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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. Being fully aware of
squat
punitive
cognizant
precursors
2. Call calling of names
dismal
roll
pervade
exuberance
3. Move force from the place occupied
squalid
pluck
dislodge
recitals
4. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
rave
opaqueness
neophyte
irascible
5. Extreme astounding
sublime
salutary
ale
expedient
6. Person who lives alone and avoids people
recluse
veer
contumacious
stipulate
7. Complex
shard
aleck
involute
coruscate
8. Taken away power (to think feel act)
petrified
colloquial
apprehensive
gnaw
9. Plundering
elicit
fawn
requite
depredation
10. Border on
constrict
harbinger
trencherman
abut
11. Various miscellaneous separate
sundry
inured
ossify
nostrum
12. Stare at
grouse
loll
extrovert
fixate
13. Boldness impudence arrogance
pellucid
effrontery
mendacity
dormant
14. Trouble disturbance
pusillanimous
turmoil
drowsiness
bellicose
15. Surprise and fear dismay
consternation
chastened
petrous
restive
16. Alarm excited state of mind
trepidation
endeavor
imminent
equable
17. That can be freed
recreancy
smolder
extricable
squander
18. Waste away bite steadily
shunned
malapropism
gnaw
perch
19. Heavy bulky dull
auspicious
introspection
ponderous
nexus
20. Wandering
palatial
unscathed
peripatetic
middling
21. Process of burning
fetter
forgery
combustion
agile
22. Trivial poorly constructed verse
retinue
abraded
infuse
doggerel
23. Wrinkle
pugnacious
recast
demur
pucker
24. Blacken belittle sully defame
salutary
denigrate
defiance
exoneration
25. Display to obtain admiration or envy
ostentation
abysmal
parley
deter
26. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
roll
rubicund
detumescence
fragrant
27. Person who loves wealth and spends little
miser
dissent
constrain
sequence
28. Enthusiasm
ardor
tamp
disdain
propinquity
29. Childish
cajole
fulmination
malign
puerile
30. Formal praise eulogy
inclined
imprecation
salvage
panegyric
31. Interfere with
alacrity
Palpable
negligent
tamper
32. Having a toothed edge
serration
soggy
buoyant
timorous
33. Anger
profane
substantiation
ire
evince
34. Cause or have difficulty in breathing
proscribe
intransigence
suffocate
macabre
35. Without previous thought or preparation
extempore
stint
gust
divulge
36. Extremely pleasing to taste
ambrosial
excoriation
barren
propagation
37. Discourage hinder
disproof
deter
hoax
redoubtable
38. Elation state of pleasant excitement
chicanery
consume
euphoria
rivet
39. Star light-giving body
ostentation
luminary
condense
noisome
40. Omen marvelous threatening
striated
endearing
endemic
portent
41. To cut out cut away
eclat
riddle
exscind
render
42. Incapable of failure or error
misogynist
discrete
foolproof
vehemence
43. Written order
writ
ire
hoax
retrograde
44. One who considers himself smarter than others
mince
pious
recreancy
aleck
45. A raid a sudden attack
impute
egress
incursion
rebuff
46. Too fussy about food clothing etc.
expiation
fret
finical
negligent
47. Extreme poverty
stanch
penury
swerve
discern
48. Pretend
propinquity
permeate
feint
obsequious
49. State or put forward as a necessary condition
indigenous
coerce
inchoate
stipulate
50. Reserved; indifferent
turquoise
aloof
burgeon
assail