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