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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. Opening broken place breaking
breach
disallow
exculpate
onus
2. Act of preaching
pervade
homiletics
vitriolic
supine
3. Reddish - healthy-looking
snare
ruddy
mendacious
poncho
4. Engrave make a cut in
incise
invective
precursors
pillage
5. Make quiet or calm
appease
illicit
piquant
odium
6. Course of study
enunciate
abide
curriculum
trenchant
7. Strong dislike
aversion
argot
restive
neophyte
8. Self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
disparate
sophomoric
abjure
guile
9. Hurt by rough handling
encomium
prosaic
maul
chauvinist
10. Border on
provisional
snub
abut
felicitous
11. Change to a thick and solid state
gorge
coagulation
sober
ominous
12. Involving or using conversation.
scribble
knit
colloquial
defer
13. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
gloat
extirpate
satiate
abut
14. Brave
mesmerize
suppliant
valorous
tassel
15. Uncompromising
rife
platitude
intransigent
foolproof
16. State of growing vigorously being full of life
luminary
sobriquet
cohort
exuberance
17. Reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
resilience
proliferate
quixotic
flout
18. Twisting force causing rotation
ascribe
torque
volubility
toady
19. Aud a person of something
sheath
cant
mulct
turgid
20. Extreme poverty
moderation
penury
truce
massacre
21. Patience willingness to wait
nexus
apostate
forbearance
gust
22. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
hauteur
provoke
coda
clot
23. Person who attacks popular beliefs
molt
iconoclast
ossify
grumble
24. State or put forward as a necessary condition
argot
stipulate
gourmand
rancorous
25. Easily seen remarkable
allegiance
stigmatize
stifled
conspicuous
26. Prevent from carrying out contrast
espouse
clinch
refine
foil
27. To polish rub to a shine
burnish
vituperate
reverent
contumacious
28. Use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
embezzle
idyll
defer
insipid
29. Glut
hoodwink
hermetic
plethora
puerile
30. Stir up rouse
incite
piquant
profligate
commodious
31. Brutal racial discrimination
gaucherie
spurious
aversion
apartheid
32. Strenuous effort
arduous
lien
scalding
irresolute
33. Steel tool for shaping materials
entreat
trickle
negligent
chisel
34. Giving facts to support (statement)
substantiation
proscribe
barren
bandy
35. Trick mislead
abdication
scribble
inundate
hoodwink
36. Imminent being about to happen expected
extricable
personable
drawl
impending
37. Cowardly craven
enigma
aggravate
travesty
pusillanimous
38. Paint with dots
peccadillo
adorn
foil
stipple
39. Defying imitation unmatchable
profligacy
fulmination
hew
inimitable
40. Coming back to consciousness
resuscitation
vitiate
felicitous
perfunctory
41. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
glut
subsume
malinger
frantic
42. Lukewarm
inundate
wend
colander
tepid
43. To turn away (from a habit)
turpitude
wean
effete
cryptic
44. Anger
gust
iconoclast
ignoble
ire
45. Deliver provide represent
mendacious
snub
render
gloat
46. Intimidate make fearful
obdurate
weigh
blatant
daunt
47. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
pristine
abscond
nibble
trite
48. Person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
aspersion
salvage
phlegmatic
reprobate
49. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
grovel
highbrow
eddy
lumber
50. Burn slowly without flame
verdant
levee
smolder
acarpous