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