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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. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
sanctimony
flamboyant
indefatigability
extinct
2. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
stolid
strut
ambrosial
molt
3. Briefly without delay
appease
serration
summarily
ostensible
4. Forgive
beatify
depredation
stymie
condone
5. Treat as a famous person
adorn
flinch
astute
lionize
6. Regard with deep respect
deprecate
resilience
strive
veneration
7. Stir up rouse
incite
prudish
offhand
reciprocity
8. Burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
ignominious
vilify
cumbersome
renovate
9. Silly senseless
slur
perish
sere
inane
10. Pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
mince
enervate
renovate
boisterous
11. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
conviction
censure
fervor
pervade
12. Complex
involute
deplete
shallow
heed
13. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
reverent
insouciant
meticulous
gorge
14. Childish
sever
shunned
puerile
empirical
15. Glut
lumber
detraction
plethora
loll
16. Quality of endurance or courage
appease
Palpable
efface
mettle
17. Not allowing to pass through (of materials)
obfuscate
impervious
liberality
droll
18. Convincing firm belief
quiescence
conviction
warrant
cohort
19. Strenuous effort
arduous
mendacity
cordial
rumple
20. Taste flavor something
savor
inferno
fluster
plod
21. Suppressed - kept back
stifled
divergence
affinity
oblivious
22. Write in scholarly fashion
malevolence
aleck
lucubrate
grumble
23. Bring into harmony
boorish
fluke
warmonger
attune
24. Person guilty of murder
hew
squat
libel
felon
25. Bombastic
aversion
depredation
fustian
coda
26. Containing warning
gush
admonitory
connote
ale
27. Try to deceive by equivocal language
pundit
fluster
equivocate
lithe
28. Speech lecture
salacious
finesse
discourse
demur
29. Like a slave lacking independence
husk
servile
misanthrope
slate
30. Frugal looking to the future
insularity
torpid
provident
ail
31. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
involute
luminary
blandishment
ale
32. Bending twisting
lithe
purvey
impassive
incursion
33. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
ensign
morose
engrossing
contrite
34. Make something (pain desire) less
odious
assuage
rarefy
maverick
35. Uncommunicativeness
misogynist
elegy
sting
reticence
36. Infertile worn out weak
veer
ardor
effete
inadvertent
37. Shining brilliant
taciturn
refulgent
whimsical
aver
38. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
figurehead
irascible
turgid
sobriquet
39. Negotiation
parley
brittle
shrill
recant
40. Dethronement depositing
credulous
concord
coeval
deposition
41. Quality or condition of being sober
insularity
sobriety
impede
sting
42. Idleness
renovate
hush
thwart
vacuity
43. Commanding haughty arrogant
imperious
superimpose
desiccant
machination
44. Gather facts in small quantities
droll
blithe
glean
veritable
45. Paint with dots
profuse
stipple
striated
avow
46. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
breach
meticulous
blandishment
denouement
47. Satiate feed to fulness or to excess
ingest
pristine
surfeit
latent
48. Propriety properness
extempore
aspersion
poignant
decorum
49. Write one's name on the back of
endorse
sluggard
asterisk
alleviate
50. Make angry
chagrin
turquoise
ire
incense