PET Word & Meaning2
  • 1. BACK
A) to do something
B) the part behind the front
C) to damage severely
D) a container usually made of glass
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to help with information
B) to try to do as well as
C) to try to hear
D) to give reasons for
  • 3. AGAIN
A) to say something that makes another person angry
B) the hard material in the body
C) another time, as before
D) a cloth cover used to keep warm
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) the number, size or weight of anything
B) to have life, to exist
C) to show that the action is done
D) having a thin edge that can cut
  • 5. AGE
A) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
B) how old a person or thing is
C) to work as an official
D) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
  • 6. ADMIT
A) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
B) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
C) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
D) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
  • 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) To make known publicly, to declare officially
B) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
C) Different as possible, completely different from
D) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
  • 9. ACROSS
A) A building in which people live
B) At the end, last
C) From side to side, to the other side
D) A structure built over a waterway
  • 10. ASK
A) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
B) To question, to say something is wanted
C) To guard or fight against attack
D) Any business that produces goods or provides services
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
B) To add to or to change
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) A number of people or things together
B) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
C) Truthful or able to be trusted
D) To move one way and the other
  • 13. ANSWER
A) To believe that someone is honest
B) To continue
C) A statement produced by a question
D) To cause a feeling of wonder
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) A path on land or sea or in the air
B) To sit, lie down or sleep
C) A family member from the past
D) The group that include children
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Needing an immediate decision
B) Big guns
C) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
D) Very shortly before or after the present
  • 16. AGO
A) Of time past, before now
B) A line of genes
C) Not guilty of a crime
D) A line of genes
  • 17. AS
A) A thought or picture in the mind
B) To teach how to do something
C) Equally, when
D) Not expected, without warning
  • 18. AVOID
A) The coldest time of year
B) To do or go fast
C) To stay away from
D) To come together with someone or something
  • 19. ANGER
A) To present to another to keep
B) A strong emotion against someone
C) To come with something
D) To make larger, to grow larger
  • 20. ABOVE
A) To move smoothly over a surface
B) A material made from a plant
C) A machine without wings
D) At a higher place
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) To put in order
B) A number representing the middle
C) To try with much effort
D) To pull apart
  • 22. AFRAID
A) Feeling fear
B) To give, to provide
C) Freedom from danger or harm
D) To take away blame
  • 23. ALMOST
A) Of or having a relation to
B) A little less than completely
C) To force a fluid into
D) However, other than
  • 24. AID
A) To forgive for a crime
B) Land controlled by another country
C) To help, to support
D) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
  • 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) 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) The part left after something burns
B) To hit again and again
C) The number meaning none
D) To extend for a distance
  • 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) The gas that comes from hot water
B) To cause pain, injury or damage
C) To act toward in a special way
D) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) Place where airplanes take off
B) To give or receive one thing for another
C) To make a part of
D) Connecting word used to link things
  • 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) Brawl, melee
B) Corrosive, sarcastic
C) Courteous
D) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
  • 33. ADORN
A) Lacking development
B) Winemaker, seller of wine
C) Decorate
D) Rushing stream, flood
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Abnormal or deviant
B) Treat gently, pamper
C) A place where bees are kept
D) Home
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Solemn urging
B) Cancel, retract
C) Rebound, reverberation
D) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Something attached holding an inferior position
B) Subordinate
C) Repentant
D) Moving force, Incentive
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Characteristic of an entire class
B) Slander, disgrace
C) Line
D) Pardon an offense
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Projection, conjecture
B) Title, chapter heading
C) Accidental, casual
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Suggest a meaning not expressed
B) Chew the cud, ponder
C) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
D) Express sympathetic sorrow
  • 40. ABJECT
A) To strip a priest or minister
B) Chew the cud, ponder
C) Wretched, lacking pride
D) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Sentry, lookout
B) Introduction, forerunner
C) Disloyal
D) Dramatic poem set to music
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Discord
B) Injury to the body
C) Enthusiastic follower
D) Turn away from
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Weightless
B) Shrink back, as if in fear
C) Skillful
D) Spiritual rebirth
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Secret, hidden
B) Essentially, inherently
C) Tyranny
D) Openmouthed
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Not able to be perceived by touch
B) Limit, confine
C) Expressing a low opinion
D) Move briskly
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Gradual intrusion
B) Teaching, instructional
C) Bloody
D) Substance that propels forward
  • 47. DIE
A) Knickknack, bauble
B) Confuse, puzzle
C) Device for stamping or impressing
D) Declaration, statement of policy
