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