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