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