SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Pcat Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Causing no harm
stolid
innocuous
stride
bequest
2. Threats to compel somebody
impute
whimsical
facetious
duress
3. Drink deeply
recuperate
requite
quaff
extinguish
4. Speech lecture
hoi
discourse
ambivalent
spurious
5. Intended to instruct
garrulous
poncho
didactic
peregrination
6. Be enough
perfidy
detraction
suffice
chagrin
7. A sheet of floating ice
implacable
luminary
ensign
floe
8. Present but not yet active developed or visible
vigorous
irrevocable
snub
latent
9. Nearness in time or place affinity of nature
rivet
connote
propinquity
articulate
10. Fall back again
imperious
relapse
gainsay
sawdust
11. Get back by payment compensate
frugal
preponderance
redeem
inundate
12. Look on with contempt
floe
aloof
incense
disdain
13. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
nascent
foster
gourmand
pitfall
14. Compel
abacus
undulate
constrain
agglutinate
15. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
reconcile
stentorian
tenacity
provident
16. Out of place not in harmony or agreement
prone
incongruous
scurvy
infuriate
17. Easily injured broken or destroyed
ignominious
fragile
quirk
ignoble
18. Tiring because too long
rift
effete
prolix
fulsome
19. Person who hates mankind
beguile
elicit
stride
misanthrope
20. To destroy exterminate cut out exscind
extirpate
euthanasia
stifled
enthral
21. Dismal - mourful
rancorous
doleful
rumple
snare
22. Causing a feeling of disgust
personable
petulant
repulsive
telltale
23. Alarm excited state of mind
trepidation
frenetic
parley
mettle
24. Over-high opinion of too much pride
conceit
foster
hollow
striated
25. That cannot be changed
sever
belligerent
recompense
immutable
26. Renounce disallow repudiate
forswear
luculent
turmoil
fecund
27. Hinder get in the way of
impede
abide
coeval
submerge
28. Stir up excite
coda
pugnacious
emote
edify
29. Strong energetic
vigorous
fidget
forbearance
iconoclast
30. Opposing progress
demagogue
reactionary
recitals
fustian
31. Easily gulled
gullible
palate
spear
malleable
32. Stinking
hoax
stolid
deprecate
fetid
33. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
spurn
cantankerous
sponge
conundrum
34. Containing warning
disheveled
admonitory
sundry
complaisant
35. Very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
florid
cravat
spurious
falter
36. Something urging a person to action
grave
goad
endearing
efface
37. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
coerce
epithet
terse
censure
38. A model example or pattern
chauvinist
paradigm
colander
grumble
39. Sharpness stinging quality
pungency
cornucopia
dwarf
corporeal
40. Pure faultless
temerity
immaculate
liberality
provident
41. Lukewarm
tepid
obviate
pith
stint
42. To speak harmful untruths about someone
agog
malign
rancorous
probity
43. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
effete
reticent
dexterity
savant
44. Secret with a hidden meaning
pliant
extrovert
debacle
cryptic
45. Relying on experiment
predilection
empirical
restive
vitriolic
46. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
mien
crease
egress
forestall
47. Practicing self-denial austere stark
morbid
ascetic
talon
roll
48. A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
trepidation
epiphany
rumple
inclined
49. To hesitate as if in fear or doubt
boggle
cordon
aberration
urbane
50. Calmness of temperament
eddy
trencherman
efface
equanimity