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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. Made of brass
brazen
unfeigned
hospitable
mesmerize
2. A song of grief or lamentation
attune
dirge
delineate
livid
3. Severe suffering
taciturn
refractory
officious
anguish
4. To be involved
mendacious
implicate
irascible
epithet
5. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
dogmatic
shunt
cloture
splice
6. Person who insists on importance of something
stickler
idyll
deluge
boorish
7. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
accretion
equivocate
palate
austere
8. Flow in drops
floe
trencherman
trickle
streak
9. Bunch of threads
tassel
impassive
desuetude
implicate
10. Haughty arrogant commanding
insipid
imperviousness
occluded
ensign
11. To show clearly to indicate
blatant
evince
divulge
curtail
12. Being uncertain hesitating
ferocity
superimpose
impetuous
vacillation
13. Healthful
uncouth
salubrious
centurion
ignoble
14. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
palate
mollify
probity
submerge
15. Hinder get in the way of
pillage
impede
hapless
breach
16. Widespread
perish
rife
hapless
plod
17. Join sounds/words (indistinct)
dexterity
condone
slur
fracas
18. Becoming young in nature or appearance
rejuvenation
esoteric
hallow
equivocate
19. Counterbalance
proclivity
countervail
ferret
rife
20. Trifling/worthless
eddy
fluster
calisthenics
nugatory
21. Temporary fleeting
transient
conceal
extol
harbinger
22. Reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
rivet
narcissism
mendacity
extenuate
23. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
finical
voluble
quotidian
timid
24. Insubordinate rebellious
slate
ameliorate
fulsome
contumacious
25. Refrain from be patient ancestor
succumb
austere
forbear
torque
26. Long thin move very fast
frantic
streak
encapsulate
ecumenical
27. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
profane
offhand
salutary
barren
28. Free giving generosity
liberality
assuage
inasmuch
boggle
29. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
appease
defalcate
meticulous
abysmal
30. Disguised
garner
perish
covert
accrue
31. Opening broken place breaking
fledgling
plead
breach
clot
32. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
chastisement
slate
gouge
coda
33. Suddenly changeable
lien
tangential
venal
rescind
34. Make something (pain desire) less
raconteur
assuage
rapacious
inscrutable
35. Dejected
gregarious
vain
rueful
exigency
36. Cruel killing of a large number of people
massacre
nebulous
abide
obtuse
37. Obvious
exscind
Palpable
flop
extrovert
38. Fluent
dote
belligerent
ineffable
voluble
39. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
idyll
impediment
importune
iconoclast
40. Get something inquire too curiously
stipulate
pry
benign
prodigious
41. Poverty
floe
indigence
dormant
propagation
42. No longer active
extinct
narcissism
consume
fagged
43. Person who loves wealth and spends little
miser
cursory
shun
alcove
44. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
philistine
parsimonious
offhand
topple
45. Needing effort burdensome
onerous
nascent
fission
flop
46. Suffer the loss of something
jibe
skiff
subsume
forfeit
47. Be admitted enter a university as a student
incite
rejuvenation
officious
matriculation
48. Become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
rave
impromptu
scorch
cryptic
49. Narrow-mindedness isolated
salubrious
meticulous
probity
insularity
50. Causing no harm
imbroglio
mendacious
innocuous
mien