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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. Straying away from what is normal
quack
elicit
recidivism
aberration
2. To shackle put in chains
fetter
admonitory
pedestrian
finicky
3. Make a humble petition to
trudge
consummate
endorse
supplicate
4. Of the same period coexisting
falter
frantic
coeval
rebus
5. Prolonged
protracted
lassitude
plod
preternatural
6. To be divided or subdivided to branch out
droll
ramify
consume
reconcile
7. Call calling of names
roll
insipid
reverent
duress
8. Without use result conceited
ale
homiletics
vain
purvey
9. Forgive
dissolution
incredulous
quail
condone
10. Convincing firm belief
surcharge
yeoman
conviction
fragrant
11. Moult lose hair feathers before new growing
molt
aspersion
malapropism
sanity
12. Easy and painless death
euthanasia
stickler
reactionary
renowned
13. To roam wander freely
enervate
fulmination
expatiate
personable
14. Clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
illicit
aversion
astute
ambiguous
15. To portray depict sketch out
insinuate
blatant
flak
delineate
16. To equivocate to stray from the truth
glimmer
prevaricate
sycophant
accolade
17. Collapse bursting inward
prone
detraction
implosion
corporeal
18. To make an effort - to try very hard
ford
pusillanimous
tenuous
endeavor
19. To tolerate endure
sullied
brook
profligate
hew
20. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
interdict
drone
gouge
quiescence
21. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
flamboyant
procrastination
bandy
sagacious
22. Instruct; correct morally
edify
waffle
spurn
daunt
23. Small sin small weakness in one's character
vanquish
temperance
peccadillo
didactic
24. Nurture care for
foster
curriculum
engulf
floe
25. Physical beauty
propinquity
pine
frugal
pulchritude
26. Being bright polished
engrossing
lustrous
plaintive
abhor
27. Fluent
synopsis
shrewd
extricable
voluble
28. Not soled with hole
hollow
quiescence
ascetic
palate
29. Reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
conciliatory
negligent
finicky
disproof
30. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
benevolence
tractable
raconteur
fawn
31. Lying on the back slow to act passive
supine
strive
abdication
squalid
32. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
lavish
burgeon
contumacious
fracas
33. Substance that shrinks
sundry
irate
astringent
purvey
34. Disobedient
stygian
pine
recalcitrant
arboreal
35. Smell favor reputation
odor
fawn
empirical
presumption
36. Hatred being an enemy
ebullient
ingest
enmity
repine
37. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
nugatory
punitive
imbroglio
impassive
38. Poor/stingy
penurious
incense
meticulous
disheveled
39. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
aversion
quixotic
cumbersome
blatant
40. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
grave
pinch
attenuate
impetuous
41. Treacherous faithless
palliate
misanthrope
indolence
perfidious
42. Interfere with
rescind
tamper
berate
tautology
43. Oppose to alcohol
finesse
renowned
teetotal
slate
44. Made of brass
rumple
indelible
brazen
clinch
45. Hairy shaggy
expiation
voluptuous
disingenuous
hirsute
46. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
dynamo
extirpate
calipers
nascent
47. Lost brightness
decree
turgid
tarnished
ensign
48. Walk with long steps
defalcate
negligent
stride
goad
49. Shy easily frightened
timid
impervious
putrefaction
doggerel
50. Chains for the hands or feet
manacle
husk
urbane
clientele