PET Word & Meaning2
  • 1. BACK
A) to do something
B) to damage severely
C) a container usually made of glass
D) the part behind the front
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to give reasons for
B) to try to do as well as
C) to help with information
D) to try to hear
  • 3. AGAIN
A) another time, as before
B) a cloth cover used to keep warm
C) the hard material in the body
D) to say something that makes another person angry
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) to show that the action is done
B) having a thin edge that can cut
C) the number, size or weight of anything
D) to have life, to exist
  • 5. AGE
A) how old a person or thing is
B) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
C) to work as an official
D) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
  • 6. ADMIT
A) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
B) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
C) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
D) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
  • 7. ANY
A) To return to good health, to cure
B) A long-established belief or activity of people
C) From higher to lower , in a low place
D) One or more of no special kind
  • 8. ANNOUNCE
A) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
B) To make known publicly, to declare officially
C) Different as possible, completely different from
D) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
  • 9. ACROSS
A) At the end, last
B) A structure built over a waterway
C) From side to side, to the other side
D) A building in which people live
  • 10. ASK
A) To question, to say something is wanted
B) Any business that produces goods or provides services
C) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
D) To guard or fight against attack
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) To add to or to change
B) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
C) The scientific study of stars and the universe
D) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
  • 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) A statement produced by a question
C) To believe that someone is honest
D) To continue
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) A family member from the past
B) To sit, lie down or sleep
C) A path on land or sea or in the air
D) The group that include children
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Big guns
B) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
C) Very shortly before or after the present
D) Needing an immediate decision
  • 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) To teach how to do something
B) Equally, when
C) Not expected, without warning
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) A strong emotion against someone
B) To come with something
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) At a higher place
D) To move smoothly over a surface
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) To try with much effort
B) To put in order
C) To pull apart
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) A little less than completely
B) However, other than
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) To agree to receive
B) To study or examine all information
C) A mass of fog high in the sky
D) The force that pulls things
  • 26. ACT
A) To be of the correct size or shape
B) A word used with an action
C) Having the power to do something
D) To do something
  • 27. ASH
A) To hit again and again
B) The part left after something burns
C) To extend for a distance
D) The number meaning none
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) To cause great fear
B) Having much knowledge and understanding
C) To express regret for a mistake
D) Able to be done
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) The gas that comes from hot water
B) To cause pain, injury or damage
C) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
D) To act toward in a special way
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) To make a part of
B) To give or receive one thing for another
C) Connecting word used to link things
D) Place where airplanes take off
  • 31. BUDGET
A) Not one or the other two
B) A large collection of money
C) A spending plan
D) To be against
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Courteous
B) Corrosive, sarcastic
C) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
D) Brawl, melee
  • 33. ADORN
A) Winemaker, seller of wine
B) Decorate
C) Lacking development
D) Rushing stream, flood
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Treat gently, pamper
B) Home
C) Abnormal or deviant
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) Moving force, Incentive
B) Something attached holding an inferior position
C) Subordinate
D) Repentant
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Line
B) Pardon an offense
C) Characteristic of an entire class
D) Slander, disgrace
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Projection, conjecture
B) Enormously large or extensive
C) Title, chapter heading
D) Accidental, casual
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Suggest a meaning not expressed
B) Express sympathetic sorrow
C) Chew the cud, ponder
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) Dramatic poem set to music
B) Sentry, lookout
C) Disloyal
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) Essentially, inherently
C) Openmouthed
D) Secret, hidden
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Move briskly
B) Expressing a low opinion
C) Limit, confine
D) Not able to be perceived by touch
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Teaching, instructional
B) Substance that propels forward
C) Gradual intrusion
D) Bloody
  • 47. DIE
A) Knickknack, bauble
B) Device for stamping or impressing
C) Declaration, statement of policy
D) Confuse, puzzle
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Swollen or puffed as with water
B) Mischance, ill luck
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) Call upon, ask for
B) Waste
C) Scoff at
D) Survey of enemy by soldiers
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Lack of consistency, difference
