PET Word & Meaning2 - Skyndipróf
  • 1. BACK
A) a container usually made of glass
B) the part behind the front
C) to damage severely
D) to do something
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to give reasons for
B) to help with information
C) to try to hear
D) to try to do as well as
  • 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) to have life, to exist
C) the number, size or weight of anything
D) having a thin edge that can cut
  • 5. AGE
A) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
B) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
C) how old a person or thing is
D) to work as an official
  • 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) A long-established belief or activity of people
B) To return to good health, to cure
C) From higher to lower , in a low place
D) One or more of no special kind
  • 8. ANNOUNCE
A) To make known publicly, to declare officially
B) Different as possible, completely different from
C) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
D) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
  • 9. ACROSS
A) At the end, last
B) From side to side, to the other side
C) A structure built over a waterway
D) A building in which people live
  • 10. ASK
A) To question, to say something is wanted
B) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
C) Any business that produces goods or provides services
D) To guard or fight against attack
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) To add to or to change
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) The scientific study of stars and the universe
  • 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) A statement produced by a question
B) To believe that someone is honest
C) To cause a feeling of wonder
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) 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) Of time past, before now
B) A line of genes
C) Not guilty of a crime
D) A line of genes
  • 17. AS
A) Not expected, without warning
B) To teach how to do something
C) A thought or picture in the mind
D) Equally, when
  • 18. AVOID
A) To do or go fast
B) To stay away from
C) To come together with someone or something
D) The coldest time of year
  • 19. ANGER
A) To present to another to keep
B) A strong emotion against someone
C) To come with something
D) To make larger, to grow larger
  • 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) A number representing the middle
B) To put in order
C) To try with much effort
D) To pull apart
  • 22. AFRAID
A) Freedom from danger or harm
B) To give, to provide
C) Feeling fear
D) To take away blame
  • 23. ALMOST
A) Of or having a relation to
B) However, other than
C) A little less than completely
D) To force a fluid into
  • 24. AID
A) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
B) To help, to support
C) To forgive for a crime
D) Land controlled by another country
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) The force that pulls things
B) To study or examine all information
C) To agree to receive
D) A mass of fog high in the sky
  • 26. ACT
A) Having the power to do something
B) To be of the correct size or shape
C) To do something
D) A word used with an action
  • 27. ASH
A) The number meaning none
B) To hit again and again
C) To extend for a distance
D) The part left after something burns
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) Having much knowledge and understanding
B) To cause great fear
C) To express regret for a mistake
D) Able to be done
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
B) To cause pain, injury or damage
C) The gas that comes from hot water
D) To act toward in a special way
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) To make a part of
B) Place where airplanes take off
C) Connecting word used to link things
D) To give or receive one thing for another
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A large collection of money
B) Not one or the other two
C) A spending plan
D) To be against
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Courteous
B) Brawl, melee
C) Corrosive, sarcastic
D) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Lacking development
C) Winemaker, seller of wine
D) Rushing stream, flood
  • 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) Solemn urging
D) Cancel, retract
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Moving force, Incentive
B) Subordinate
C) Something attached holding an inferior position
D) Repentant
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Slander, disgrace
B) Characteristic of an entire class
C) Line
D) Pardon an offense
  • 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) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
B) Chew the cud, ponder
C) To strip a priest or minister
D) Wretched, lacking pride
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Disloyal
B) Sentry, lookout
C) Dramatic poem set to music
D) Introduction, forerunner
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Turn away from
B) Injury to the body
C) Enthusiastic follower
D) Discord
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Spiritual rebirth
B) Weightless
C) Skillful
D) Shrink back, as if in fear
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Essentially, inherently
B) Openmouthed
C) Secret, hidden
D) Tyranny
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Limit, confine
B) Not able to be perceived by touch
C) Expressing a low opinion
D) Move briskly
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Teaching, instructional
B) Bloody
C) Substance that propels forward
D) Gradual intrusion
  • 47. DIE
A) Device for stamping or impressing
B) Declaration, statement of policy
C) Confuse, puzzle
D) Knickknack, bauble
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Behavior, bearing
B) Swollen or puffed as with water
C) Mischance, ill luck
D) Person hardened in sin
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Make a harsh noise
B) Effusively sentimental
C) Dry up
D) Theme
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Call upon, ask for
