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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. Reproving a person for his faults
malinger
sermon
trudge
frenetic
2. Easily understood lucid clear
floe
berate
trenchant
luculent
3. Brave -behaves well with women
gallant
stickler
obsequious
laudatory
4. Self-controlled
irresolute
cursory
sober
corporeal
5. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
frugal
baneful
welter
exuberance
6. Directing the mind in a certain direction
inclined
nexus
streak
derision
7. Short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
abet
recant
sententious
neophyte
8. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
snub
vindictive
obloquy
poncho
9. Involving or using conversation.
veneration
inimitable
sheath
colloquial
10. Harmful or unfriendly
inimical
sequence
torment
impecunious
11. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
countenance
elaborate
cant
incongruous
12. Prevent from being known put an end to
suppress
teetotal
austere
wince
13. Rise fly high
intersperse
soar
stanch
travesty
14. To go proceed
wend
recast
sententious
mollify
15. Greatness in number strength weight
streak
myriad
temperate
preponderance
16. Tap or drive down by repeated light blows
boisterous
encomium
tamp
malinger
17. Disobedient
pliant
spurious
reactionary
recalcitrant
18. Provide supply
purvey
eschew
veracity
collusion
19. Talk vaguely and without much result
complaisant
waffle
encumbrance
impetuous
20. Witness/evidence
coddle
testiness
bequest
sketchy
21. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
rotund
antithetical
defiance
dainty
22. Contempt dislike aversion
cabal
veneration
duress
odium
23. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
expatiate
retrospective
calipers
turpitude
24. To complain
waffle
grumble
ingest
disingenuous
25. Bad-tempered irritable
dissolution
splenetic
cloture
burnish
26. One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner.
predominate
tractable
antidote
harbinger
27. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
mettle
boggle
highbrow
legacy
28. Make nervous or confused
fluster
ulterior
nexus
revere
29. Summary or outline
profligacy
rotund
synopsis
paucity
30. Wander lose one's way
sporadic
heresy
sobriquet
stray
31. Substance used to absorb moisture
privation
fidelity
desiccant
feckless
32. Still in existence
odor
paucity
extant
sermon
33. Edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
fringe
lope
disconcert
detraction
34. Conciliatory appeasing mitigating
consequential
propitiatory
detraction
pertain
35. Disapprove of
disrobe
decry
brook
exigency
36. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
cloture
pest
verdant
reactionary
37. Cannot be cured or corrected
countervail
incorrigibility
foment
churlish
38. Satisfy fully
satiate
fecund
coagulation
discredit
39. Quick judging and understanding
calisthenics
amalgamate
flax
perspicacity
40. Person of great learning
paucity
savant
trickle
grumble
41. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
impending
mesmerize
insurrection
impassive
42. Claw of a bird of prey
talon
foolproof
punctilious
eradicate
43. Arrangement to give something at death
fidget
bequest
purvey
unearth
44. Make or become soft by soaking in water
macerate
abeyance
glib
disparate
45. Lose courage turn frightened
incorrigibility
quail
obfuscate
cordon
46. Negotiation
inculcate
forage
parley
sporadic
47. Apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
exigency
abide
felicitous
ascribe
48. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
torque
skiff
importune
legacy
49. Feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
sanity
partisan
qualm
writ
50. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
pique
snub
pugnacious
pliant