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 give reasons for
B) to try to hear
C) to help with information
D) to try to do as well as
  • 3. AGAIN
A) the hard material in the body
B) another time, as before
C) to say something that makes another person angry
D) a cloth cover used to keep warm
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) having a thin edge that can cut
B) to have life, to exist
C) to show that the action is done
D) the number, size or weight of anything
  • 5. AGE
A) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
B) how old a person or thing is
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) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
C) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
D) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
  • 7. ANY
A) One or more of no special kind
B) From higher to lower , in a low place
C) A long-established belief or activity of people
D) To return to good health, to cure
  • 8. ANNOUNCE
A) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
B) Different as possible, completely different from
C) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
D) To make known publicly, to declare officially
  • 9. ACROSS
A) A structure built over a waterway
B) At the end, last
C) A building in which people live
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) Any business that produces goods or provides services
D) To question, to say something is wanted
  • 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) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
D) To add to or to change
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) To move one way and the other
B) A number of people or things together
C) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
D) Truthful or able to be trusted
  • 13. ANSWER
A) To continue
B) To believe that someone is honest
C) A statement produced by a question
D) To cause a feeling of wonder
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) A path on land or sea or in the air
B) A family member from the past
C) The group that include children
D) To sit, lie down or sleep
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Very shortly before or after the present
B) Needing an immediate decision
C) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
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) Equally, when
B) A thought or picture in the mind
C) Not expected, without warning
D) To teach how to do something
  • 18. AVOID
A) To do or go fast
B) To stay away from
C) To come together with someone or something
D) The coldest time of year
  • 19. ANGER
A) A strong emotion against someone
B) To come with something
C) To make larger, to grow larger
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 try with much effort
B) A number representing the middle
C) To pull apart
D) To put in order
  • 22. AFRAID
A) To give, to provide
B) Freedom from danger or harm
C) To take away blame
D) Feeling fear
  • 23. ALMOST
A) Of or having a relation to
B) To force a fluid into
C) A little less than completely
D) However, other than
  • 24. AID
A) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
B) To forgive for a crime
C) To help, to support
D) Land controlled by another country
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) To study or examine all information
B) To agree to receive
C) The force that pulls things
D) A mass of fog high in the sky
  • 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 number meaning none
D) The part left after something burns
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) To cause great fear
B) To express regret for a mistake
C) Having much knowledge and understanding
D) Able to be done
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
B) To act toward in a special way
C) The gas that comes from hot water
D) To cause pain, injury or damage
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) Connecting word used to link things
B) To make a part of
C) Place where airplanes take off
D) To give or receive one thing for another
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A spending plan
B) A large collection of money
C) Not one or the other two
D) To be against
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Corrosive, sarcastic
B) Brawl, melee
C) Courteous
D) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
  • 33. ADORN
A) Rushing stream, flood
B) Winemaker, seller of wine
C) Lacking development
D) Decorate
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) A place where bees are kept
B) Home
C) Abnormal or deviant
D) Treat gently, pamper
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
B) Cancel, retract
C) Rebound, reverberation
D) Solemn urging
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Something attached holding an inferior position
B) Repentant
C) Subordinate
D) Moving force, Incentive
  • 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) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
B) Chew the cud, ponder
C) Suggest a meaning not expressed
D) Express sympathetic sorrow
  • 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) Disloyal
C) Sentry, lookout
D) Dramatic poem set to music
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Turn away from
B) Injury to the body
C) Discord
D) Enthusiastic follower
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Spiritual rebirth
B) Weightless
C) Shrink back, as if in fear
D) Skillful
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Secret, hidden
B) Essentially, inherently
C) Tyranny
D) Openmouthed
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Limit, confine
B) Move briskly
C) Not able to be perceived by touch
D) Expressing a low opinion
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Teaching, instructional
B) Substance that propels forward
C) Gradual intrusion
D) Bloody
  • 47. DIE
A) Declaration, statement of policy
B) Confuse, puzzle
C) Device for stamping or impressing
D) Knickknack, bauble
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Behavior, bearing
B) Person hardened in sin
C) Swollen or puffed as with water
D) Mischance, ill luck
