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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. Opening broken place breaking
fixate
breach
argot
alacrity
2. Showing respect
alleviate
dissolution
deferential
perspicacity
3. Course of study
curriculum
lien
sketchy
correlate
4. Rub or wipe out - obliterate
terse
introvert
sluggard
efface
5. In a state of inactivity but awaiting development
dormant
suppliant
implacable
blandness
6. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
intransigent
pious
malevolence
saturnine
7. Pedant authority on a subject
quixotic
pundit
redoubtable
precarious
8. Transparent easy to understand
wan
odor
stride
pellucid
9. Take in by swallowing
fagged
glib
misogynist
ingest
10. Lasting
colloquial
abdication
enduring
fret
11. Directing the mind in a certain direction
dangle
odium
inclined
retrograde
12. Insubordinate rebellious
clinch
impromptu
contumacious
implacable
13. Hasty rush cheeky saucy
pulchritude
brash
peremptory
insularity
14. Shining brilliant
panegyric
veracity
refulgent
gist
15. A generator something that produces electric current
dynamo
plethora
fluke
nebulous
16. Certain inevitable
irascible
exploit
ineluctable
caustic
17. Since because
regale
inasmuch
dormant
strut
18. A long passionate speech
ascend
stigmatize
harangue
veneer
19. Flat metal on a wall as a memorial
glut
gnaw
malign
plaque
20. Large piece of cloth
inundate
poncho
telltale
foment
21. Make or become stiff and solid
inculcate
finicky
covetous
congeal
22. Passage that completes a piece of music
recitals
auspicious
coda
loll
23. Refuse to accept/cause dislike
pugnacious
quiescence
repel
imminent
24. Regard with deep respect
subsume
incessant
restive
veneration
25. To stop the flow of a fluid
stanch
imminent
tautology
abscond
26. Call up bring out
forbearance
extant
evoke
noxious
27. Lost brightness
upbraid
hospitable
tarnished
foppish
28. Low vulgar base tawdry
vigilance
forge
diffidence
raffish
29. Cowardly craven
inquest
benefactor
pusillanimous
pileous
30. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
muffler
ascribe
striated
travesty
31. Inclined to fighting
onerous
streak
bellicose
palate
32. To resist separation
cling
appease
trite
stray
33. A quack remedy an untested cure
prodigious
exploit
nostrum
personable
34. Refuse to approve of
abscond
discountenance
repast
lachrymose
35. One who turns towards himself
sublime
malleable
introvert
gourmand
36. Bitter protest
subdue
enthral
personable
fulmination
37. Abundant/lavish
raffish
consume
profuse
truculence
38. Increase in density strength make laconic
condense
fission
incumbents
petrify
39. Intimidate make fearful
embezzle
disallow
daunt
approbation
40. Person dishonestly claiming to something
quack
edify
exhaustive
smolder
41. Watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
chicanery
hypocrisy
strive
vigilance
42. Sharp piercing
deferential
rebus
credulous
shrill
43. Immoral person
valiant
acarpous
solvent
libertine
44. Difficult to comprehend obscure
facile
hypocrisy
irrevocable
abstruse
45. Something sharp
lampoon
sting
eddy
libel
46. Pure
plaintive
exuberance
knit
chaste
47. Suddenly changeable
tangential
ferocity
personable
abstruse
48. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
prudence
conceit
gust
lugubrious
49. Appropriate to the situation apt
edible
apropos
incredulous
engender
50. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious
inasmuch
extralegal
fawn
calipers