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Pcat Vocab
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Subjects
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pcat
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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. To protest object
infuse
lithe
remonstrate
talon
2. Expressing or giving praise
muffler
turbid
laudatory
levity
3. Like a slave lacking independence
gauche
congeal
servile
surfeit
4. Hatred being an enemy
pundit
nexus
enmity
vituperate
5. Transparent gauzy
penury
diaphanous
plead
disheveled
6. Show some inclination to accept (an offer)
forgery
nibble
apprise
splice
7. Careful economical
frugal
dainty
refulgent
adorn
8. Shout complain with a lot of noise
plead
cognizant
clamor
grievous
9. Tightly stretched
ambidextrous
taut
vindictive
salubrious
10. Unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
gourmand
insularity
intransigence
soporific
11. Brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
loquacious
importune
reprobate
exploit
12. Devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
endorse
epicurean
rivet
stray
13. Active quick-moving
premature
infuriate
foil
agile
14. Tiresome
coagulation
baneful
irksome
regale
15. Obtain by threats violence
tarnished
sordid
extort
maudlin
16. To hinder obstruct or block
stymie
apprehensive
curmudgeon
alleviate
17. (v) to embezzle or misappropriate
indefatigability
defalcate
puissance
impromptu
18. Over look at with selfish delight
hermetic
proscribe
gloat
ambidextrous
19. Quality of endurance or courage
Conduce
mettle
levee
hone
20. Star light-giving body
middling
coeval
luminary
deprecate
21. Summary or outline
abet
synopsis
rancorous
inept
22. Producing sleep
soporific
tassel
subpoena
ale
23. Urgent essential
affable
imperative
middling
belligerent
24. Firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
valorous
clinch
tenacity
churlish
25. Criticism/anti-aircraft guns
boisterous
flak
falter
recondite
26. Tending to comply obliging willingness to please
somatic
terse
complaisance
covert
27. Offensive disgusting (smell)
vitriolic
negligent
noisome
encomium
28. Strong convincing
cogent
fagged
diatribe
urbane
29. End (a debt) by setting aside money
vitiate
amortize
castigation
obfuscate
30. Eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
machination
plunge
aggravate
gorge
31. With attack violently
assail
pariah
torment
unearth
32. Cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
introspection
lope
sheath
prudish
33. Spread through every part of
discountenance
petrous
pervade
preponderance
34. Essentially different
petulant
sundry
maverick
disparate
35. Man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
perspicacity
yeoman
reticent
effrontery
36. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably
seminal
provident
reverent
ensconce
37. An outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
descry
pedantic
pliant
denouement
38. Suggest something in the past
reminiscent
covetous
condense
ambrosial
39. Getting farther apart from a point
spear
frantic
timorous
divergence
40. Not paying proper attention
inadvertent
defer
alacrity
finical
41. Since because
occluded
gullible
inasmuch
reticent
42. Calm not capable of being excited
interim
cadge
imperturbable
supine
43. Coming together and uniting into one substance
forfeit
forage
decry
coalescing
44. That cannot be rubbed out
contiguous
profane
efface
indelible
45. Approval
flop
approbation
irresolute
tractable
46. Lukewarm
meticulous
disheveled
tepid
dislodge
47. Situated beyond
hush
fledged
ulterior
credulity
48. Taking too little care
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl)
veritable
finicky
negligent
49. Take in by swallowing
cravat
forestall
impermeable
ingest
50. Something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
impediment
console
extinguish
august