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Dry up
B) Effusively sentimental
C) Theme
D) Make a harsh noise
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Scoff at
B) Waste
C) Survey of enemy by soldiers
D) Call upon, ask for
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Contract into wrinkles
B) Lack of consistency, difference
C) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
D) Something long-lasting
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Temporary invasion
B) Blues, listlessness
C) Sign, omen
D) Essential quality
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
B) Solemn wonder
C) Basically different, unrelated
D) Slovenly, untidy
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Something new, newness
B) Scowl
C) Lacking in spirit
D) Honor, tribute
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Teaching, art of education
B) Squander
C) Deserving high respect
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) Ardent
C) Profitable
D) Stir up, instigate
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Perceive intuitively
B) Happening at the same time
C) Stupid, awkward person
D) Eating away by chemicals or disease
  • 59. DON
A) Put on
B) Clever
C) Decay
D) Courage
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Guardianship
B) Ghostly
C) Scatter like seeds
D) Financial aid
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Greedy, eager for
B) Pouring forth, gushing
C) Beg persistently
D) Cloyingly sweet
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Explain, enlighten
B) Unruly
C) Ability to foretell the future
D) Half asleep
  • 63. DULCET
A) Shell covering the back of a turtle
B) Sweet sounding
C) Follow
D) Excessive, overabundant
  • 64. EMINENT
A) High, lofty
B) Talkativeness
C) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
D) Conscientious, extremely thorough
  • 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) Choosing at random, confused
C) Invention, imaginary thing
D) High praise, eulogy
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Having womanly traits
B) Beak, pen point
C) Uncouple, separate
D) Pompous array of words
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Instruct, correct morally
B) Pale, wan
C) Thrift, economy
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Hasty, rash
B) Period of equal days and nights
C) Copy
D) Issue forth
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Stingy, excessively frugal
B) Seize, commandeer
C) Not able to be perceived
D) Throw into confusion
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Vex
B) Dissolve, disperse
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Relating to the highest point
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Connoisseur of food and drink
B) Tip
C) Bitterness, nerve
D) Vengeance, compensation
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Having to do with predicting the future
B) Yellowed, prejudiced
C) Lacking luxury and comfort
D) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Not native, strange
B) Pertaining to the church
C) Anger, fury
D) Pleasant, friendly
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Showing off learning, bookish
B) Speak distinctly
C) Giving off an odor
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) Liberal, wasteful
C) Grow tiresome
D) Marked with parallel bands
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Emit an odor
B) Impetuous, with marked vigor
C) Bold
D) Extremely demanding
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Wander aimlessly
B) Nearsighted
C) Serving as a model
D) Extend, draw out
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Imagined, unreal
B) Rickety, falling apart
C) Word or phrase used to describe a person
D) Bitterness, hatred
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Call by bugles or trumpets
B) Relating to space
C) Concerning the sense of smell
D) Drink in
  • 82. FIAT
A) Fertile, abundant
B) Apparent, professed
C) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
D) Command
  • 83. FESTER
A) Standstill, stalemate
B) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
C) A light meal
D) Glowing ardor
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Meeting
B) Accuse, serve as evidence against
C) Make impossible, eliminate
D) Breeder or dealer of animals
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Most sacred, inviolable
B) Spasmodic, intermittent
C) Bear fruit
D) Unreal, grotesque
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Fear or hatred of foreigners
B) Comprehend, investigate
C) Outward decorations, ornaments
D) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Interjection, profaner oath
B) Person wearing tattered clothes
C) Sorcery magic
D) Hardship, want
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Object of general attention
B) Vicious assault
C) Courtesy, civility
D) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
  • 89. FILCH
A) Aimless follower of the arts
B) Prolong
C) Steal
D) Burden
  • 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) Existence, means of support
D) Rough-mannered
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Wealthy leader
B) Written statement made under oath
C) Someone who eats too much
D) Foul, rotten
  • 93. GAWK
A) Generate pus
B) Sharp projection form fishhook
C) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
D) Inhabitant of
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Purgative
B) Group that meets socially
C) One of a family of mammals
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) Subordinate, secondary
C) Having the odor of stale fat
D) Bend the knee as in worship
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Vague statement
B) Wasteful, reckless with money
C) Requiring sitting
D) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Profane, impious
B) Oppression, cruel government
C) False belief, hallucination
D) Pertaining to the of delineating
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Subordinate
B) Crawl or creep on ground
C) Sky blue
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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