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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. Put into difficulties
edify
quixotic
entangle
punitive
2. Menacing threatening
lugubrious
pine
minatory
palate
3. Wickedness shamefulness
sanity
barren
turpitude
conundrum
4. Leather case for a pistol
tonic
prevaricate
holster
paean
5. To clear from a charge of guilt
exculpate
alleviate
fidget
temerity
6. Having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
impetuous
halcyon
sententious
sobriquet
7. Take the whole attention - enslave
enthral
veneer
tenuous
barrage
8. Of the body
wag
repel
abate
somatic
9. Strong dislike
qualm
entreat
impair
aversion
10. Common
inquest
ubiquitous
prevalent
redeem
11. Person much smaller the usual size
inveigh
maverick
dwarf
abet
12. Frame with balls for calculating
jagged
dote
abacus
sluggard
13. Essentially different
plaque
disparate
credulous
asterisk
14. Refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
obtrusive
tepid
involute
restive
15. Provide supply
purvey
presumption
exoneration
cant
16. Sentimental in a silly or tearful way
recant
maudlin
latent
sagacious
17. Threatening
ominous
limp
savant
stipulate
18. Cowardly craven
ebullient
pusillanimous
perilous
reminiscent
19. Discover and bring to light
bandy
inimical
reprobate
unearth
20. Think deeply mediate
evasive
cogitate
effete
roll
21. The point general sense
gist
inculcate
expostulate
aberration
22. Hot enough to boil
slack
exploit
inept
scalding
23. Punishing
punitive
enmity
torpid
latent
24. Still in existence
machination
doggerel
equivocate
extant
25. Something urging a person to action
resuscitation
erudite
discern
goad
26. To turn away (from a habit)
render
whimsical
wean
valiant
27. Mournful melancholy sorrowful
insensible
plaintive
cryptic
profligate
28. Make or become silent
hush
sanity
prodigal
vituperate
29. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
bewilder
tyro
gust
disseminate
30. Get to the end of
abscond
poignant
feral
consume
31. Rich and deep plump and round
provident
rotund
brass
avid
32. Postpone
equilibrium
lucubrate
scribble
defer
33. Attract - lure
weigh
stygian
insipid
entice
34. Act of preaching
opprobrious
superfluous
homiletics
suffocate
35. Expressing or giving praise
quandary
disrobe
laudatory
flax
36. Argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
bask
dainty
expostulate
espouse
37. Becoming rotten
stolid
implicate
putrefaction
fatuous
38. (person) with superior tastes
pusillanimous
quail
introvert
highbrow
39. Coming back to consciousness
dangle
smolder
forswear
resuscitation
40. Worthless outside part of anything
husk
turpitude
coruscate
unencumbered
41. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
equivocal
disingenuous
prone
palate
42. Move quickly suddenly and with force
prevaricate
plunge
plea
ambiguous
43. Perfect/make perfect/complete
spear
consummate
requite
splice
44. Press lose shape subdue overwhelm
boggle
crush
hapless
moribund
45. The saving of property from loss
hone
salvage
calipers
esoteric
46. Quality of endurance or courage
hirsute
mettle
counterfeit
sermon
47. Bottomless extreme
abysmal
procrastination
shunt
disinter
48. Beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
garble
importune
equanimity
somatic
49. Sparkle
somatic
bogus
inadvertent
coruscate
50. Summary or outline
synopsis
epitome
ruddy
wan