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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. Weariness tiredness
fracas
gullible
occluded
lassitude
2. Wandering
abut
peripatetic
abide
lachrymose
3. Treat with care and tenderness
apprehensive
intransigence
introspection
coddle
4. Hairy shaggy
antithetical
transitory
hirsute
subsume
5. Confuse embarrass
spurn
hapless
discomfit
machination
6. Commanding haughty arrogant
imperious
distrait
ambivalent
cognizant
7. Step to one side
serrated
refractory
forgery
sidestep
8. Filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
virago
contrite
minatory
epiphany
9. That cannot be rubbed out
pugnacious
hirsute
indelible
precepts
10. Responsilibilty -burden
luminary
implicate
onus
indigence
11. Complicated and embarrassing situation
paucity
malapropism
imbroglio
pry
12. FALSE counterfeit
volubility
spurious
tautology
limp
13. Challenged to be doubted
impugned
undulate
equivocal
plaque
14. Strong dislike
aversion
urbane
limn
limp
15. Take back as being FALSE give up
recant
colander
desiccant
infuriate
16. Crawl humble oneself
inimitable
foppish
quell
grovel
17. Corrected punished
opprobrious
indigence
chastened
ire
18. Make or become silent
perspicacity
emote
inquest
hush
19. Stare at
noisome
ecumenical
repudiate
fixate
20. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
lavish
complaisance
belabor
endearing
21. Split crack dissension
calipers
censure
rift
cloture
22. Cause produce give rise to
laudatory
seminal
denigrate
engender
23. Can be felt touched understood
palpability
implacable
alcove
fluster
24. Taking off getting rid of giving up
divestiture
centurion
foolproof
ebullience
25. Self-controlled
lien
sober
flout
infuse
26. Write hastily
servile
cohort
macerate
scribble
27. Quality of being limited not extreme
moderation
anguish
extempore
veneer
28. Cloth worn round the neck/silencer
coerce
muffler
quandary
disrobe
29. Bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
evoke
colander
nadir
ire
30. Depth
shunt
empirical
profundity
ponderous
31. Cowardly craven
pusillanimous
impromptu
husk
squalid
32. Complicated coiled twisted
evasive
contemn
convoluted
feud
33. Dutiful to parents devoted to religion
pious
aleck
extenuate
balk
34. To hinder obstruct or block
skit
stymie
palpability
complaisance
35. Fluent speaking skillful use of language
conundrum
eloquence
sever
prone
36. Giving up control authority
maladroit
sophisticated
inscrutable
abdication
37. Crouch/settle without permission
wag
squat
salacious
indulgent
38. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
crease
pellucid
salutary
jejune
39. Person who hates mankind
implicate
misanthrope
inculcate
indigence
40. Shyness
irksome
efface
boisterous
diffidence
41. Request
plea
trite
volatile
felon
42. Causing no harm
ascetic
innocuous
ascertain
distrait
43. Join (two ends)
splice
extricable
undulate
cogitate
44. Noisy loud
vagary
pertain
obstreperous
pyre
45. Ask earnestly
droll
entreat
limp
undulate
46. Overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
sanction
warmonger
savant
ebullient
47. Haughtiness
aloof
hauteur
reverent
trenchant
48. Avoid
equanimity
eschew
excoriation
ford
49. Bulge the protuberance of a cask
sullied
bilge
submerge
astute
50. Showing self-control
hoi
ruddy
temperate
rant