SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Pcat Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
servile
exploit
garner
prudish
2. Inclination
unscathed
sporadic
proclivity
abate
3. End (a debt) by setting aside money
amortize
evasive
abscond
lurk
4. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
gust
petrify
quotidian
philistine
5. Too eager or ready to help offer advice
reproach
vex
panegyric
officious
6. Production of a desired result
efficacy
superfluous
mince
nascent
7. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
disconcert
procrastination
ineffable
obloquy
8. Cheerful casual carefree
blithe
vain
enduring
distraught
9. A song of grief or lamentation
guile
nebulous
dirge
accrue
10. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
heterogeneous
beatify
astute
animosity
11. Meticulous
exhaustive
inimical
pique
punctilious
12. Physical of or for the body
gaucherie
corporeal
deviance
piquant
13. Wasteful reckless with money
prodigal
extirpate
coddle
chisel
14. Happening from time to time
grouse
glimmer
legacy
sporadic
15. Excessive admiration of
palliate
ardor
anguish
idolatry
16. Line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
ail
crease
intersperse
tenacity
17. Untidy
disheveled
veneration
rubicund
valiant
18. To make great efforts - to struggle
unearth
strive
divergence
harbinger
19. Improve make better
vanquish
parenthesis
impute
ameliorate
20. Statement that damages reputation
transient
veneer
libel
chagrin
21. Soft light delicate material
gossamer
adulteration
odium
succor
22. Obscene
aspersion
salacious
empirical
livid
23. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
slate
cursory
shun
24. Showing earnest feeling
fervid
elaborate
abrogate
moribund
25. Suggestion in addition to
abdication
pry
broach
connotation
26. Muddy having the sediment stirred up
abacus
turbid
pedestrian
foment
27. Like a rock hard stony
dainty
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
petrous
elicit
28. Person who flatter to the rich and powerful
pied
treacherous
stolid
sycophant
29. Anticipatory fear; premonition
credulity
ferment
fledgling
presentiment
30. Crouch shrink back
precepts
defer
cower
pied
31. Try to avoid by sophistication
quibble
eddy
drawl
chicanery
32. Be out of view ready to attack
lurk
conjoin
malevolence
glut
33. Not pretended sincere
unfeigned
refractory
partisan
defer
34. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
obstreperous
cadge
vagary
gush
35. The mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
lackluster
cognizant
asterisk
apartheid
36. To gather and save to store up
garner
rift
supersede
churlish
37. Refuse to believe
temerity
discredit
invincible
incise
38. Strong energetic
abhor
countervail
chagrin
vigorous
39. Break go beyond (a limit)
salubrious
harbinger
verve
transgress
40. Sound in judgment wise
deviance
fetid
salacious
judicious
41. Lack of reverence or dutifulness
noxious
espouse
chicanery
impiety
42. Health of mind soundness of judgment
hermetic
amalgamate
sanity
picaresque
43. Forcefulness
vehemence
provident
baleful
ingest
44. Giving great attention to details
accretion
ferocity
meticulous
impugned
45. Call together summon
onus
convoke
astute
indigenous
46. Omen marvelous threatening
credulity
deposition
topple
portent
47. Various miscellaneous separate
turpitude
hospitable
sundry
severance
48. A long passionate speech
harangue
extant
supersede
incense
49. Make worse irritate
dangle
credulous
aggravate
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
50. Show bodily or mental pain
sponge
personable
wince
proliferate