyll
fidget
20. Suddenly changeable
waft
tangential
elicit
clamor
21. Alarm excited state of mind
cornucopia
enthral
apprehensive
trepidation
22. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
obviate
scabbard
implacable
imperviousness
23. Leather case for a pistol
extempore
vindictive
holster
expedient
24. Sealed by fusion
hermetic
frenetic
mite
punitive
25. Person who has given help
raffish
compunction
benefactor
propitiatory
26. Use extravagant language
reproach
odium
peregrination
rant
27. Granting of privileges in return for similar
jibe
inferno
precarious
reciprocity
28. Having a toothed edge
serration
requite
incongruous
distrait
29. Disobedient
prosaic
recalcitrant
inquest
seminal
30. Take the place of
supersede
shallow
temperate
coeval
31. Additional strengthening evidence
argot
fragile
corroboration
arabesque
32. Person who is slow waste of time
relapse
palliate
dawdler
abscond
33. Repayment death of Jesus
disinter
atonement
perish
preen
34. Bitter and violent attack in words
sting
diatribe
sordid
recreancy
35. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
impair
gourmand
abysmal
augury
36. To speak harmful untruths about someone
malign
resuscitation
ponderous
apostate
37. Polloi the masses the rabble
obviate
hoi
truculence
incessant
38. Careful economical
aversion
frugal
drawl
overweening
39. Forgive
condone
refine
squalid
hypocrisy
40. A group or band of people
slur
conundrum
cohort
fluster
41. Agree in opinion happen together
implicate
concur
quail
fecund
42. Skill (esp. in handling)
vitriolic
resuscitation
vituperate
dexterity
43. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
baneful
gossamer
talon
ferocity
44. Catch sight of see something in the distance
descry
restive
surcharge
exigency
45. Border on
prudish
abut
stymie
waffle
46. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
feckless
derivative
temperance
stingy
47. Confuse embarrass
discomfit
loquacious
eclat
deprecate
48. Strong convincing
cornucopia
cogent
suffocate
germane
49. Not normal or usual
suppliant
preternatural
plethora
legacy
50. Engrave make a cut in
morose
quixotic
efface
incise