PET Word & Meaning2 - Quiz
  • 1. BACK
A) a container usually made of glass
B) to do something
C) the part behind the front
D) to damage severely
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to try to hear
B) to give reasons for
C) to help with information
D) to try to do as well as
  • 3. AGAIN
A) the hard material in the body
B) to say something that makes another person angry
C) another time, as before
D) a cloth cover used to keep warm
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) to show that the action is done
B) the number, size or weight of anything
C) having a thin edge that can cut
D) to have life, to exist
  • 5. AGE
A) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
B) how old a person or thing is
C) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
D) to work as an official
  • 6. ADMIT
A) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
B) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
C) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
D) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
  • 7. ANY
A) From higher to lower , in a low place
B) To return to good health, to cure
C) One or more of no special kind
D) A long-established belief or activity of people
  • 8. ANNOUNCE
A) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
B) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
C) To make known publicly, to declare officially
D) Different as possible, completely different from
  • 9. ACROSS
A) From side to side, to the other side
B) A building in which people live
C) At the end, last
D) A structure built over a waterway
  • 10. ASK
A) To question, to say something is wanted
B) To guard or fight against attack
C) Any business that produces goods or provides services
D) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
B) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
C) To add to or to change
D) The scientific study of stars and the universe
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) To move one way and the other
B) Truthful or able to be trusted
C) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
D) A number of people or things together
  • 13. ANSWER
A) A statement produced by a question
B) To cause a feeling of wonder
C) To continue
D) To believe that someone is honest
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) A family member from the past
B) The group that include children
C) To sit, lie down or sleep
D) A path on land or sea or in the air
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Big guns
B) Very shortly before or after the present
C) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
D) Needing an immediate decision
  • 16. AGO
A) Of time past, before now
B) A line of genes
C) A line of genes
D) Not guilty of a crime
  • 17. AS
A) A thought or picture in the mind
B) Not expected, without warning
C) Equally, when
D) To teach how to do something
  • 18. AVOID
A) To stay away from
B) To do or go fast
C) The coldest time of year
D) To come together with someone or something
  • 19. ANGER
A) To make larger, to grow larger
B) A strong emotion against someone
C) To come with something
D) To present to another to keep
  • 20. ABOVE
A) A material made from a plant
B) At a higher place
C) A machine without wings
D) To move smoothly over a surface
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) To put in order
B) A number representing the middle
C) To try with much effort
D) To pull apart
  • 22. AFRAID
A) Freedom from danger or harm
B) Feeling fear
C) To take away blame
D) To give, to provide
  • 23. ALMOST
A) A little less than completely
B) Of or having a relation to
C) However, other than
D) To force a fluid into
  • 24. AID
A) To help, to support
B) Land controlled by another country
C) To forgive for a crime
D) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) The force that pulls things
B) To agree to receive
C) To study or examine all information
D) A mass of fog high in the sky
  • 26. ACT
A) Having the power to do something
B) To be of the correct size or shape
C) A word used with an action
D) To do something
  • 27. ASH
A) The number meaning none
B) The part left after something burns
C) To extend for a distance
D) To hit again and again
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) Able to be done
B) To cause great fear
C) To express regret for a mistake
D) Having much knowledge and understanding
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) To cause pain, injury or damage
B) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
C) To act toward in a special way
D) The gas that comes from hot water
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) Connecting word used to link things
B) To make a part of
C) Place where airplanes take off
D) To give or receive one thing for another
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A large collection of money
B) A spending plan
C) Not one or the other two
D) To be against
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Corrosive, sarcastic
B) Courteous
C) Brawl, melee
D) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Lacking development
C) Rushing stream, flood
D) Winemaker, seller of wine
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Treat gently, pamper
B) Home
C) A place where bees are kept
D) Abnormal or deviant
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Rebound, reverberation
B) Solemn urging
C) Cancel, retract
D) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Repentant
B) Something attached holding an inferior position
C) Moving force, Incentive
D) Subordinate
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Line
B) Pardon an offense
C) Characteristic of an entire class
D) Slander, disgrace
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Projection, conjecture
B) Enormously large or extensive
C) Accidental, casual
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Express sympathetic sorrow
B) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
C) Chew the cud, ponder
D) Suggest a meaning not expressed
  • 40. ABJECT
A) Wretched, lacking pride
B) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
C) To strip a priest or minister
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Introduction, forerunner
B) Sentry, lookout
C) Dramatic poem set to music
D) Disloyal
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Discord
B) Injury to the body
C) Turn away from
D) Enthusiastic follower
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Spiritual rebirth
B) Skillful
C) Weightless
D) Shrink back, as if in fear
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Secret, hidden
B) Tyranny
C) Essentially, inherently
D) Openmouthed
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Move briskly
B) Not able to be perceived by touch
C) Expressing a low opinion
D) Limit, confine
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Bloody
B) Substance that propels forward
C) Teaching, instructional
D) Gradual intrusion
  • 47. DIE
A) Device for stamping or impressing
B) Declaration, statement of policy
C) Confuse, puzzle
D) Knickknack, bauble
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Mischance, ill luck
