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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Likely to be useful for a purpose
assuage
disconcert
expedient
mulct
2. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
concoct
propagation
incise
repel
3. Say or do again several times
inclined
recompense
misanthrope
reiterate
4. Person who attacks popular beliefs
solvent
arboreal
iconoclast
irrevocable
5. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
exigency
ponderous
covetous
disallow
6. Passage that completes a piece of music
baneful
evince
coda
vacuity
7. Easily done
facile
concur
exploit
caustic
8. Insubordinate rebellious
embellish
jocular
sanguine
contumacious
9. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
cantankerous
supersede
deprecate
pest
10. State of being balanced
stray
equilibrium
ambivalent
sawdust
11. Disobedient
malevolence
redoubtable
facetious
recalcitrant
12. Step to one side
dissemble
constrict
sidestep
slur
13. Make a lower bid then somebody else
underbid
verisimilitude
inept
presentiment
14. Obstruct/frustrate
upbraid
submerge
refulgent
thwart
15. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
facetious
engrossing
bedizen
impervious
16. Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
peripatetic
animosity
baneful
abysmal
17. Bad-tempered person
deposition
supine
imperviousness
curmudgeon
18. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
dilate
renowned
adamant
19. See with an effort but clearly
discern
gouge
vestige
resuscitation
20. Strong convincing
preclude
cogent
upbraid
sequence
21. To cut out cut away
minatory
presentiment
epiphany
exscind
22. Quality of endurance or courage
implicate
hew
mettle
seminal
23. Too economical miserly
parsimonious
lackluster
qualm
mendicant
24. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
gouge
abdication
feral
incorrigibility
25. Like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
adamant
entangle
chastened
foppish
26. To resist separation
floe
enzyme
consternation
cling
27. Spread through every part of
pervade
impute
obsequious
superfluous
28. Write hastily
scribble
plaintive
ensign
resort
29. Make thin and weak
emaciate
sere
sanity
edify
30. Containing warning
admonitory
apartheid
multifarious
divulge
31. Snub
rebuff
boggle
forfeit
edacious
32. Various miscellaneous separate
agog
sundry
lustrous
amalgamate
33. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
incursion
florid
variegate
soporific
34. Glut
blase
entice
plethora
epiphany
35. Scarcity a lacking of
paucity
dogmatic
forbearance
renowned
36. Haughtiness
hauteur
correlate
curtail
sanction
37. Suspended action
commuter
sporadic
abeyance
slur
38. Lack of seriousness
incite
levity
sagacious
extirpate
39. Boldness impudence arrogance
complaisant
fatuous
effrontery
recant
40. Something giving strength or energy
stanch
dolt
tonic
prodigious
41. Native
apprehensive
molt
reprobate
indigenous
42. Belong as a part have reference
sedulous
soar
qualm
pertain
43. Without use result conceited
vain
emote
forfeit
cumbersome
44. Not normal or usual
preternatural
sponge
inept
aggravate
45. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
petulant
supine
foible
ramify
46. Jargon slang
vigilance
suppress
florid
argot
47. Care economy thriving prosperous
agog
thrift
superimpose
oblivious
48. Magnificent
palatial
coddle
erudite
vacuity
49. Agreeably pungent stimulating
yarn
ascetic
egress
piquant
50. Forgery
decree
recidivism
counterfeit
portent