PET Word & Meaning2
  • 1. BACK
A) the part behind the front
B) to damage severely
C) to do something
D) a container usually made of glass
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to help with information
B) to give reasons for
C) to try to do as well as
D) to try to hear
  • 3. AGAIN
A) the hard material in the body
B) to say something that makes another person angry
C) another time, as before
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) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
B) how old a person or thing is
C) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
D) to work as an official
  • 6. ADMIT
A) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
B) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
C) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
D) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
  • 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) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
B) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
C) To make known publicly, to declare officially
D) Different as possible, completely different from
  • 9. ACROSS
A) From side to side, to the other side
B) A building in which people live
C) A structure built over a waterway
D) At the end, last
  • 10. ASK
A) Any business that produces goods or provides services
B) To question, to say something is wanted
C) To guard or fight against attack
D) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
B) To add to or to change
C) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
D) The scientific study of stars and the universe
  • 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 believe that someone is honest
B) To cause a feeling of wonder
C) A statement produced by a question
D) To continue
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) A family member from the past
B) The group that include children
C) A path on land or sea or in the air
D) To sit, lie down or sleep
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Needing an immediate decision
B) Very shortly before or after the present
C) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
D) Big guns
  • 16. AGO
A) Not guilty of a crime
B) A line of genes
C) Of time past, before now
D) A line of genes
  • 17. AS
A) Not expected, without warning
B) To teach how to do something
C) Equally, when
D) A thought or picture in the mind
  • 18. AVOID
A) To do or go fast
B) The coldest time of year
C) To come together with someone or something
D) To stay away from
  • 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) 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 put in order
B) To pull apart
C) A number representing the middle
D) To try with much effort
  • 22. AFRAID
A) Feeling fear
B) To take away blame
C) To give, to provide
D) Freedom from danger or harm
  • 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) To forgive for a crime
B) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
C) To help, to support
D) Land controlled by another country
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) To agree to receive
B) The force that pulls things
C) A mass of fog high in the sky
D) To study or examine all information
  • 26. ACT
A) Having the power to do something
B) To be of the correct size or shape
C) To do something
D) A word used with an action
  • 27. ASH
A) The number meaning none
B) The part left after something burns
C) To hit again and again
D) To extend for a distance
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) Able to be done
B) Having much knowledge and understanding
C) To express regret for a mistake
D) To cause great fear
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) The gas that comes from hot water
B) To act toward in a special way
C) To cause pain, injury or damage
D) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) To make a part of
B) Connecting word used to link things
C) To give or receive one thing for another
D) Place where airplanes take off
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A spending plan
B) Not one or the other two
C) A large collection of money
D) To be against
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Corrosive, sarcastic
B) Brawl, melee
C) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
D) Courteous
  • 33. ADORN
A) Rushing stream, flood
B) Winemaker, seller of wine
C) Decorate
D) Lacking development
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Abnormal or deviant
B) A place where bees are kept
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) Repentant
B) Moving force, Incentive
C) Subordinate
D) Something attached holding an inferior position
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Pardon an offense
B) Line
C) Characteristic of an entire class
D) Slander, disgrace
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Title, chapter heading
B) Accidental, casual
C) Projection, conjecture
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
B) Suggest a meaning not expressed
C) Express sympathetic sorrow
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 40. ABJECT
A) To strip a priest or minister
B) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
C) Wretched, lacking pride
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Sentry, lookout
B) Disloyal
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) Spiritual rebirth
B) Shrink back, as if in fear
C) Weightless
D) Skillful
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Secret, hidden
B) Openmouthed
C) Tyranny
D) Essentially, inherently
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Expressing a low opinion
B) Not able to be perceived by touch
C) Limit, confine
D) Move briskly
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Bloody
B) Teaching, instructional
C) Substance that propels forward
D) Gradual intrusion
  • 47. DIE
A) Knickknack, bauble
B) Confuse, puzzle
C) Declaration, statement of policy
D) Device for stamping or impressing
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Person hardened in sin
B) Swollen or puffed as with water
C) Mischance, ill luck
D) Behavior, bearing
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Effusively sentimental
B) Make a harsh noise
C) Dry up
D) Theme
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Waste
B) Scoff at
C) Survey of enemy by soldiers
D) Call upon, ask for
