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