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