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