PET Word & Meaning2
  • 1. BACK
A) to damage severely
B) the part behind the front
C) to do something
D) a container usually made of glass
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to try to do as well as
B) to try to hear
C) to help with information
D) to give reasons for
  • 3. AGAIN
A) another time, as before
B) to say something that makes another person angry
C) the hard material in the body
D) a cloth cover used to keep warm
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) the number, size or weight of anything
B) having a thin edge that can cut
C) to show that the action is done
D) to have life, to exist
  • 5. AGE
A) to work as an official
B) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
C) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
D) how old a person or thing is
  • 6. ADMIT
A) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
B) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
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) A long-established belief or activity of people
B) To return to good health, to cure
C) One or more of no special kind
D) From higher to lower , in a low place
  • 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) A structure built over a waterway
B) A building in which people live
C) At the end, last
D) From side to side, to the other side
  • 10. ASK
A) To guard or fight against attack
B) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
C) To question, to say something is wanted
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) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
D) The scientific study of stars and the universe
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) To move one way and the other
B) Truthful or able to be trusted
C) A number of people or things together
D) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
  • 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) The group that include children
B) To sit, lie down or sleep
C) A path on land or sea or in the air
D) A family member from the past
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
B) Big guns
C) Needing an immediate decision
D) Very shortly before or after the present
  • 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) To teach how to do something
C) A thought or picture in the mind
D) Not expected, without warning
  • 18. AVOID
A) To stay away from
B) To come together with someone or something
C) To do or go fast
D) The coldest time of year
  • 19. ANGER
A) To present to another to keep
B) To come with something
C) To make larger, to grow larger
D) A strong emotion against someone
  • 20. ABOVE
A) To move smoothly over a surface
B) A material made from a plant
C) At a higher place
D) A machine without wings
  • 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) A little less than completely
B) However, other than
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) Land controlled by another country
D) To help, to support
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) To study or examine all information
B) To agree to receive
C) The force that pulls things
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) The part left after something burns
B) The number meaning none
C) To extend for a distance
D) To hit again and again
  • 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) 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) To give or receive one thing for another
B) Connecting word used to link things
C) Place where airplanes take off
D) To make a part of
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A large collection of money
B) To be against
C) Not one or the other two
D) A spending plan
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Corrosive, sarcastic
B) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
C) Brawl, melee
D) Courteous
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Winemaker, seller of wine
C) Lacking development
D) Rushing stream, flood
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Treat gently, pamper
B) Home
C) A place where bees are kept
D) Abnormal or deviant
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Solemn urging
B) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
C) Rebound, reverberation
D) Cancel, retract
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Subordinate
B) Something attached holding an inferior position
C) Moving force, Incentive
D) Repentant
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Slander, disgrace
B) Pardon an offense
C) Line
D) Characteristic of an entire class
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Enormously large or extensive
B) Accidental, casual
C) Projection, conjecture
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Suggest a meaning not expressed
B) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
C) Express sympathetic sorrow
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 40. ABJECT
A) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
B) To strip a priest or minister
C) Chew the cud, ponder
D) Wretched, lacking pride
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Introduction, forerunner
B) Disloyal
C) Sentry, lookout
D) Dramatic poem set to music
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Enthusiastic follower
B) Turn away from
C) Discord
D) Injury to the body
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Shrink back, as if in fear
B) Weightless
C) Spiritual rebirth
D) Skillful
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Openmouthed
B) Secret, hidden
C) Essentially, inherently
D) Tyranny
  • 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) Gradual intrusion
D) Substance that propels forward
  • 47. DIE
A) Confuse, puzzle
B) Device for stamping or impressing
C) Knickknack, bauble
D) Declaration, statement of policy
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Mischance, ill luck
B) Person hardened in sin
C) Swollen or puffed as with water
D) Behavior, bearing
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Dry up
B) Theme
C) Effusively sentimental
D) Make a harsh noise
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Scoff at
B) Waste
C) Survey of enemy by soldiers
D) Call upon, ask for
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Contract into wrinkles
B) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
C) Lack of consistency, difference
