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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. Eager/excited
dupe
pivotal
alacrity
agog
2. Strenuous effort
arduous
incongruous
overweening
daunt
3. Get somebody to do something by kindness
coax
crush
castigate
intransigent
4. Savage cruelty
paean
feud
ferocity
indigence
5. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
levity
lassitude
florid
enunciate
6. Supply to much fill to excess
desuetude
demur
intransigent
glut
7. Confuse embarrass
immutable
discomfit
obsequious
punitive
8. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
epiphany
discourse
recidivism
profligate
9. Dullness/not allowing light to pass through
appease
opaqueness
garrulous
recuperate
10. Having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
placate
sagacious
counterfeit
rancorous
11. Crouch shrink back
infuse
cower
tamp
rivet
12. A very small amount - portion - or particle
mite
stanch
enervate
quibble
13. A person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
equivocate
covert
cling
14. A lament a melancholy composition
elegy
shard
endeavor
frantic
15. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
pest
excoriation
phlegmatic
noisome
16. Jargon slang
debacle
argot
expedient
reiterate
17. Too economical miserly
cogitate
extricable
luminary
parsimonious
18. Crawl humble oneself
stipple
brash
grovel
expedient
19. Legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
moderation
lien
purvey
shard
20. That can be freed
gauche
molt
extricable
crass
21. Since because
antidote
salacious
inasmuch
partisan
22. Corrected punished
travesty
valiant
maudlin
chastened
23. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
equilibrium
grievous
finical
plaque
24. To make unnecessary get rid of
obviate
shard
quail
truculence
25. Shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
concur
flimsy
ignominious
perpetrate
26. Slow way of speaking
puerile
forgery
drawl
equipoise
27. Shy easily frightened
effrontery
timid
chaste
dupe
28. Distracted
colander
distrait
fustian
atonement
29. Based on error
pyre
fallacious
euphoria
disheveled
30. Trick mislead
cadge
stride
coax
hoodwink
31. Finical
defer
plunge
cryptic
finicky
32. Eagerly desirous
abstruse
colloquial
covetous
servile
33. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
placate
stifled
clinch
tawdry
34. Free giving generosity
liberality
immaculate
dexterity
pivotal
35. That cannot be permeated
divergence
aseptic
invective
impermeable
36. Quality or condition of being sober
mendacity
misanthrope
sobriety
simper
37. To bring about
ineptitude
pedestrian
Conduce
dissemble
38. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
fawn
parenthesis
cogent
39. Likely to come or happen soon
imminent
candid
stanch
prudence
40. Become quiet or less active
felicitous
hoax
lull
flax
41. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
ail
machination
sawdust
perjury
42. Traveling about wandering
clinch
dud
peregrination
distraught
43. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
canvass
sheath
jibe
forage
44. Additional strengthening evidence
precarious
writ
corroboration
cordial
45. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
fluke
obtrusive
raffish
pristine
46. Incapable of failure or error
inept
foolproof
abet
disencumber
47. Additional load/charge
desiccant
extol
surcharge
eclat
48. Disguised
covert
interdict
sodden
provisional
49. Unlucky
umbrage
hapless
provoke
heed
50. Learned scholarly
erudite
expedient
soot
trudge