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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. Plundering
hollow
cant
malign
depredation
2. Crouch shrink back
impassive
blatant
cower
fervid
3. Suspended action
abeyance
cling
succumb
nostrum
4. Present everywhere
ambrosial
sagacious
tangential
ubiquitous
5. Remedial wholesome causing improvement
phlegmatic
rapacious
salutary
vagary
6. Formidable causing fear
embezzle
quaff
quixotic
redoubtable
7. Disintegration looseness in morals
decorum
hapless
wan
dissolution
8. Surprise and fear dismay
calisthenics
loquacious
incense
consternation
9. Sentence within another one something separated
parenthesis
benevolence
grievous
sublime
10. Call calling of names
partisan
roll
introvert
attune
11. Untidy
disheveled
denigrate
taut
sophistry
12. Accumulate
variegate
plea
indigence
accrue
13. Directing the mind in a certain direction
striated
pristine
inclined
disingenuous
14. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
emote
disheveled
ensconce
prudish
15. The point general sense
cogent
trudge
gist
lavish
16. Serious requiring consideration
boorish
grave
levee
portent
17. Additional strengthening evidence
corroboration
apprise
stifled
disrobe
18. Draw move back wince
flinch
gouge
salubrious
insensible
19. That cannot be rubbed out
imperious
fustian
grumble
indelible
20. Low vulgar base tawdry
edify
raffish
nonplused
tortuous
21. Taking too little care
poignant
soporific
negligent
finesse
22. Easily shocked excessively modest
moderation
weigh
prudish
taciturn
23. Spread into every part of
intrepid
libertine
grouse
permeate
24. Frame with balls for calculating
effluvia
noxious
abacus
impugned
25. Written order
inculcate
writ
rubicund
crass
26. Person who stirs up war
figurehead
purvey
iconoclast
warmonger
27. Keen - quick - accurate insight or judgment
conceit
emaciate
incredulous
acumen
28. Extremely loud and powerful
stentorian
inimical
upbraid
vehemence
29. Complain or grumble (verb)
bask
grouse
pedantic
undermine
30. Strong convincing
jabber
cogent
divergence
fervor
31. Full of odd and fanciful ideas
perjury
placate
summarily
whimsical
32. Quick hurried
consequential
sophomoric
finesse
cursory
33. Tool for cutting grooves in wood
patron
felon
pied
gouge
34. Hatred being an enemy
subsume
tonic
sermon
enmity
35. Covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
finical
dynamo
pitfall
grouse
36. Commanding haughty arrogant
benevolence
steeply
imperious
belligerent
37. Make tight or smaller
constrict
matriculation
malevolence
gregarious
38. Idleness
temerity
vacuity
unscathed
eloquence
39. A trick
disdain
impetuous
wile
nadir
40. Great flood heavy rush of water
deluge
disseminate
castigation
plead
41. Threats to compel somebody
temperate
duress
fustian
churl
42. Taking off getting rid of giving up
suffice
orison
divestiture
incise
43. Representing the whole Christian world
yarn
pertain
ecumenical
fluke
44. To go proceed
breach
wend
sanction
fledged
45. Sealed by fusion
proclivity
hermetic
abrogate
impediment
46. Unspoken - silent
didactic
taciturn
predominate
provisional
47. Leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
centurion
empirical
incite
platitude
48. Meticulous
wean
punctilious
secular
superfluous
49. Draw together unite firmly
legacy
knit
secular
renovate
50. Discuss thoroughly sort of touting
petrous
coda
canvass
insensible