D) Something long-lasting
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Temporary invasion
B) Blues, listlessness
C) Essential quality
D) Sign, omen
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Solemn wonder
B) Slovenly, untidy
C) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
D) Basically different, unrelated
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Something new, newness
B) Honor, tribute
C) Scowl
D) Lacking in spirit
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Statement that looks false but is correct
B) Deserving high respect
C) Teaching, art of education
D) Squander
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Method or system of government
B) Enormously large or extensive
C) Program as for trial
D) Connoisseur of food and drink
  • 57. DORMER
A) Profitable
B) Stir up, instigate
C) Ardent
D) Window projecting from roof
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Happening at the same time
B) Perceive intuitively
C) Eating away by chemicals or disease
D) Stupid, awkward person
  • 59. DON
A) Put on
B) Clever
C) Decay
D) Courage
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Ghostly
B) Financial aid
C) Scatter like seeds
D) Guardianship
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Pouring forth, gushing
B) Greedy, eager for
C) Cloyingly sweet
D) Beg persistently
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Unruly
B) Half asleep
C) Explain, enlighten
D) Ability to foretell the future
  • 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) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
D) Talkativeness
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Confuse, upset
B) Command, order
C) Fate
D) Assist usually in doing something wrong
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) Courting favor by cringing
B) Choosing at random, confused
C) High praise, eulogy
D) Invention, imaginary thing
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Pompous array of words
B) Uncouple, separate
C) Beak, pen point
D) Having womanly traits
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Instruct, correct morally
B) Pale, wan
C) Thrift, economy
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Hasty, rash
B) Issue forth
C) Copy
D) Period of equal days and nights
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Seize, commandeer
B) Not able to be perceived
C) Stingy, excessively frugal
D) Throw into confusion
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Vex
B) Dissolve, disperse
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Relating to the highest point
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Vengeance, compensation
B) Tip
C) Connoisseur of food and drink
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) Pertaining to the church
B) Anger, fury
C) Not native, strange
D) Pleasant, friendly
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Giving off an odor
B) Speak distinctly
C) Showing off learning, bookish
D) Inform
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Verbose, drawn out
B) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
C) Druggist
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) Extremely demanding
B) Impetuous, with marked vigor
C) Bold
D) Emit an odor
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Wander aimlessly
B) Extend, draw out
C) Nearsighted
D) Serving as a model
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Bitterness, hatred
B) Imagined, unreal
C) Rickety, falling apart
D) Word or phrase used to describe a person
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Drink in
B) Relating to space
C) Call by bugles or trumpets
D) Concerning the sense of smell
  • 82. FIAT
A) Command
B) Fertile, abundant
C) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
D) Apparent, professed
  • 83. FESTER
A) Standstill, stalemate
B) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
C) Glowing ardor
D) A light meal
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Breeder or dealer of animals
B) Meeting
C) Accuse, serve as evidence against
D) Make impossible, eliminate
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Spasmodic, intermittent
B) Most sacred, inviolable
C) Bear fruit
D) Unreal, grotesque
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Fear or hatred of foreigners
B) Comprehend, investigate
C) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
D) Outward decorations, ornaments
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Sorcery magic
B) Person wearing tattered clothes
C) Hardship, want
D) Interjection, profaner oath
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Vicious assault
B) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
C) Object of general attention
D) Courtesy, civility
  • 89. FILCH
A) Burden
B) Aimless follower of the arts
C) Steal
D) Prolong
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
B) Flabby
C) Diligent attention
D) Vain about dress and appearance
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Existence, means of support
B) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
C) Rough-mannered
D) Beginner, novice
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Written statement made under oath
B) Wealthy leader
C) Someone who eats too much
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) One of a family of mammals
B) Motion, gesture
C) Group that meets socially
D) Purgative
  • 95. GARNER
A) Reproduce, duplicate
B) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
C) Gather, store up
D) Group that meets socially
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Subordinate, secondary
B) Having the odor of stale fat
C) Easily broken, difficult
D) Bend the knee as in worship
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Vague statement
B) Wasteful, reckless with money
C) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
D) Requiring sitting
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Profane, impious
B) False belief, hallucination
C) Oppression, cruel government
D) Pertaining to the of delineating
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Sky blue
B) Crawl or creep on ground
C) Woman who rules a family
D) Subordinate
  • 100. GOAD
A) Urge on
B) Restrained, self-controlled
C) Those of gentle birth, refinement
D) Juicy, full of richness
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