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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
,
english
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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. Undress
plea
vagary
putrefaction
disrobe
2. Physical of or for the body
discredit
boggle
baleful
corporeal
3. Harmful injurious
pellucid
steeply
pernicious
feral
4. Sweetly flowing
precursors
mellifluous
flout
edify
5. Idleness
reverent
renowned
vacuity
inclined
6. To adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
bedizen
cling
recalcitrant
plead
7. Without preparation or forethought
stymie
rumple
offhand
dolt
8. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
spurious
ale
heed
cantankerous
9. Eagerly desirous
covetous
propitious
credulity
breach
10. Chains for the hands or feet
gist
stigmatize
gallant
manacle
11. Essentially different
misanthrope
disparate
mulct
reticence
12. Containing warning
ineffable
terse
epitome
admonitory
13. Deliver provide represent
shrill
render
flout
disdain
14. To resist separation
ponderous
cling
rejuvenation
ardor
15. Get to the root of
plumb
obtain
perch
muffler
16. Make calmer or quieter
luculent
exploit
obloquy
mollify
17. Accumulate
accrue
overweening
fluke
slate
18. Bad-tempered irritable
anguish
adamant
splenetic
effluvia
19. Make a lower bid then somebody else
underbid
imperious
chary
candid
20. A possession
commodious
immaculate
cavalcade
suffocate
21. Person who eats a lot
trencherman
chastened
stymie
deprave
22. Complicated coiled twisted
forfeit
mellifluous
convoluted
impute
23. Carved image on the prow of a ship
supercilious
propagation
figurehead
tawdry
24. Stone used for sharpening tools
snare
hone
cumbersome
virago
25. A number of performance of music
concur
discomfit
recitals
deprecate
26. Flag/badge
chicanery
doleful
odium
ensign
27. Suggestion in addition to
immutable
connotation
incise
precepts
28. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
supercilious
idiosyncrasy
indolence
irrevocable
29. Steady regular
wean
equable
lament
drowsiness
30. Person appealing not to reasons
probity
facetious
demagogue
froward
31. Anger
ire
compunction
animosity
apt
32. Pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
bask
dainty
guile
reticent
33. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
scabbard
foil
perfunctory
lavish
34. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
clot
pariah
sheath
opprobrious
35. Obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
perjury
scribble
vacuity
balk
36. Treat as a famous person
attenuate
vilify
lionize
belligerent
37. An outcast a rejected and despised person
turquoise
relapse
fervor
pariah
38. Beat hard
ferment
belabor
covetous
extrovert
39. Bitter and violent attack in words
extempore
repast
odor
diatribe
40. Obstruct/frustrate
snare
puerile
connoisseur
thwart
41. Move along with long strides
lope
rotund
unearth
clot
42. Presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
overweening
obviate
erratic
steeply
43. Making dear or liked
profuse
endearing
florid
gorge
44. Propriety properness
tautology
propitious
adorn
decorum
45. Have a different opinion refuse to assent
dissent
parsimonious
cordon
sere
46. Go or come up
ascend
indulgent
stipulate
concoct
47. Worked out with much care in great detail
elaborate
trudge
palate
droll
48. Hell
collusion
inferno
negligent
exorbitant
49. Expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
enzyme
censure
specious
palliate
50. Stinking
fetid
belabor
prosaic
credulous