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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. Vexation
disconcert
chagrin
platitude
condone
2. Show feel great sorrow
hapless
superimpose
forswear
lament
3. Self-controlled
haughty
propinquity
finicky
sober
4. Repeal/annul/cancel
rescind
yarn
unearth
wan
5. One who hates women/females
misogynist
exorbitant
extrovert
shrewd
6. Not easily heard seen clearly marked
partisan
cornucopia
pervade
indistinct
7. Dried plum silly person
irate
prune
aspersion
intersperse
8. Reddish - healthy-looking
ruddy
sundry
duplicity
suffice
9. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
bellicose
edify
simper
submerge
10. Become quiet or less active
compunction
mendacious
lull
prolix
11. Quality of endurance or courage
stolid
reprobate
mettle
baneful
12. Shining brilliant
fixate
pundit
refulgent
yarn
13. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
inveigh
recuperate
snub
figurehead
14. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
intransigent
odious
propinquity
equable
15. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
conciliatory
Palpable
cloture
turquoise
16. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
crush
derivative
quibble
contrite
17. Direct opposing
antithetical
dismal
repudiate
opprobrious
18. To chastise correct by punishing
teetotal
penitent
castigate
defiance
19. Severing
temperance
pugnacious
expostulate
severance
20. Easily understood lucid clear
irascible
propitious
luculent
colloquial
21. Stone used for sharpening tools
vehemence
hone
jejune
covert
22. Glut
sober
plethora
heresy
forestall
23. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
sobriety
scribble
daunt
eddy
24. Keep the memory of
boorish
commemorate
bigot
epithet
25. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
constrain
indefatigability
highbrow
redeem
26. Silly senseless
fleet
testiness
somatic
inane
27. Suggest something in the past
fulsome
reminiscent
interim
benevolence
28. Truth
consternation
foible
veracity
didactic
29. Of the same period coexisting
indolence
coeval
clamor
maudlin
30. A riddle dilemma enigma
premature
conundrum
sanguine
fawn
31. Too strong to be defeated
impermeable
impudent
invincible
tyro
32. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
retrospective
sententious
smolder
salubrious
33. To lessen to subside
grievous
reiterate
sanction
abate
34. Person who insists on importance of something
discomfit
undermine
stickler
curmudgeon
35. Warmth of feelings earnestness
sluggard
fervor
taunt
canvass
36. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
hew
specious
florid
imprecation
37. Doing or happening something before the right time
fagged
fatuous
wend
premature
38. To protest object
obtuse
ardor
remonstrate
saturnine
39. Helping supporting
malleable
auxiliary
lull
fledgling
40. Uncertain risky dangerous
taut
precarious
drawl
suffocate
41. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
fulmination
cravat
levity
blatant
42. Wish or activity in doing good
patron
craven
benevolence
bellicose
43. A blindly devoted patriot
cohort
sundry
scalding
chauvinist
44. Care economy thriving prosperous
thrift
aspersion
resuscitation
austere
45. Immoral person
libertine
hirsute
topple
suppress
46. Noisy quarrel
recluse
fracas
procrastination
expedient
47. One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
quibble
malleable
apostate
umbrage
48. Forgery
counterfeit
weigh
credulity
perish
49. Threatening
stolid
abysmal
apartheid
ominous
50. Material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
pileous
embezzle
secular
abraded