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