PET Word & Meaning2
  • 1. BACK
A) the part behind the front
B) to do something
C) to damage severely
D) a container usually made of glass
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to try to hear
B) to try to do as well as
C) to help with information
D) to give reasons for
  • 3. AGAIN
A) a cloth cover used to keep warm
B) to say something that makes another person angry
C) the hard material in the body
D) another time, as before
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) to have life, to exist
B) the number, size or weight of anything
C) to show that the action is done
D) having a thin edge that can cut
  • 5. AGE
A) how old a person or thing is
B) to work as an official
C) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
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) From higher to lower , in a low place
B) A long-established belief or activity of people
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) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
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) To question, to say something is wanted
B) Any business that produces goods or provides services
C) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
D) To guard or fight against attack
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) To add to or to change
B) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
C) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
D) The scientific study of stars and the universe
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) Truthful or able to be trusted
B) To move one way and the other
C) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
D) A number of people or things together
  • 13. ANSWER
A) A statement produced by a question
B) To continue
C) To cause a feeling of wonder
D) To believe that someone is honest
  • 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) Big guns
B) Very shortly before or after the present
C) Needing an immediate decision
D) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
  • 16. AGO
A) Of time past, before now
B) Not guilty of a crime
C) A line of genes
D) A line of genes
  • 17. AS
A) Equally, when
B) Not expected, without warning
C) To teach how to do something
D) A thought or picture in the mind
  • 18. AVOID
A) To stay away from
B) To do or go fast
C) The coldest time of year
D) To come together with someone or something
  • 19. ANGER
A) A strong emotion against someone
B) To make larger, to grow larger
C) To present to another to keep
D) To come with something
  • 20. ABOVE
A) A material made from a plant
B) At a higher place
C) A machine without wings
D) To move smoothly over a surface
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) A number representing the middle
B) To put in order
C) To try with much effort
D) To pull apart
  • 22. AFRAID
A) Feeling fear
B) To take away blame
C) Freedom from danger or harm
D) To give, to provide
  • 23. ALMOST
A) To force a fluid into
B) However, other than
C) Of or having a relation to
D) A little less than completely
  • 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) 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) To be of the correct size or shape
B) To do something
C) Having the power to do something
D) A word used with an action
  • 27. ASH
A) To extend for a distance
B) To hit again and again
C) The part left after something burns
D) The number meaning none
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) Able to be done
B) To express regret for a mistake
C) To cause great fear
D) Having much knowledge and understanding
  • 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 give or receive one thing for another
D) To make a part of
  • 31. BUDGET
A) Not one or the other two
B) To be against
C) A large collection of money
D) A spending plan
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
B) Brawl, melee
C) Courteous
D) Corrosive, sarcastic
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Winemaker, seller of wine
C) Rushing stream, flood
D) Lacking development
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Home
B) Treat gently, pamper
C) A place where bees are kept
D) Abnormal or deviant
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Rebound, reverberation
B) Solemn urging
C) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
D) Cancel, retract
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Repentant
B) Something attached holding an inferior position
C) Subordinate
D) Moving force, Incentive
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Slander, disgrace
B) Pardon an offense
C) Line
D) Characteristic of an entire class
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Accidental, casual
B) Title, chapter heading
C) Enormously large or extensive
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) Chew the cud, ponder
C) To strip a priest or minister
D) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Dramatic poem set to music
B) Introduction, forerunner
C) Sentry, lookout
D) Disloyal
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Enthusiastic follower
B) Injury to the body
C) Turn away from
D) Discord
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Weightless
B) Shrink back, as if in fear
C) Skillful
D) Spiritual rebirth
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Tyranny
B) Secret, hidden
C) Openmouthed
D) Essentially, inherently
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Move briskly
B) Not able to be perceived by touch
C) Limit, confine
D) Expressing a low opinion
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Gradual intrusion
B) Bloody
C) Substance that propels forward
D) Teaching, instructional
  • 47. DIE
A) Confuse, puzzle
B) Declaration, statement of policy
C) Device for stamping or impressing
D) Knickknack, bauble
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Swollen or puffed as with water
B) Behavior, bearing
C) Mischance, ill luck
D) Person hardened in sin
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Effusively sentimental
B) Theme
C) Dry up
D) Make a harsh noise