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Swollen or puffed as with water
B) Person hardened in sin
C) Mischance, ill luck
D) Behavior, bearing
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Make a harsh noise
B) Dry up
C) Theme
D) Effusively sentimental
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Survey of enemy by soldiers
B) Scoff at
C) Call upon, ask for
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) Blues, listlessness
B) Essential quality
C) Temporary invasion
D) Sign, omen
  • 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) Lacking in spirit
C) Honor, tribute
D) Scowl
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Teaching, art of education
B) Statement that looks false but is correct
C) Deserving high respect
D) Squander
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Connoisseur of food and drink
B) Program as for trial
C) Method or system of government
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 57. DORMER
A) Profitable
B) Window projecting from roof
C) Ardent
D) Stir up, instigate
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Happening at the same time
B) Eating away by chemicals or disease
C) Stupid, awkward person
D) Perceive intuitively
  • 59. DON
A) Courage
B) Clever
C) Decay
D) Put on
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Guardianship
B) Financial aid
C) Scatter like seeds
D) Ghostly
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Pouring forth, gushing
B) Greedy, eager for
C) Cloyingly sweet
D) Beg persistently
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Explain, enlighten
B) Half asleep
C) Unruly
D) Ability to foretell the future
  • 63. DULCET
A) Shell covering the back of a turtle
B) Follow
C) Excessive, overabundant
D) Sweet sounding
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
B) High, lofty
C) Talkativeness
D) Conscientious, extremely thorough
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Confuse, upset
B) Command, order
C) Fate
D) Assist usually in doing something wrong
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) Choosing at random, confused
B) High praise, eulogy
C) Courting favor by cringing
D) Invention, imaginary thing
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Uncouple, separate
B) Pompous array of words
C) Beak, pen point
D) Having womanly traits
  • 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) Dissolve, disperse
B) Relating to the highest point
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Vex
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Vengeance, compensation
B) Tip
C) Connoisseur of food and drink
D) Bitterness, nerve
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Having to do with predicting the future
B) Yellowed, prejudiced
C) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
D) Lacking luxury and comfort
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Anger, fury
B) Pleasant, friendly
C) Pertaining to the church
D) Not native, strange
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Showing off learning, bookish
B) Giving off an odor
C) Speak distinctly
D) Inform
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Druggist
B) Fair, impartial
C) Verbose, drawn out
D) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Ornament worn on the shoulder
B) Grow tiresome
C) Marked with parallel bands
D) Liberal, wasteful
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Bold
B) Emit an odor
C) Impetuous, with marked vigor
D) Extremely demanding
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Nearsighted
B) Wander aimlessly
C) Serving as a model
D) Extend, draw out
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Bitterness, hatred
B) Imagined, unreal
C) Word or phrase used to describe a person
D) Rickety, falling apart
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Relating to space
B) Drink in
C) Concerning the sense of smell
D) Call by bugles or trumpets
  • 82. FIAT
A) Command
B) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
C) Apparent, professed
D) Fertile, abundant
  • 83. FESTER
A) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
B) Standstill, stalemate
C) Glowing ardor
D) A light meal
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Breeder or dealer of animals
B) Meeting
C) Make impossible, eliminate
D) Accuse, serve as evidence against
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Most sacred, inviolable
B) Spasmodic, intermittent
C) Unreal, grotesque
D) Bear fruit
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Fear or hatred of foreigners
B) Comprehend, investigate
C) Outward decorations, ornaments
D) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Interjection, profaner oath
B) Sorcery magic
C) Hardship, want
D) Person wearing tattered clothes
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Courtesy, civility
B) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
C) Vicious assault
D) Object of general attention
  • 89. FILCH
A) Aimless follower of the arts
B) Steal
C) Prolong
D) Burden
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Flabby
B) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
C) Vain about dress and appearance
D) Diligent attention
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Rough-mannered
B) Beginner, novice
C) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
D) Existence, means of support
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Wealthy leader
B) Foul, rotten
C) Someone who eats too much
D) Written statement made under oath
  • 93. GAWK
A) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
B) Inhabitant of
C) Generate pus
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) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
B) Reproduce, duplicate
C) Group that meets socially
D) Gather, store up
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Easily broken, difficult
B) Having the odor of stale fat
C) Bend the knee as in worship
D) Subordinate, secondary
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
B) Wasteful, reckless with money
C) Vague statement
D) Requiring sitting
  • 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) Crawl or creep on ground
C) Subordinate
D) Sky blue
  • 100. GOAD
A) Those of gentle birth, refinement
B) Juicy, full of richness
C) Urge on
D) Restrained, self-controlled
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