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