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
B) Something long-lasting
C) Contract into wrinkles
D) Lack of consistency, difference
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Sign, omen
B) Blues, listlessness
C) Temporary invasion
D) Essential quality
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Slovenly, untidy
B) Basically different, unrelated
C) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
D) Solemn wonder
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Lacking in spirit
B) Scowl
C) Something new, newness
D) Honor, tribute
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Deserving high respect
B) Statement that looks false but is correct
C) Squander
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) Profitable
B) Ardent
C) Window projecting from roof
D) Stir up, instigate
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Perceive intuitively
B) Happening at the same time
C) Eating away by chemicals or disease
D) Stupid, awkward person
  • 59. DON
A) Courage
B) Decay
C) Put on
D) Clever
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Scatter like seeds
B) Financial aid
C) Guardianship
D) Ghostly
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Greedy, eager for
B) Pouring forth, gushing
C) Cloyingly sweet
D) Beg persistently
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Unruly
B) Explain, enlighten
C) Ability to foretell the future
D) Half asleep
  • 63. DULCET
A) Sweet sounding
B) Follow
C) Shell covering the back of a turtle
D) Excessive, overabundant
  • 64. EMINENT
A) High, lofty
B) Conscientious, extremely thorough
C) Talkativeness
D) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Confuse, upset
B) Fate
C) Command, order
D) Assist usually in doing something wrong
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) Invention, imaginary thing
B) Courting favor by cringing
C) High praise, eulogy
D) Choosing at random, confused
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Uncouple, separate
B) Pompous array of words
C) Having womanly traits
D) Beak, pen point
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Pale, wan
B) Thrift, economy
C) Title, chapter heading
D) Instruct, correct morally
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Copy
B) Period of equal days and nights
C) Hasty, rash
D) Issue forth
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Throw into confusion
B) Seize, commandeer
C) Not able to be perceived
D) Stingy, excessively frugal
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Relating to the highest point
B) Dissolve, disperse
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Vex
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Connoisseur of food and drink
B) Tip
C) Vengeance, compensation
D) Bitterness, nerve
  • 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) Pleasant, friendly
B) Not native, strange
C) Anger, fury
D) Pertaining to the church
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Speak distinctly
B) Giving off an odor
C) Showing off learning, bookish
D) Inform
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Verbose, drawn out
B) Fair, impartial
C) Druggist
D) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Grow tiresome
B) Marked with parallel bands
C) Liberal, wasteful
D) Ornament worn on the shoulder
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Emit an odor
B) Bold
C) Impetuous, with marked vigor
D) Extremely demanding
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Nearsighted
B) Extend, draw out
C) Wander aimlessly
D) Serving as a model
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Rickety, falling apart
B) Imagined, unreal
C) Word or phrase used to describe a person
D) Bitterness, hatred
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Relating to space
B) Call by bugles or trumpets
C) Concerning the sense of smell
D) Drink in
  • 82. FIAT
A) Command
B) Fertile, abundant
C) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
D) Apparent, professed
  • 83. FESTER
A) Glowing ardor
B) A light meal
C) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
D) Standstill, stalemate
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Accuse, serve as evidence against
B) Meeting
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) Comprehend, investigate
B) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
C) Fear or hatred of foreigners
D) Outward decorations, ornaments
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Person wearing tattered clothes
B) Hardship, want
C) Sorcery magic
D) Interjection, profaner oath
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Object of general attention
B) Courtesy, civility
C) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
D) Vicious assault
  • 89. FILCH
A) Aimless follower of the arts
B) Burden
C) Prolong
D) Steal
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
B) Flabby
C) Vain about dress and appearance
D) Diligent attention
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
B) Rough-mannered
C) Existence, means of support
D) Beginner, novice
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Someone who eats too much
B) Wealthy leader
C) Written statement made under oath
D) Foul, rotten
  • 93. GAWK
A) Generate pus
B) Inhabitant of
C) Sharp projection form fishhook
D) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Motion, gesture
B) One of a family of mammals
C) Group that meets socially
D) Purgative
  • 95. GARNER
A) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
B) Reproduce, duplicate
C) Gather, store up
D) Group that meets socially
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Having the odor of stale fat
B) Easily broken, difficult
C) Bend the knee as in worship
D) Subordinate, secondary
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Vague statement
B) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
C) Requiring sitting
D) Wasteful, reckless with money
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) False belief, hallucination
B) Oppression, cruel government
C) Profane, impious
D) Pertaining to the of delineating
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Subordinate
B) Crawl or creep on ground
C) Woman who rules a family
D) Sky blue
  • 100. GOAD
A) Juicy, full of richness
B) Those of gentle birth, refinement
C) Urge on
D) Restrained, self-controlled
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