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