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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. To protest object
arrogance
impede
remonstrate
malinger
2. To be involved
defiance
implicate
mince
trifling
3. Kind of stone inflexible
scribble
gerontocracy
stipulate
adamant
4. Make morally bad corrupt
labyrinthine
deprave
frantic
balk
5. Heavy with water
connote
enunciate
catalyst
soggy
6. Take the whole attention - enslave
effrontery
enthral
surfeit
synopsis
7. Shortage
boisterous
dearth
acarpous
steeply
8. Taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
engrossing
perilous
clientele
trickle
9. Give notice to inform
forestall
hew
apprise
barrage
10. Trick mislead
prudish
felon
hoodwink
glimmer
11. Likely to come or happen soon
imminent
fetid
sophisticated
rebuff
12. Rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement
heterogeneous
connoisseur
somersault
shunt
13. One who loves mankind
philanthropist
chary
placate
combustion
14. Order given by authority
predilection
emote
decree
ebullience
15. Greedy (esp for money)
rapacious
vituperate
defer
slur
16. Careful forethought
vex
perjury
repudiate
prudence
17. Additional load/charge
cloture
bogus
perch
surcharge
18. Continue doing something without resting
plod
fervid
apostate
impugned
19. Affirm something to be true
unearth
tractable
aver
waft
20. Split crack dissension
rift
irrevocable
volubility
aseptic
21. State or put forward as a necessary condition
discrete
sanctimony
descry
stipulate
22. Self-love
barrage
assiduous
sanity
narcissism
23. Living in societies liking the company
gregarious
placate
interim
dulcet
24. Renounce disallow repudiate
forswear
debacle
derivative
incorrigibility
25. Wasteful reckless with money
prodigal
fluster
onus
satiate
26. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
euthanasia
denouement
subpoena
endeavor
27. Everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
concur
rubicund
prosaic
console
28. Fearful timid afraid
timorous
conceal
eloquence
consternation
29. Feeling doubt
brittle
dubious
countervail
piquant
30. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
hack
approbation
crush
insurrection
31. Feeling sleepy half asleep
glimmer
debacle
drowsiness
glut
32. Not soled with hole
hollow
amalgamate
nonchalant
seminal
33. Childish
consequential
grovel
puerile
consume
34. Put something on the top
antidote
superimpose
flimsy
steeply
35. Course of study
enigma
preternatural
curriculum
exploit
36. Suppressed - kept back
cantankerous
divulge
pious
stifled
37. Bottomless extreme
dilate
abide
forbear
abysmal
38. Close connection relationship
affinity
connotation
ale
cordial
39. Beat hard
paean
curmudgeon
belabor
undermine
40. Have more power than others
venal
august
maudlin
predominate
41. Rules establishing standards of conduct
precepts
Palpable
prolix
cavalcade
42. Person appealing not to reasons
pry
demagogue
equilibrium
salvage
43. Strong convincing
proscribe
fetid
acumen
cogent
44. Hesitating undecided
irresolute
provisional
harbinger
cornucopia
45. Spread into every part of
gist
introvert
permeate
finesse
46. A beggar
premature
subsume
voluble
mendicant
47. Crime of killing a king
indulge
astute
exoneration
regicide
48. Paint with dots
strive
stipple
incite
chisel
49. Like a slave lacking independence
verdant
servile
travesty
deter
50. Formal reception/embankment
molt
flax
eradicate
levee