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