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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. Quick hurried
insensible
derivative
arrant
cursory
2. Uncertain risky dangerous
combustion
precarious
buoyant
brittle
3. Wasteful reckless with money
salutary
prodigal
machination
philanthropist
4. Based on error
fallacious
constrict
heretic
scent
5. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
buoyant
welter
levee
condense
6. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
sporadic
sheath
apprise
dud
7. Gruesome suggesting death
macabre
constrain
mince
prodigal
8. Unconcerned carefree
insouciant
predilection
ramify
vacillation
9. Grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
snare
apprehensive
terse
forbearance
10. Talkative garrulous
gouge
irate
shun
loquacious
11. Passage that completes a piece of music
derision
coda
mettlesome
judicious
12. Examining one's own thoughts and feelings
disseminate
petrify
introspection
convoke
13. Anger
machination
grumble
egress
ire
14. Slow way of speaking
ostentation
impiety
drawl
heed
15. Person who lives alone and avoids people
urbane
recluse
coax
dexterity
16. Having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
indolence
requite
shun
equivocal
17. Giving great attention to details
luminary
meticulous
impermeable
waft
18. Refuse to allow or accept as a correct
disallow
recondite
preen
dogmatic
19. Get to the end of
diatribe
taunt
covert
consume
20. Flood cover by overflowing
flamboyant
propagation
inundate
savant
21. Very great number
lien
myriad
paean
fringe
22. Customers
arrant
clientele
malign
cantankerous
23. Weaken deprive of strength attenuate
enervate
extirpate
dwarf
dupe
24. Made up of different kinds
aberration
misanthrope
enduring
heterogeneous
25. Deeply moving keen
poignant
scabbard
garrulous
mesmerize
26. Sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
disingenuous
philanthropist
inquest
extant
27. To hate to detest
veer
trifling
manacle
abhor
28. Make or become pure cultural
impecunious
refine
discountenance
equable
29. Roughness of manner or of surface
simper
pulchritude
asperity
discomfit
30. Severely moral and strict simple and plain
trepidation
austere
importune
disproof
31. Becoming young in nature or appearance
disallow
malapropism
lope
rejuvenation
32. Bunch of threads
ineluctable
impair
quibble
tassel
33. Person who hates mankind
tonic
doleful
misanthrope
dearth
34. Treat with care and tenderness
venal
embezzle
coddle
irascible
35. Not new
impetuous
trite
inasmuch
cabal
36. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
mien
conciliatory
frantic
unfeigned
37. Large pile of wood for burning
pyre
turpitude
plaque
forbear
38. Come to grips/settle conclusively
obstreperous
hew
clinch
irksome
39. Too strong to be defeated
lugubrious
disconcert
alacrity
invincible
40. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
restive
repast
volubility
unscathed
41. Shameless immorality
invective
coy
refine
profligacy
42. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
infuse
frugal
perjury
tamp
43. Vexation
sting
chagrin
hapless
umbrage
44. Stir up rouse
chary
morbid
vituperate
incite
45. Welcomed with shouts and approval
suppliant
blatant
coalescing
acclaimed
46. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
onus
pluck
assail
reciprocity
47. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
constrict
efface
brash
reproach
48. Abstruse intended only for a small circle of
disparate
esoteric
concur
sinuous
49. Socially awkward tactless behavior
barren
quotidian
gaucherie
contumacious
50. Of the present time only
grovel
expatiate
waft
provisional