B) Behavior, bearing
C) Swollen or puffed as with water
D) Person hardened in sin
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Make a harsh noise
B) Dry up
C) Effusively sentimental
D) Theme
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Call upon, ask for
B) Scoff at
C) Waste
D) Survey of enemy by soldiers
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
B) Contract into wrinkles
C) Lack of consistency, difference
D) Something long-lasting
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Blues, listlessness
B) Sign, omen
C) Essential quality
D) Temporary invasion
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Slovenly, untidy
B) Solemn wonder
C) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
D) Basically different, unrelated
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Something new, newness
B) Honor, tribute
C) Lacking in spirit
D) Scowl
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Teaching, art of education
B) Deserving high respect
C) Statement that looks false but is correct
D) Squander
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Method or system of government
B) Program as for trial
C) Connoisseur of food and drink
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 57. DORMER
A) Profitable
B) Ardent
C) Stir up, instigate
D) Window projecting from roof
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Stupid, awkward person
B) Happening at the same time
C) Perceive intuitively
D) Eating away by chemicals or disease
  • 59. DON
A) Put on
B) Decay
C) Clever
D) Courage
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Financial aid
B) Guardianship
C) Ghostly
D) Scatter like seeds
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Beg persistently
B) Cloyingly sweet
C) Greedy, eager for
D) Pouring forth, gushing
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Explain, enlighten
B) Unruly
C) Ability to foretell the future
D) Half asleep
  • 63. DULCET
A) Sweet sounding
B) Follow
C) Excessive, overabundant
D) Shell covering the back of a turtle
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Conscientious, extremely thorough
B) High, lofty
C) Talkativeness
D) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Assist usually in doing something wrong
B) Command, order
C) Fate
D) Confuse, upset
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) Invention, imaginary thing
B) Courting favor by cringing
C) Choosing at random, confused
D) High praise, eulogy
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Beak, pen point
B) Uncouple, separate
C) Having womanly traits
D) Pompous array of words
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Pale, wan
B) Thrift, economy
C) Instruct, correct morally
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Period of equal days and nights
B) Hasty, rash
C) Copy
D) Issue forth
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Not able to be perceived
B) Throw into confusion
C) Stingy, excessively frugal
D) Seize, commandeer
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Relating to the highest point
B) Dwarf, underground spirit
C) Dissolve, disperse
D) Vex
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Vengeance, compensation
B) Tip
C) Bitterness, nerve
D) Connoisseur of food and drink
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
B) Lacking luxury and comfort
C) Having to do with predicting the future
D) Yellowed, prejudiced
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Pertaining to the church
B) Pleasant, friendly
C) Anger, fury
D) Not native, strange
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Inform
B) Showing off learning, bookish
C) Speak distinctly
D) Giving off an odor
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Verbose, drawn out
B) Druggist
C) Fair, impartial
D) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Marked with parallel bands
B) Ornament worn on the shoulder
C) Liberal, wasteful
D) Grow tiresome
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Extremely demanding
B) Impetuous, with marked vigor
C) Emit an odor
D) Bold
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Nearsighted
B) Extend, draw out
C) Serving as a model
D) Wander aimlessly
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Imagined, unreal
B) Bitterness, hatred
C) Rickety, falling apart
D) Word or phrase used to describe a person
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Relating to space
B) Concerning the sense of smell
C) Call by bugles or trumpets
D) Drink in
  • 82. FIAT
A) Command
B) Apparent, professed
C) Fertile, abundant
D) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
  • 83. FESTER
A) A light meal
B) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
C) Standstill, stalemate
D) Glowing ardor
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Make impossible, eliminate
B) Accuse, serve as evidence against
C) Meeting
D) Breeder or dealer of animals
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Most sacred, inviolable
B) Unreal, grotesque
C) Bear fruit
D) Spasmodic, intermittent
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Comprehend, investigate
B) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
C) Fear or hatred of foreigners
D) Outward decorations, ornaments
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Hardship, want
B) Sorcery magic
C) Interjection, profaner oath
D) Person wearing tattered clothes
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
B) Vicious assault
C) Courtesy, civility
D) Object of general attention
  • 89. FILCH
A) Burden
B) Prolong
C) Steal
D) Aimless follower of the arts
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
B) Vain about dress and appearance
C) Flabby
D) Diligent attention
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Existence, means of support
B) Beginner, novice
C) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
D) Rough-mannered
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Wealthy leader
B) Foul, rotten
C) Written statement made under oath
D) Someone who eats too much
  • 93. GAWK
A) Generate pus
B) Sharp projection form fishhook
C) Inhabitant of
D) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Group that meets socially
B) One of a family of mammals
C) Purgative
D) Motion, gesture
  • 95. GARNER
A) Gather, store up
B) Group that meets socially
C) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
D) Reproduce, duplicate
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Subordinate, secondary
B) Having the odor of stale fat
C) Easily broken, difficult
D) Bend the knee as in worship
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
B) Vague statement
C) Requiring sitting
D) Wasteful, reckless with money
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) False belief, hallucination
B) Pertaining to the of delineating
C) Oppression, cruel government
D) Profane, impious
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Sky blue
B) Subordinate
C) Crawl or creep on ground
D) Woman who rules a family
  • 100. GOAD
A) Urge on
B) Juicy, full of richness
C) Restrained, self-controlled
D) Those of gentle birth, refinement
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