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