B) Something long-lasting
C) Contract into wrinkles
D) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Essential quality
B) Sign, omen
C) Temporary invasion
D) Blues, listlessness
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
B) Slovenly, untidy
C) Solemn wonder
D) Basically different, unrelated
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Lacking in spirit
B) Honor, tribute
C) Something new, newness
D) Scowl
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Teaching, art of education
B) Squander
C) Deserving high respect
D) Statement that looks false but is correct
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Connoisseur of food and drink
B) Enormously large or extensive
C) Program as for trial
D) Method or system of government
  • 57. DORMER
A) Ardent
B) Window projecting from roof
C) Stir up, instigate
D) Profitable
  • 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) Courage
B) Clever
C) Decay
D) Put on
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Scatter like seeds
B) Financial aid
C) Guardianship
D) Ghostly
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Cloyingly sweet
B) Greedy, eager for
C) Pouring forth, gushing
D) Beg persistently
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Half asleep
B) Ability to foretell the future
C) Explain, enlighten
D) Unruly
  • 63. DULCET
A) Excessive, overabundant
B) Follow
C) Shell covering the back of a turtle
D) Sweet sounding
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Conscientious, extremely thorough
B) High, lofty
C) Talkativeness
D) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Assist usually in doing something wrong
B) Command, order
C) Fate
D) Confuse, upset
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) High praise, eulogy
B) Choosing at random, confused
C) Courting favor by cringing
D) Invention, imaginary thing
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Uncouple, separate
B) Beak, pen point
C) Having womanly traits
D) Pompous array of words
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Instruct, correct morally
B) Title, chapter heading
C) Pale, wan
D) Thrift, economy
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Hasty, rash
B) Period of equal days and nights
C) Issue forth
D) Copy
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Not able to be perceived
B) Stingy, excessively frugal
C) Throw into confusion
D) Seize, commandeer
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Vex
B) Dissolve, disperse
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Relating to the highest point
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Vengeance, compensation
B) Bitterness, nerve
C) Tip
D) Connoisseur of food and drink
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
B) Yellowed, prejudiced
C) Lacking luxury and comfort
D) Having to do with predicting the future
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Pertaining to the church
B) Anger, fury
C) Not native, strange
D) Pleasant, friendly
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Speak distinctly
B) Giving off an odor
C) Showing off learning, bookish
D) Inform
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Druggist
B) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
C) Fair, impartial
D) Verbose, drawn out
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Liberal, wasteful
B) Grow tiresome
C) Marked with parallel bands
D) Ornament worn on the shoulder
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Extremely demanding
B) Bold
C) Emit an odor
D) Impetuous, with marked vigor
  • 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) Relating to space
B) Drink in
C) Concerning the sense of smell
D) Call by bugles or trumpets
  • 82. FIAT
A) Apparent, professed
B) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
C) Command
D) Fertile, abundant
  • 83. FESTER
A) A light meal
B) Glowing ardor
C) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
D) Standstill, stalemate
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Make impossible, eliminate
B) Meeting
C) Breeder or dealer of animals
D) Accuse, serve as evidence against
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Unreal, grotesque
B) Bear fruit
C) Most sacred, inviolable
D) Spasmodic, intermittent
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Fear or hatred of foreigners
B) Outward decorations, ornaments
C) Comprehend, investigate
D) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Person wearing tattered clothes
B) Hardship, want
C) Interjection, profaner oath
D) Sorcery magic
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
B) Object of general attention
C) Vicious assault
D) Courtesy, civility
  • 89. FILCH
A) Aimless follower of the arts
B) Steal
C) Burden
D) Prolong
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Vain about dress and appearance
B) Flabby
C) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
D) Diligent attention
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Rough-mannered
B) Existence, means of support
C) Beginner, novice
D) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Wealthy leader
B) Foul, rotten
C) Written statement made under oath
D) Someone who eats too much
  • 93. GAWK
A) Generate pus
B) Inhabitant of
C) Sharp projection form fishhook
D) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Group that meets socially
B) Purgative
C) One of a family of mammals
D) Motion, gesture
  • 95. GARNER
A) Gather, store up
B) Reproduce, duplicate
C) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
D) Group that meets socially
  • 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) Vague statement
B) Requiring sitting
C) Wasteful, reckless with money
D) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) False belief, hallucination
B) Oppression, cruel government
C) Pertaining to the of delineating
D) Profane, impious
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Subordinate
B) Woman who rules a family
C) Sky blue
D) Crawl or creep on ground
  • 100. GOAD
A) Restrained, self-controlled
B) Urge on
C) Juicy, full of richness
D) Those of gentle birth, refinement
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