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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. Intended to instruct
grievous
inane
credulity
didactic
2. To hate to detest
prolix
connoisseur
abhor
barrage
3. Worked out with much care in great detail
constrict
idolatry
haughty
elaborate
4. Practicing self-denial austere stark
imperious
salacious
turquoise
ascetic
5. Infertile worn out weak
effete
cumbersome
craven
irresolute
6. Sensitiveness
consummate
susceptibility
incessant
taunt
7. To attribute to a cause or source ascribe
irate
arboreal
castigate
impute
8. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
opaqueness
repulsive
sadastic
9. Disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
travesty
audacious
supercilious
requite
10. Promise or swear to give up
abjure
compunction
cantankerous
portent
11. Commanding haughty arrogant
paucity
imperious
garrulous
alloy
12. Have more power than others
predominate
provisional
disingenuous
facile
13. Feeling doubt
pitfall
unencumbered
succor
dubious
14. Of the present time only
malapropism
tadpole
labyrinthine
provisional
15. A very small amount - portion - or particle
mite
proliferate
jejune
luculent
16. Majestic venerable
summarily
august
transitory
pitfall
17. Parody/imitation
travesty
implicit
chastisement
grouse
18. One who loves mankind
stigma
imperative
figurehead
philanthropist
19. Put under water liquid sink out of sight
blandishment
submerge
engulf
volatile
20. A person or thing that precedes - as in a process or job.
agile
petulant
precursors
fringe
21. Having little or no money
covetous
impecunious
supine
facetious
22. Slander aspersion
glean
temperate
indistinct
calumny
23. Way out exit
egress
engulf
sinuous
deter
24. Liking to give hospitality
hospitable
impassive
fission
belabor
25. Surgically clean
berate
aseptic
entreat
turgid
26. Irritable easily angered
contiguous
irascible
efficacy
succor
27. Trifling/worthless
facile
nugatory
testiness
laudatory
28. Lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
unscathed
morbid
feckless
middling
29. Sealed by fusion
volatile
hermetic
deplete
embezzle
30. Unskillful said or done at the wrong time
judicious
hone
repast
inept
31. Place here and there
intersperse
clinch
inculcate
chauvinist
32. Warning sign
coerce
presage
officious
liberality
33. Stir up rouse
obsequious
solvent
incite
impermeable
34. Talkative garrulous
engrossing
loquacious
proclivity
embezzle
35. Use extravagant language
undermine
profligate
ecumenical
rant
36. Weak/unsteady light
voluble
glimmer
glean
recitals
37. Causing tears tearful
lachrymose
impassive
incise
pious
38. Poor/stingy
disproof
penurious
liberality
exploit
39. Giving up control authority
inveterate
abdication
indomitable
burnish
40. Oppose to alcohol
tonic
inveigh
accretion
teetotal
41. Quality of quickly recovering the original shape
cravat
resilience
preen
commuter
42. Person who stirs up war
beguile
recreancy
severance
warmonger
43. Wickedness shamefulness
accrue
haughty
coax
turpitude
44. Without preparation
corroboration
brittle
impromptu
officious
45. To attack verbally denounce deprecate
dainty
inveigh
inasmuch
portent
46. Rising or falling sharply
palpability
prune
steeply
preen
47. Mischievous trick played to deceive
hoax
deprave
rescind
peremptory
48. Rob or dispossess of something (material)
contentious
turbulence
gourmand
bereft
49. To tolerate endure
disrobe
trifling
swerve
brook
50. Grow reproduce by rapid multification
gallant
proliferate
precepts
coda