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