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Waste
B) Survey of enemy by soldiers
C) Scoff at
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) Sign, omen
C) Essential quality
D) Blues, listlessness
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Slovenly, untidy
B) Solemn wonder
C) Basically different, unrelated
D) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Lacking in spirit
B) Something new, newness
C) Scowl
D) Honor, tribute
  • 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) Program as for trial
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 57. DORMER
A) Ardent
B) Window projecting from roof
C) Stir up, instigate
D) Profitable
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Happening at the same time
B) Stupid, awkward person
C) Perceive intuitively
D) Eating away by chemicals or disease
  • 59. DON
A) Clever
B) Put on
C) Courage
D) Decay
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Financial aid
B) Guardianship
C) Ghostly
D) Scatter like seeds
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Beg persistently
B) Greedy, eager for
C) Cloyingly sweet
D) Pouring forth, gushing
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Half asleep
B) Unruly
C) Ability to foretell the future
D) Explain, enlighten
  • 63. DULCET
A) Shell covering the back of a turtle
B) Excessive, overabundant
C) Sweet sounding
D) Follow
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Talkativeness
B) Conscientious, extremely thorough
C) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
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) Invention, imaginary thing
C) Courting favor by cringing
D) High praise, eulogy
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Pompous array of words
B) Beak, pen point
C) Having womanly traits
D) Uncouple, separate
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Title, chapter heading
B) Instruct, correct morally
C) Pale, wan
D) Thrift, economy
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Copy
B) Hasty, rash
C) Period of equal days and nights
D) Issue forth
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Not able to be perceived
B) Seize, commandeer
C) Throw into confusion
D) Stingy, excessively frugal
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Vex
B) Dwarf, underground spirit
C) Dissolve, disperse
D) Relating to the highest point
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Tip
B) Bitterness, nerve
C) Vengeance, compensation
D) Connoisseur of food and drink
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Lacking luxury and comfort
B) Yellowed, prejudiced
C) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
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) Showing off learning, bookish
B) Inform
C) Giving off an odor
D) Speak distinctly
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Fair, impartial
B) Druggist
C) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
D) Verbose, drawn out
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Liberal, wasteful
B) Ornament worn on the shoulder
C) Grow tiresome
D) Marked with parallel bands
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Extremely demanding
B) Bold
C) Impetuous, with marked vigor
D) Emit an odor
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Serving as a model
B) Nearsighted
C) Wander aimlessly
D) Extend, draw out
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Imagined, unreal
B) Word or phrase used to describe a person
C) Bitterness, hatred
D) Rickety, falling apart
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Call by bugles or trumpets
B) Concerning the sense of smell
C) Drink in
D) Relating to space
  • 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) Standstill, stalemate
C) Glowing ardor
D) A light meal
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Make impossible, eliminate
B) Meeting
C) Breeder or dealer of animals
D) Accuse, serve as evidence against
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Bear fruit
B) Most sacred, inviolable
C) Unreal, grotesque
D) Spasmodic, intermittent
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Comprehend, investigate
B) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
C) Outward decorations, ornaments
D) Fear or hatred of foreigners
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Hardship, want
B) Interjection, profaner oath
C) Sorcery magic
D) Person wearing tattered clothes
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
B) Courtesy, civility
C) Vicious assault
D) Object of general attention
  • 89. FILCH
A) Burden
B) Prolong
C) Steal
D) Aimless follower of the arts
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Flabby
B) Diligent attention
C) Vain about dress and appearance
D) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Beginner, novice
B) Rough-mannered
C) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
D) Existence, means of support
  • 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) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
D) Sharp projection form fishhook
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Purgative
B) One of a family of mammals
C) Group that meets socially
D) Motion, gesture
  • 95. GARNER
A) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
B) Reproduce, duplicate
C) Group that meets socially
D) Gather, store up
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Easily broken, difficult
B) Bend the knee as in worship
C) Subordinate, secondary
D) Having the odor of stale fat
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
B) Requiring sitting
C) Vague statement
D) Wasteful, reckless with money
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Pertaining to the of delineating
B) False belief, hallucination
C) Profane, impious
D) Oppression, cruel government
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Sky blue
B) Crawl or creep on ground
C) Subordinate
D) Woman who rules a family
  • 100. GOAD
A) Urge on
B) Juicy, full of richness
C) Those of gentle birth, refinement
D) Restrained, self-controlled
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