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