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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. Obscene
salacious
clinch
forage
jibe
2. Looking ill - not bright
wan
indelible
enmity
onus
3. Immoral person
guile
commodious
perspicacity
libertine
4. Mean contemptible
elaborate
reminiscent
scurvy
contemn
5. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
chagrin
mettle
quixotic
emaciate
6. Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
abut
cantankerous
lionize
turgid
7. Elegant refined in manners
encomium
beguile
urbane
maudlin
8. Gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
indulge
sanctimony
prudish
dawdler
9. Not good enough unable to have young ones without value
barren
travesty
quixotic
guile
10. Taken away power (to think feel act)
perspicacity
burnish
trickle
petrified
11. Instruct; correct morally
squalid
edify
sententious
plea
12. Formal praise panegyric
eulogy
dislodge
entice
mischievous
13. Catalyst
viscous
repast
portent
enzyme
14. Corrected punished
untoward
trenchant
chastened
dearth
15. Fearful timid afraid
malapropism
mendacity
timorous
asperity
16. Lukewarm
lumber
suffocate
tepid
testiness
17. Sweet-smelling
sponge
fragrant
germane
vex
18. Large piece of cloth
congeal
facile
savor
poncho
19. Warm and sincere
cordial
coagulation
impending
aversion
20. Urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
peremptory
euphoria
warrant
constrict
21. Wickedness shamefulness
turpitude
dubious
abacus
purvey
22. A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
venal
gourmand
imperative
effete
23. Praise approval
ford
accolade
flamboyant
sawdust
24. Poor/stingy
malleable
sanity
belligerent
penurious
25. Stare at
wend
anguish
fixate
dilate
26. Idleness
vacuity
inferno
molt
augury
27. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
auspicious
maladroit
ebullient
glut
28. Inclined to fighting
bellicose
coddle
fulsome
repudiate
29. Ridicule mockery deriding
derision
contentious
virago
permeate
30. Burst out suddenly/talk ardently
abraded
alcove
gush
denouement
31. Of mixed colors
pied
toady
rivet
suppliant
32. Too eager to obey or serve
flax
commemorate
soot
obsequious
33. Socially awkward tactless behavior
seminal
teetotal
malapropism
gaucherie
34. Unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste
garner
pitfall
suppliant
wanton
35. Having a toothed edge
harangue
maul
epistle
serration
36. Feeling sleepy half asleep
fledgling
delineate
drowsiness
abhor
37. Turmoil a bewildering jumble
rife
welter
resuscitation
sundry
38. Changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
volatile
sponge
succumb
gust
39. Lazy slow-moving person
paradigm
glean
picaresque
sluggard
40. Help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
deprave
abet
misogynist
defer
41. Suffer the loss of something
precepts
forfeit
placate
stray
42. Wish or activity in doing good
impecunious
scent
benevolence
dislodge
43. Dull and slow
allegiance
dexterity
torpid
entice
44. Annoy distress trouble
vex
ferocity
judicious
eulogy
45. Step to one side
noisome
strive
hone
sidestep
46. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
abut
jejune
whimsical
incessant
47. To chastise correct by punishing
derogatory
heinous
precursory
castigate
48. Banal everyday
coruscate
welter
quotidian
austere
49. Prevent from being known put an end to
diaphanous
suppress
efficacy
erudite
50. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
acumen
credulity
sheath
censure