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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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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. A long passionate speech
strut
harangue
solvent
dissent
2. End the existence of/wipe or put out
attenuate
extinguish
embezzle
idolatry
3. Essentially different
truculence
grievous
disparate
suffocate
4. In a dying state; near death
froward
expurgate
perjury
moribund
5. Still in existence
castigation
goad
extant
entice
6. Physical of or for the body
plead
unearth
embezzle
corporeal
7. Bold
audacious
recondite
resort
grievous
8. Nickname
volatile
sobriquet
florid
flaunting
9. Trouble disturbance
mellifluous
defiance
turmoil
colloquial
10. Willful FALSE statement unlawful act
lucubrate
shard
expiation
perjury
11. Prevent by taking action in advance preempt
forestall
malign
plea
rave
12. Finical
imperturbable
canvass
diaphanous
finicky
13. Defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
ossify
lavish
acarpous
foible
14. To entangle the state of affairs
hospitable
argot
labyrinthine
disparate
15. Put into difficulties
prevalent
impiety
austere
entangle
16. Uncertain risky dangerous
precarious
dupe
ail
finesse
17. Something urging a person to action
fission
goad
strive
gist
18. Doubtful uncertain
involute
ambiguous
boggle
skit
19. Arrogant conceited
vigorous
coalescing
haughty
overhaul
20. Try to win
vigilance
woo
earthenware
tangential
21. Not having interest
insinuate
nonchalant
profuse
harbinger
22. Worked out with much care in great detail
scalding
pedestrian
elaborate
jagged
23. Severe suffering
entangle
anguish
sobriety
deviance
24. Blessing
enmity
benison
vain
affable
25. A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
detumescence
pinch
philistine
admonitory
26. Mournful excessively sad
lugubrious
synopsis
fagged
felon
27. Covered with hair
immutable
pucker
pileous
jocular
28. Get to the root of
demagogue
churlish
prevaricate
plumb
29. Cruel
maverick
sadastic
sting
impudent
30. Pure faultless
neophyte
cumbersome
immaculate
gloat
31. To fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
malinger
bewilder
ferocity
hauteur
32. Liking to give hospitality
hospitable
engender
corporeal
impervious
33. Stubborn unmanageable untractable
foppish
sedulous
peremptory
refractory
34. Leather case for a pistol
sobriquet
pitfall
holster
indigence
35. Put something warm (to lessen the pain)
rant
imprecation
sawdust
foment
36. A complex ornate design
trite
eulogy
shunned
arabesque
37. With attack violently
involute
assail
preclude
connote
38. Briefly without delay
abhor
gust
summarily
personable
39. Hide keep secret
vitriolic
consummate
conceal
cordial
40. Person guilty of murder
extempore
poignant
recitals
felon
41. A model example or pattern
paradigm
prolix
valorous
profligate
42. To make hard rocklike
deprave
quail
petrify
unscathed
43. Mark of shame or disgrace
stigma
pileous
writ
dainty
44. Get something inquire too curiously
pry
prolix
viscous
unfeigned
45. Unoriginal obtained from another source
salubrious
derivative
ferocity
fringe
46. Long thin move very fast
balk
rife
streak
graze
47. Having a desire to revenge
vindictive
undermine
woo
ascribe
48. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
stigma
exhaustive
sheath
turmoil
49. Shy easily frightened
timid
massacre
reprobate
onus
50. Draw out
tangential
inclined
inscrutable
elicit