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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. Use until none remains
baneful
fringe
levee
deplete
2. Piece of linen worn as a necktie
cling
regicide
cravat
fervor
3. Mean contemptible
epistle
scurvy
insouciant
arrogance
4. Give comfort or sympathy to
breach
console
feckless
intersperse
5. Obvious
discern
pileous
Palpable
profane
6. Wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
provident
profligate
procrastination
soar
7. A blindly devoted patriot
chauvinist
oblivious
obfuscate
abraded
8. Not easily discouraged or subdued
ignominious
subsume
canvass
indomitable
9. Trace or sign
vestige
conundrum
nugatory
alloy
10. Speak distinctly connect by joints
articulate
derision
abate
vacuity
11. Forgive
servile
condone
secular
lament
12. Abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
conceit
palpability
obloquy
offhand
13. One who considers himself smarter than others
peremptory
erudite
aleck
commodious
14. Prolonged
pedestrian
protracted
insensible
hone
15. Self-confidence
aplomb
indistinct
fallacious
candid
16. Curse abuse in words
vituperate
alloy
valiant
obloquy
17. Cheap gaudy showy tacky
exorbitant
tawdry
obtuse
ferocity
18. Prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
cadge
reprobate
profuse
prone
19. Without preparation
impromptu
aberration
arrant
steeply
20. Not new
glut
blithe
trite
agog
21. Go or come up
truculence
ascend
commuter
ferment
22. Briefly without delay
husk
summarily
rotund
rarefy
23. Soaked saturated
sodden
cursory
rejuvenation
vacillation
24. Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
coalescing
gust
pious
cantankerous
25. Likely to come or happen soon
rave
imminent
ebullience
feint
26. To go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
impromptu
prune
console
abscond
27. FALSE counterfeit
spurious
shun
quell
wile
28. Obscene
extol
salacious
hack
allegiance
29. Be too tight take between the thumb and finger
ruffian
pinch
apotheosis
fission
30. Uprightness incorruptibility principle
drone
probity
repast
gorge
31. Arrogant pride
quixotic
valiant
Conduce
hubris
32. Without use result conceited
rave
belabor
vain
endorse
33. End (a debt) by setting aside money
amortize
prune
sordid
matriculation
34. Causing no harm
innocuous
hubris
morbid
coy
35. Unconcerned carefree
lionize
lope
obviate
insouciant
36. A riddle dilemma enigma
hospitable
sanctimony
conundrum
ferocity
37. Special liking mental preference
coerce
predilection
plead
resilience
38. Person who loves wealth and spends little
connote
officious
miser
amortize
39. Include under a rule
subsume
refine
venal
pusillanimous
40. Skeptical unwilling to believe
immaculate
epitome
gullible
incredulous
41. Deliver provide represent
taut
render
precursory
florid
42. Giving facts to support (statement)
trickle
dainty
heinous
substantiation
43. Haughty arrogant commanding
deter
crease
elegy
imperviousness
44. Feeling doubt
dubious
sequence
ecumenical
imperious
45. (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
exigency
decree
simper
indigence
46. Unconscious unresponsive unaffected
insensible
soot
abacus
boggle
47. Small boat
abstruse
asterisk
highbrow
skiff
48. Large pile of wood for burning
engrossing
assiduous
impugned
pyre
49. To bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
beatify
inadvertent
extort
malign
50. Sealed by fusion
ascetic
hermetic
lustrous
underbid