B) Survey of enemy by soldiers
C) Scoff at
D) Waste
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Lack of consistency, difference
B) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
C) Something long-lasting
D) Contract into wrinkles
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Sign, omen
B) Essential quality
C) Temporary invasion
D) Blues, listlessness
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Slovenly, untidy
B) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
C) Solemn wonder
D) Basically different, unrelated
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Honor, tribute
B) Something new, newness
C) Lacking in spirit
D) Scowl
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Squander
B) Statement that looks false but is correct
C) Teaching, art of education
D) Deserving high respect
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Program as for trial
B) Method or system of government
C) Connoisseur of food and drink
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 57. DORMER
A) Profitable
B) Window projecting from roof
C) Stir up, instigate
D) Ardent
  • 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) Courage
B) Put on
C) Clever
D) Decay
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Scatter like seeds
B) Guardianship
C) Ghostly
D) Financial aid
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Cloyingly sweet
B) Beg persistently
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) Follow
B) Shell covering the back of a turtle
C) Sweet sounding
D) Excessive, overabundant
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Conscientious, extremely thorough
B) High, lofty
C) Talkativeness
D) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Fate
B) Confuse, upset
C) Assist usually in doing something wrong
D) Command, order
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) High praise, eulogy
B) Choosing at random, confused
C) Courting favor by cringing
D) Invention, imaginary thing
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Beak, pen point
B) Having womanly traits
C) Pompous array of words
D) Uncouple, separate
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Thrift, economy
B) Instruct, correct morally
C) Pale, wan
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Copy
B) Period of equal days and nights
C) Hasty, rash
D) Issue forth
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Seize, commandeer
B) Throw into confusion
C) Not able to be perceived
D) Stingy, excessively frugal
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Vex
B) Dissolve, disperse
C) Relating to the highest point
D) Dwarf, underground spirit
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Bitterness, nerve
B) Connoisseur of food and drink
C) Tip
D) Vengeance, compensation
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
B) Having to do with predicting the future
C) Lacking luxury and comfort
D) Yellowed, prejudiced
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Pleasant, friendly
B) Not native, strange
C) Pertaining to the church
D) Anger, fury
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Giving off an odor
B) Inform
C) Speak distinctly
D) Showing off learning, bookish
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
B) Fair, impartial
C) Druggist
D) Verbose, drawn out
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Liberal, wasteful
B) Ornament worn on the shoulder
C) Marked with parallel bands
D) Grow tiresome
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Extremely demanding
B) Emit an odor
C) Bold
D) Impetuous, with marked vigor
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Wander aimlessly
B) Nearsighted
C) Extend, draw out
D) Serving as a model
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Bitterness, hatred
B) Word or phrase used to describe a person
C) Rickety, falling apart
D) Imagined, unreal
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Drink in
B) Concerning the sense of smell
C) Relating to space
D) Call by bugles or trumpets
  • 82. FIAT
A) Apparent, professed
B) Fertile, abundant
C) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
D) Command
  • 83. FESTER
A) Glowing ardor
B) A light meal
C) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
D) Standstill, stalemate
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Breeder or dealer of animals
B) Accuse, serve as evidence against
C) Make impossible, eliminate
D) Meeting
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Unreal, grotesque
B) Most sacred, inviolable
C) Bear fruit
D) Spasmodic, intermittent
  • 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) Vicious assault
B) Courtesy, civility
C) Object of general attention
D) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
  • 89. FILCH
A) Burden
B) Aimless follower of the arts
C) Prolong
D) Steal
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Flabby
B) Vain about dress and appearance
C) Diligent attention
D) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
B) Rough-mannered
C) Existence, means of support
D) Beginner, novice
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Foul, rotten
B) Someone who eats too much
C) Wealthy leader
D) Written statement made under oath
  • 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) Having the odor of stale fat
B) Subordinate, secondary
C) Bend the knee as in worship
D) Easily broken, difficult
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Vague statement
B) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
C) Requiring sitting
D) Wasteful, reckless with money
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Profane, impious
B) False belief, hallucination
C) Pertaining to the of delineating
D) Oppression, cruel government
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Crawl or creep on ground
B) Woman who rules a family
C) Sky blue
D) Subordinate
  • 100. GOAD
A) Those of gentle birth, refinement
B) Urge on
C) Juicy, full of richness
D) Restrained, self-controlled
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