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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. Crude offensive rude
itinerate
crush
boorish
mulct
2. Of the same period coexisting
indulgent
evince
piquant
coeval
3. Bad-tempered irritable
forfeit
splenetic
legacy
defer
4. Attract - lure
console
entice
hoi
trudge
5. Puzzle confuse
resort
repudiate
bewilder
predominate
6. Looking back on past
retrospective
inchoate
spear
heed
7. Twisting force causing rotation
retrograde
repine
heresy
torque
8. Weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
spear
constrain
complaisant
ensconce
9. Carved image on the prow of a ship
morbid
attune
rubicund
figurehead
10. Extreme poverty
castigate
gregarious
penury
aplomb
11. Easily done
chisel
petulant
grave
facile
12. Physical beauty
dynamo
valiant
pulchritude
flout
13. Walk heavily
recant
flak
trudge
conviction
14. Attractive on the surface but of little value
salubrious
truce
meretricious
opprobrious
15. Line (of police acting as a guard)
sanction
obdurate
cordon
incise
16. Hurt by rough handling
maul
sententious
felon
mendacity
17. Be enough
ambidextrous
suffice
illicit
temerity
18. Harmful
concoct
blandness
noxious
matriculation
19. Lying on the back slow to act passive
candid
recitals
supine
latent
20. Cheerful confident optimistic
sanguine
fidget
wean
scribble
21. A repetition a redundancy
irrevocable
tautology
ingenuous
preclude
22. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
palate
reciprocity
crush
centurion
23. Habit or action peculiar to something
erudite
quirk
blatant
shun
24. Surprise and fear dismay
consternation
didactic
retard
quandary
25. Hot enough to boil
expatiate
scalding
indigenous
cryptic
26. Prayer
corporeal
stride
orison
penury
27. Write hastily
scribble
recluse
extol
dote
28. Brave -behaves well with women
detraction
dearth
gallant
jagged
29. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
chastened
entreat
chicanery
restive
30. A number of performance of music
recidivism
blandishment
expostulate
recitals
31. Make or become stiff and solid
congeal
undulate
emote
flamboyant
32. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
ignominious
sporadic
deter
mischievous
33. Additional load/charge
grumble
requite
surcharge
propitiatory
34. Something urging a person to action
stray
goad
prudence
fallacious
35. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
abet
mettle
incense
meticulous
36. A trick
veneer
conjoin
wile
orison
37. Fill with fury or rage
truculence
weigh
infuriate
entangle
38. Worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
fetid
mundane
equable
desultory
39. Burden things that get on the way of
emote
ebullience
encumbrance
vex
40. Great flood heavy rush of water
somatic
deluge
valorous
perfidious
41. Spirit vigor enthusiasm
teetotal
snare
deplete
verve
42. Depth
discountenance
profundity
ebullience
obfuscate
43. Waste away bite steadily
gnaw
enervate
dearth
reproach
44. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
petrous
vigilance
cower
pry
45. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
exploit
timid
malinger
gorge
46. Existing in a wild or untamed state
effete
feral
thwart
recast
47. Humorous funny jocular
conciliatory
sumptuous
dynamo
facetious
48. To resist separation
cling
tyro
gullible
allegiance
49. Hand or swing loosely
inured
dangle
truculence
shallow
50. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
bellicose
tamp
permeate
propitious