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