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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. Hell
immutable
erudite
inferno
garble
2. Untidy
garrulous
effete
disheveled
suffocate
3. Urgent essential
imperative
plaintive
retrospective
wan
4. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
rescind
covetous
peremptory
imprecation
5. Assistance relief in time of distress
gossamer
forage
succor
sobriety
6. Get back by payment compensate
calisthenics
eradicate
didactic
redeem
7. Majestic venerable
diatribe
tractable
august
onus
8. Shout complain with a lot of noise
clamor
quack
jejune
sting
9. Deliver provide represent
epitome
benevolence
render
plaintive
10. Real rightly named
felicitous
veritable
equilibrium
shrill
11. State of being passive/motionless
reiterate
acarpous
infuse
quiescence
12. Likely to come or happen soon
imminent
scalding
redoubtable
derision
13. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
malapropism
gainsay
propinquity
nugatory
14. Of mixed colors
curriculum
intrepid
pied
untoward
15. Widespread
entice
rave
inclined
rife
16. Auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
cadge
apostate
rubicund
propitious
17. Get to know
ascertain
holster
pusillanimous
deprecate
18. Metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
interdict
encomium
calipers
balk
19. Mischievous trick played to deceive
hoax
bask
antithetical
lavish
20. Half-solid lump formed from liquid
encapsulate
clot
benefactor
splice
21. Person who attacks popular beliefs
iconoclast
convoluted
maladroit
bigot
22. To distress create stress or torment
rapacious
introspection
irksome
harrow
23. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
chagrin
indistinct
pristine
sadastic
24. Learned scholarly
erudite
dissolution
ensign
taunt
25. A beginner
ascertain
drone
tyro
conciliatory
26. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
acumen
impugned
aversion
burnish
27. Treat as a famous person
uncouth
surcharge
lionize
spurious
28. Proof to the contrary
disproof
expatiate
steeply
consternation
29. Act of preaching
dangle
brittle
homiletics
doleful
30. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
audacious
feint
baleful
warmonger
31. Parody/imitation
travesty
agglutinate
recluse
doggerel
32. A person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
diffidence
connoisseur
sluggard
simper
33. To make an effort - to try very hard
dubious
castigation
endeavor
inscrutable
34. Hence dark gloomy
plaintive
stygian
discern
indigence
35. Be faithful to endure
philistine
dearth
peripatetic
abide
36. Sad gloomy miserable
engrave
sanctimony
dismal
palpitate
37. Approval (by authority) penalty
sordid
combustion
thwart
sanction
38. Talk vaguely and without much result
pliant
expedient
waffle
volatile
39. Serious requiring consideration
dexterity
glimmer
striated
grave
40. Yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
heterogeneous
malleable
sermon
reminiscent
41. Certain inevitable
gust
ineluctable
fervor
gossamer
42. Noisy quarrel
discomfit
plumb
fracas
quixotic
43. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
boggle
deluge
repast
discreet
44. Of the same period coexisting
equilibrium
coeval
preen
jejune
45. Socially awkward tactless behavior
heinous
taut
jibe
gaucherie
46. Appropriate to the situation apt
pertain
recast
apropos
brazen
47. Adjective
cordon
myriad
drawl
epithet
48. To make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
sublime
prodigal
reiterate
rarefy
49. Emergency an urgent situation
perspicacity
slate
exigency
abut
50. Make nervous or confused
tarnished
apprehensive
hoi
fluster