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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
:
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. Irritable easily angered
irascible
corroboration
sublime
lustrous
2. Touching neighboring near
contrite
libel
petulant
contiguous
3. Widespread
rarefy
misanthrope
enervate
rife
4. To hate to detest
luminary
abhor
mite
asterisk
5. Heavy with water
soggy
germane
raconteur
render
6. Strong dislike
animosity
strut
fulsome
fidelity
7. Include under a rule
petrified
sidestep
subsume
vex
8. Unaware having no memory
oblivious
gossamer
extinguish
enigma
9. Measure hoe heavy something is
stifled
profligacy
trenchant
weigh
10. Go or come up
offhand
ascend
platitude
squander
11. Reproving a person for his faults
assuage
fervid
sermon
cloture
12. Self-love
narcissism
tangential
cavalcade
shun
13. Steady regular
germane
equable
accretion
benevolence
14. Tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
esoteric
dexterity
emaciate
palpitate
15. Arrogance
presumption
morose
expatiate
cordon
16. Traveling about wandering
lavish
aspersion
peregrination
hoodwink
17. Put into difficulties
entangle
tawdry
dissolution
forfeit
18. Sluggish dull not tight
slack
pertain
pliant
impede
19. Deliberate deception
peripatetic
duplicity
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
dulcet
20. Hot enough to boil
pugnacious
hone
myriad
scalding
21. A trick
trepidation
wile
consternation
attune
22. Finical
craven
finicky
obsequious
insouciant
23. Polite and friendly
specious
evince
affable
impudent
24. Harmful causing mischief
steeply
mischievous
reticence
beatify
25. Make or become stiff and solid
imperative
congeal
laudatory
correlate
26. Curse abuse in words
detraction
surfeit
disallow
vituperate
27. A very small amount - portion - or particle
rant
sporadic
yeoman
mite
28. Primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
astringent
pristine
graze
edible
29. Circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
superfluous
eddy
heretic
garner
30. A raid a sudden attack
constrict
simper
incursion
rapacious
31. Tale story fibers for knitting
feud
yarn
antithetical
abacus
32. Too talkative
deviance
garrulous
plea
permeate
33. Likely to come or happen soon
provisional
pucker
imminent
attenuate
34. Too great a readiness to believe things
lumber
hoi
credulity
ford
35. See with an effort but clearly
broach
discern
ambiguous
aplomb
36. Free giving generosity
liberality
gouge
ostentation
august
37. Unmoved feeling no sign of passion
impassive
calipers
sermon
decry
38. Destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
onerous
pest
taciturn
unearth
39. Lessen the severity of
yeoman
ascertain
palliate
reticent
40. Aggressiveness ferocity
truculence
barren
epiphany
inasmuch
41. Move in a clumsy/noisy way
lumber
topple
baneful
equable
42. Covered with hair
pileous
placate
equable
cloture
43. Touch or scrape lightly in passing
sermon
suffocate
pinch
graze
44. Giving or producing freely liberally or generously
credulity
lavish
perspicacity
obviate
45. Suddenly changeable
forswear
droll
heresy
tangential
46. Interfere with
torment
salutary
inclined
tamper
47. Be out of view ready to attack
lurk
sodden
eulogy
roll
48. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
foppish
cantankerous
sporadic
epistle
49. Make or become soft by soaking in water
forbear
arrant
supercilious
macerate
50. Self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
testiness
avid
didactic
sanctimony