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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. Witness/evidence
testiness
superfluous
attenuate
undermine
2. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
pest
quack
feral
empirical
3. One who turns towards himself
expiation
introvert
presentiment
panegyric
4. Polite and friendly
affable
onerous
succumb
splice
5. Person who attacks popular beliefs
immaculate
froward
iconoclast
pedestrian
6. Neat formal
prim
tamp
plead
machination
7. Obtain by threats violence
ostracism
extort
rabble
florid
8. Tiresome
burnish
irksome
hush
loll
9. A complex ornate design
finesse
odious
arabesque
bigot
10. Intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
belligerent
froward
precursory
expostulate
11. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
sullied
palate
slake
tautology
12. Being different in moral standards (from normal)
deviance
contiguous
illicit
gullible
13. Talkative garrulous
loquacious
jagged
benison
scorch
14. Talk vaguely and without much result
pique
knit
valorous
waffle
15. Wishing to do evil
welter
plod
reverent
malevolence
16. Threatening
bask
lope
ominous
cadge
17. Individually distinct
fagged
constrict
discrete
urbane
18. Bunch of threads
tassel
excoriation
conjoin
inscrutable
19. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
censure
sponge
dynamo
vigorous
20. To be stained or discredited
disheveled
emaciate
bedizen
sullied
21. Splitting or division (esp. of cells)
cajole
superfluous
fission
sober
22. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
myriad
didactic
nexus
dormant
23. To clear from a charge of guilt
roll
wanton
discern
exculpate
24. A supporting bar
restive
jabber
introspection
strut
25. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
penitent
attenuate
inept
vivacious
26. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
personable
ignominious
importune
retard
27. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
benevolence
suffocate
insinuate
obsequious
28. Get something inquire too curiously
tepid
misanthrope
heterogeneous
pry
29. Unlawful forbidden
venal
derogatory
illicit
propitious
30. Briefly without delay
summarily
volubility
penury
grave
31. Calmness of temperament
inured
shrill
contrite
equanimity
32. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
grievous
brazen
profligacy
hew
33. Formal reception/embankment
obviate
travesty
enzyme
levee
34. Measure hoe heavy something is
dulcet
weigh
squalid
churlish
35. Smell favor reputation
descry
odor
incipient
dissent
36. Present everywhere
glean
retrospective
insurrection
ubiquitous
37. Be enough
defiance
homiletics
lassitude
suffice
38. Write one's name on the back of
recreancy
distrait
endorse
soot
39. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
luminary
dissent
dupe
resilience
40. Able to float light-hearted
buoyant
harrow
veracity
puerile
41. Reddish - healthy-looking
ruddy
conundrum
brass
glib
42. Sweetly flowing
scabbard
exploit
nebulous
mellifluous
43. Trap
snare
defer
reticence
livid
44. Quality or condition of being sober
salubrious
loll
chastened
sobriety
45. Give comfort or sympathy to
proliferate
plea
console
timorous
46. Having a toothed edge
cryptic
serration
malapropism
profane
47. No use person something that fails
purvey
dud
immaculate
drowsiness
48. Eager/excited
agog
crease
petrified
exscind
49. Person who tells anecdotes
invective
strut
raconteur
gallant
50. Without sense foolish self-satisfaction
cryptic
castigate
propagation
fatuous