SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Pcat Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
pcat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. Essentially different
precarious
liberality
propagation
disparate
2. Show off complacently
balk
deviance
flaunting
dogmatic
3. Uncommunicativeness
commodious
reticence
heterogeneous
forage
4. Severe criticism
pivotal
excoriation
volatile
calumny
5. To gather and save to store up
impudent
heinous
garner
requite
6. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
benefactor
impute
yeoman
highbrow
7. Fairly good but not very good
precursors
substantiation
middling
penury
8. Arousing sensual pleasures
mesmerize
clamor
sting
voluptuous
9. Harmful injurious
onus
pernicious
lampoon
foster
10. Incapable of failure or error
deter
foolproof
whimsical
ambrosial
11. Getting farther apart from a point
putrefaction
introspection
divergence
Palpable
12. Fanciful - fantastic - imaginary
roll
quixotic
gossamer
fixate
13. Paint with dots
grievous
pliant
sluggard
stipple
14. To chastise correct by punishing
foible
grumble
castigate
philistine
15. Shy easily frightened
infuriate
timid
extrovert
subpoena
16. Expressing or giving praise
plethora
maul
laudatory
provoke
17. Native
canvass
indigenous
sheath
apostate
18. Propriety properness
exuberance
decorum
infuriate
blithe
19. Impress deeply
feint
penury
intransigence
engrave
20. Not easily exhaustible tirelessness
indefatigability
incise
venal
astringent
21. A sheet of floating ice
malign
ford
floe
peremptory
22. Diminishing or lessening of swelling
constrict
hollow
detumescence
pusillanimous
23. Be unsteady and overturn
trite
topple
antidote
fulsome
24. Tightly stretched
refine
bilge
taut
florid
25. Outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
idolatry
loll
gust
implosion
26. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
lumber
grandiloquent
fluke
cravat
27. (adj) boorish
dupe
erudite
epicurean
churlish
28. Quick hurried
abdication
offhand
cursory
prodigious
29. Low vulgar base tawdry
impecunious
consume
sophomoric
raffish
30. Incapable of being discovered or understood
inscrutable
obtuse
veneer
unscathed
31. Closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
engrave
wag
cloture
beguile
32. Prevent from carrying out contrast
solvent
foil
extant
slack
33. Lasting
enduring
constrain
affinity
calisthenics
34. Fall plunge steeply
foment
disheveled
plummet
impute
35. Reserved untalkative silent taciturn
wile
extant
predominate
reticent
36. That gives warning or information
preclude
telltale
vagary
extol
37. Situated beyond
plead
ulterior
avow
craven
38. Personal mannerism
barren
idiosyncrasy
panegyric
secular
39. Abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
partisan
reticence
temperance
dissemble
40. Roof of the mouth sense of taste
articulate
yarn
palate
commodious
41. Repulsive hateful
maladroit
odious
engender
sash
42. Written order
writ
beguile
implacable
procrastination
43. Stone used for sharpening tools
hone
plunge
conundrum
reiterate
44. Have nothing to do reject or refuse
spurn
latent
highbrow
complaisant
45. Rising of people to open resistance to
insurrection
coagulation
fret
plumb
46. Harmful; ominous; causing evil
temperate
baleful
reminiscent
limp
47. To make unnecessary get rid of
dainty
obviate
abysmal
cryptic
48. Helping supporting
supplicate
fret
mendacity
auxiliary
49. Reserved; indifferent
steeply
aloof
falter
impetuous
50. Based on error
gnaw
endeavor
fallacious
pillage