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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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english
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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. Boldness brashness intrepidness
implacable
temerity
forbear
slur
2. A possession
cavalcade
resort
desultory
punitive
3. Shy/modest (esp of a girl)
machination
chary
brazen
coy
4. Corrosive; sarcastic
dulcet
vitriolic
unearth
spear
5. Practicing self-denial austere stark
gloat
tassel
variegate
ascetic
6. Worthless outside part of anything
variegate
husk
turquoise
assuage
7. Continue doing something without resting
barren
plod
stint
homiletics
8. Deification glorification to godliness
petrous
apotheosis
sedulous
prolix
9. Menacing threatening
renovate
chaste
minatory
diatribe
10. Without preparation
perfidy
impromptu
officious
wag
11. Fearful timid afraid
timorous
perfidious
balk
palpability
12. Repeal or annul by authority
dangle
sponge
abrogate
pivotal
13. Pedant authority on a subject
peregrination
pundit
reminiscent
calisthenics
14. Crouch shrink back
conviction
cower
propagation
grovel
15. Get back by payment compensate
bandy
burgeon
redeem
rubicund
16. Idleness
gnaw
hubris
vacuity
parley
17. Adjective
skit
epithet
occluded
ail
18. Transparent gauzy
endemic
extinct
diaphanous
transitory
19. Speech lecture
austere
odor
discourse
lucubrate
20. No use person something that fails
lull
euthanasia
turgid
dud
21. Without preparation or forethought
divestiture
offhand
fringe
jocular
22. Immoral person
vindictive
laudatory
libertine
entangle
23. Incapable of failure or error
foolproof
vitiate
tyro
malign
24. A generator something that produces electric current
reiterate
lackluster
recidivism
dynamo
25. Dishonorable common undignified
succor
ignoble
temperance
pitfall
26. Give greatly needed support
erudite
derivative
bolster
effrontery
27. Having a toothed edge
blithe
peremptory
urbane
serrated
28. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
maverick
conciliatory
incongruous
undermine
29. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
wend
felicitous
invincible
ascend
30. A lament a melancholy composition
contrite
onerous
elegy
virago
31. Passage that completes a piece of music
catalyst
portent
sumptuous
coda
32. Persevering
conceal
snare
pertain
sedulous
33. Get to the root of
bandy
commodious
mellifluous
plumb
34. Brightly colored florid
fervor
flamboyant
maul
equivocate
35. Incapable of being placated unpleasable
pristine
figurehead
implacable
stymie
36. Publicly mock or ridicule
intransigent
fission
lampoon
countenance
37. One who considers himself smarter than others
dormant
aleck
salubrious
amalgamate
38. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
hallow
blatant
intransigence
striated
39. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
remonstrate
noxious
mien
propitious
40. Like a rock hard stony
occluded
petrous
illicit
wanton
41. Dull and slow
stygian
torpid
plod
diffidence
42. To polish rub to a shine
crass
aloof
peremptory
burnish
43. FALSE counterfeit
dereliction
spurious
elaborate
fragrant
44. Avoided - kept away from
impetuous
shunned
imprecation
bequest
45. Deceit cunning
dainty
guile
perch
pivotal
46. Personal mannerism
plethora
extempore
prone
idiosyncrasy
47. Wandering
peripatetic
extort
indefatigability
philanthropist
48. Get rid of pull up by the roots
eradicate
fragile
prodigious
foster
49. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
aversion
pith
mundane
misogynist
50. Deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
coerce
dereliction
pivotal
uncouth