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