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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. Wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
accolade
alacrity
pugnacious
frantic
2. Vexation
indolence
dawdler
abide
chagrin
3. Following; attendants
effrontery
retinue
retard
savor
4. Feeling doubt
streak
aspersion
dubious
heed
5. Touching neighboring near
chastisement
contiguous
wean
loll
6. Giving facts to support (statement)
suffocate
waffle
substantiation
ruddy
7. Disobedient
recalcitrant
fidget
teetotal
presage
8. Person who travels regularly
discourse
stride
exigency
commuter
9. Oppose to alcohol
ostracism
tyro
precarious
teetotal
10. Easily shocked excessively modest
dirge
exuberance
prudish
valiant
11. Member of a vigilance committee
vigilant
edacious
mince
pitfall
12. To join together
conjoin
limp
bewilder
malinger
13. Commonplace trite unremarkable
morbid
hapless
ostracism
pedestrian
14. Hesitating undecided
occluded
plead
irresolute
soot
15. Disapprove of
gist
countenance
decry
peregrination
16. Showing no emotion impassive
stolid
balk
hauteur
husk
17. Flood cover by overflowing
levity
brittle
inundate
frugal
18. Crime of killing a king
extralegal
regicide
gnaw
petulant
19. Surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
garner
veneer
heresy
reprobate
20. Loud noisy rough lacking restraint
cordon
impute
boisterous
cravat
21. Go or come up
abysmal
brittle
ascend
extort
22. Letter
soporific
extrovert
epistle
ignominious
23. Gibe make fun of
jibe
extinct
petrified
mendacity
24. Can be felt touched understood
enzyme
finesse
succor
palpability
25. Bottomless extreme
peregrination
precursors
abysmal
tenuous
26. Fall plunge steeply
jagged
grandiloquent
plummet
insipid
27. Increasing the number spreading extending
evasive
pitfall
invective
propagation
28. Too tired
haughty
mettle
forge
fagged
29. Ending expiring
expiation
commodious
malapropism
incite
30. Border on
streak
deviance
rebus
abut
31. Physical beauty
striated
detumescence
wile
pulchritude
32. Deceit cunning
visceral
plethora
implicit
guile
33. Stare at
cabal
obdurate
extinct
fixate
34. Person who insists on importance of something
extant
abacus
stickler
tarnished
35. Pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
gourmand
vestige
prevalent
pliant
36. Long strip worn round the waist
sash
veneer
console
palpitate
37. Showing respect
transgress
deferential
bogus
visceral
38. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
scribble
ale
tangential
ardor
39. Complicated and embarrassing situation
efface
churlish
defalcate
imbroglio
40. Snub
rebuff
aleck
moderation
clot
41. Constant
inundate
penitent
incessant
portent
42. Brightly colored florid
consummate
welter
flamboyant
susceptibility
43. Formal praise eulogy
tenuous
auspicious
peremptory
panegyric
44. Implied though not plainly expressed
complaisant
implicit
ardor
defalcate
45. A trite or banal statement unoriginality
platitude
desuetude
dangle
perfunctory
46. Bad-tempered person
curmudgeon
gainsay
disingenuous
boorish
47. Effete no longer fertile worn out
forge
squalid
acarpous
superimpose
48. Soft light delicate material
flaunting
gossamer
preternatural
sumptuous
49. To cause pain - uneasiness - or trouble to.
connote
nostrum
inured
ail
50. Affirm something to be true
ebullience
chary
aver
foster