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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. Direct opposing
sanity
antithetical
erudite
vigorous
2. Complete thorough
exhaustive
overhaul
protracted
belabor
3. Bunch of threads
slur
tassel
pungency
paucity
4. Extreme poverty
penury
provident
ameliorate
panegyric
5. Inclination
poignant
ascetic
proclivity
maudlin
6. Snub
recidivism
rejuvenation
rebuff
veneration
7. Make angry vax
involute
recondite
provoke
assail
8. Urgent essential
cant
inept
latent
imperative
9. Blessing
peccadillo
benison
subdue
trifling
10. Warmth of feelings earnestness
fervor
coax
obtrusive
implosion
11. Move along with long strides
lope
egress
nibble
skit
12. Go or come up
gallant
sanction
ascend
inundate
13. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
permeate
torpid
philistine
pine
14. Intended to instruct
didactic
trepidation
chauvinist
incise
15. To assuage to satisfy allay
renovate
coax
slake
floe
16. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
jejune
transgress
sheath
vacuity
17. Suggest or imply in addition to the precise - literal meaning
connote
alloy
fledgling
shunt
18. Extreme astounding
sublime
conciliatory
clinch
splice
19. Close connection relationship
affinity
incessant
ignoble
derision
20. Cessation of use disuse
intrepid
ail
desuetude
shunt
21. Send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
indigence
shunt
inadvertent
cabal
22. Substance that shrinks
obstreperous
transitory
mollify
astringent
23. Give greatly needed support
disheveled
stickler
bolster
unearth
24. Increase in density strength make laconic
contentious
lassitude
regale
condense
25. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
simper
trifling
reminiscent
extralegal
26. To complain
goad
sketchy
insinuate
grumble
27. Crime of killing a king
timid
dolt
exigency
regicide
28. To speak harmful untruths about someone
plumb
mollify
mettlesome
malign
29. Rise fly high
convoluted
spurn
soar
brook
30. Quick changeable in character fleeting
abhor
quibble
mercurial
droll
31. Write hastily
odium
epiphany
antidote
scribble
32. Crude offensive rude
attenuate
recidivism
sawdust
boorish
33. Magnificent
precepts
recluse
quaff
sumptuous
34. Having plenty of space for what is needed
denouement
commodious
garner
nexus
35. Being bright polished
engender
cravat
audacious
lustrous
36. Irregular in behaviour or opinion
dissent
garner
erratic
paucity
37. Showing scorn or reproach
inadvertent
libertine
volubility
opprobrious
38. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
cravat
sycophant
impudent
rejuvenation
39. Projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
sawdust
obtrusive
smolder
cogitate
40. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
quail
irascible
timid
dainty
41. Red and healthy
incite
alcove
wile
rubicund
42. Notched
occluded
prodigious
jagged
abrogate
43. Rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
perjury
refine
lurk
loll
44. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
probity
equivocate
ferocity
earthenware
45. Make or become pure cultural
offhand
cogent
liberality
refine
46. Threats to compel somebody
conciliatory
duress
pulchritude
penchant
47. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
nibble
obfuscate
dawdler
plea
48. Burden things that get on the way of
encumbrance
irate
repine
rant
49. Implied though not plainly expressed
conspicuous
implicit
puissance
preternatural
50. Fallacious reasoning faulty logic
moderation
exoneration
sophistry
puissance