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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. Surprise and fear dismay
drowsiness
consternation
weigh
sanity
2. Crawl humble oneself
partisan
grovel
proscribe
odor
3. Receding
expedient
luminary
assiduous
retrograde
4. Make thin and weak
grovel
rescind
emaciate
lucubrate
5. Fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
volubility
suppress
rancorous
lionize
6. Extreme poverty
penury
vituperate
frugal
transient
7. Incapable of being discovered or understood
doleful
inscrutable
distraught
temperance
8. (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
truce
voluptuous
apropos
cajole
9. Straying away from what is normal
repast
concoct
aberration
accolade
10. Snub
forbearance
rebuff
grandiloquent
suffocate
11. Greedy (esp for money)
salutary
rapacious
Conduce
tractable
12. Pure faultless
stigmatize
emaciate
immaculate
inscrutable
13. To make great efforts - to struggle
regale
balk
extricable
strive
14. Fairly good but not very good
middling
exculpate
revere
phlegmatic
15. Treat with contempt
snub
droll
obtuse
miser
16. Lasting
insensible
enduring
mettle
derogatory
17. Increase in density strength make laconic
fleet
condense
flaunting
levee
18. Not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
prudence
teetotal
craven
inchoate
19. Avoided - kept away from
macerate
ignoble
aspersion
shunned
20. Repulsive hateful
odious
elicit
stride
telltale
21. Line (of police acting as a guard)
putrefaction
protracted
supersede
cordon
22. Invent - prepare by mixing together
cordon
concoct
inclined
corporeal
23. Place here and there
perfunctory
conundrum
sober
intersperse
24. Very great number
disrobe
boisterous
myriad
gourmand
25. Use extravagant language
extinct
rant
obtain
foible
26. Make by hard work cut (by striking)
rescind
hew
ineptitude
foible
27. Bunch of threads
extenuate
tassel
renovate
condense
28. Kind of stone inflexible
itinerate
tamper
gerontocracy
adamant
29. Bending twisting
lithe
peregrination
trenchant
shunt
30. Engrave make a cut in
negligent
fallacious
bigot
incise
31. Bold
travesty
placate
dwarf
audacious
32. Banal everyday
temperate
heinous
quotidian
epithet
33. Complicated and embarrassing situation
fecund
imbroglio
gust
pervade
34. Violent cruel man
abut
ruffian
salacious
secular
35. Intimidate make fearful
paean
stymie
edify
daunt
36. A connection tie or link
blatant
pucker
nexus
quandary
37. Angry
irate
cogent
fidelity
adulteration
38. Official duties
parsimonious
incumbents
superimpose
dexterity
39. Omen marvelous threatening
decree
calumny
expiation
portent
40. Written order
precarious
ruddy
writ
fission
41. Magnificent
sumptuous
upbraid
incense
doggerel
42. Over look at with selfish delight
slake
beatify
gloat
fecund
43. Feeling bitterness spitefulness
discountenance
sever
extant
rancorous
44. Health of mind soundness of judgment
appease
endeavor
sanity
baneful
45. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
incongruous
submerge
recreancy
pied
46. Person appealing not to reasons
demagogue
accretion
ferret
pith
47. Becoming rotten
abysmal
putrefaction
vivacious
consequential
48. Fertile
duplicity
maul
fecund
halcyon
49. Yield - die
arabesque
succumb
inured
highbrow
50. Tiresome
moribund
irksome
tyro
amalgamate