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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. Having a toothed edge
serration
pugnacious
fulsome
insipid
2. Happening from time to time
inveterate
sporadic
underbid
voluble
3. Belief contrary to what is generally accepted
fragrant
impair
heresy
effete
4. Recreant - protestant -skeptic
heretic
verve
convoke
veritable
5. Unspoken - silent
expatiate
liberality
taciturn
turbid
6. Greenish-blue precious stone
parley
ail
turquoise
gourmand
7. Active quick-moving
virago
officious
candid
agile
8. Sealed by fusion
derision
hermetic
strut
combustion
9. Heavy with water
sere
turmoil
impending
soggy
10. Slander say evil things
sagacious
dilate
lurk
vilify
11. Harmful
halcyon
gauche
warrant
noxious
12. Lost brightness
trencherman
fecund
tarnished
gouge
13. Talk excitedly utter rapidly
clientele
nonchalant
jabber
redoubtable
14. Obstruct/frustrate
unearth
livid
thwart
appease
15. Enormous wonderful
ebullience
veritable
endeavor
prodigious
16. Responsilibilty -burden
supercilious
nonplused
lurk
onus
17. Lose courage turn frightened
conspicuous
quail
philistine
transient
18. Star light-giving body
heretic
immaculate
luminary
felon
19. Ready to believe things
credulous
entangle
mundane
muffler
20. Like a rock hard stony
petrous
crease
florid
argot
21. Temporary fleeting
torque
flimsy
foment
transient
22. Made up of different kinds
heterogeneous
chastened
hone
propagation
23. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
boggle
boorish
meretricious
plaintive
24. Little depth not earnest
quaff
antidote
adamant
shallow
25. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
wanton
ambiguous
subpoena
gourmand
26. Scold reproach
wag
countenance
pusillanimous
upbraid
27. Sad gloomy miserable
cursory
recitals
indelible
dismal
28. Renounce disallow repudiate
terse
forswear
savant
succor
29. Mean contemptible
incredulous
apprise
picaresque
scurvy
30. Person guilty of murder
felon
pillage
forbearance
implacable
31. Make beautiful
embellish
descry
disparate
provisional
32. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
tortuous
reciprocity
finical
salubrious
33. Fertile
fecund
burnish
cower
forfeit
34. Display to obtain admiration or envy
ostentation
impecunious
plummet
nebulous
35. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
argot
palate
desuetude
lurk
36. Soft light delicate material
gossamer
collusion
crass
pariah
37. Form of a frog when it leaves the egg
equilibrium
tadpole
fecund
refine
38. Lively high-spirited
endearing
vivacious
agglutinate
discreet
39. Worry irritation wear away
provident
flax
fret
impiety
40. To join together
conjoin
countenance
cognizant
sere
41. Check hinder
mollify
bogus
retard
irate
42. Pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
invective
lackluster
imperious
pluck
43. Polite manner comforting uninteresting
blandness
exhaustive
dilate
equilibrium
44. Menacing threatening
minatory
reverent
covert
affinity
45. Weaken gradually at the base make something under
ineffable
uncouth
undermine
equilibrium
46. In the highest degree
dissolution
benign
arrant
quixotic
47. Shut out from society refuse to meet talk
ostracism
somersault
susceptibility
nonplused
48. Scarcity a lacking of
grievous
intransigent
conundrum
paucity
49. Showing self-control
exorbitant
subpoena
temperate
corporeal
50. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
poignant
lionize
beatify
august