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