PET Word & Meaning2 - Quiz
  • 1. BACK
A) a container usually made of glass
B) the part behind the front
C) to do something
D) to damage severely
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to try to hear
B) to try to do as well as
C) to help with information
D) to give reasons for
  • 3. AGAIN
A) to say something that makes another person angry
B) another time, as before
C) a cloth cover used to keep warm
D) the hard material in the body
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) the number, size or weight of anything
B) having a thin edge that can cut
C) to show that the action is done
D) to have life, to exist
  • 5. AGE
A) to work as an official
B) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
C) how old a person or thing is
D) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
  • 6. ADMIT
A) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
B) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
C) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
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) To make known publicly, to declare officially
C) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
D) Different as possible, completely different from
  • 9. ACROSS
A) At the end, last
B) A building in which people live
C) A structure built over a waterway
D) From side to side, to the other side
  • 10. ASK
A) To guard or fight against attack
B) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
C) To question, to say something is wanted
D) Any business that produces goods or provides services
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) To add to or to change
B) The scientific study of stars and the universe
C) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
D) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) Truthful or able to be trusted
B) To move one way and the other
C) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
D) A number of people or things together
  • 13. ANSWER
A) To believe that someone is honest
B) To continue
C) To cause a feeling of wonder
D) A statement produced by a question
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) To sit, lie down or sleep
B) A family member from the past
C) A path on land or sea or in the air
D) The group that include children
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Needing an immediate decision
B) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
C) Very shortly before or after the present
D) Big guns
  • 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) Equally, when
C) To teach how to do something
D) A thought or picture in the mind
  • 18. AVOID
A) To stay away from
B) To come together with someone or something
C) To do or go fast
D) The coldest time of year
  • 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) A material made from a plant
C) At a higher place
D) To move smoothly over a surface
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) To put in order
B) A number representing the middle
C) To pull apart
D) To try with much effort
  • 22. AFRAID
A) To give, to provide
B) To take away blame
C) Feeling fear
D) Freedom from danger or harm
  • 23. ALMOST
A) However, other than
B) Of or having a relation to
C) To force a fluid into
D) A little less than completely
  • 24. AID
A) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
B) Land controlled by another country
C) To forgive for a crime
D) To help, to support
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) To study or examine all information
B) The force that pulls things
C) A mass of fog high in the sky
D) To agree to receive
  • 26. ACT
A) A word used with an action
B) To be of the correct size or shape
C) To do something
D) Having the power to do something
  • 27. ASH
A) The part left after something burns
B) The number meaning none
C) To extend for a distance
D) To hit again and again
  • 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 cause pain, injury or damage
B) The gas that comes from hot water
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) Place where airplanes take off
C) To give or receive one thing for another
D) Connecting word used to link things
  • 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) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
B) Brawl, melee
C) Courteous
D) Corrosive, sarcastic
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Rushing stream, flood
C) Lacking development
D) Winemaker, seller of wine
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) A place where bees are kept
B) Home
C) Abnormal or deviant
D) Treat gently, pamper
  • 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) Repentant
D) Subordinate
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Pardon an offense
B) Slander, disgrace
C) Characteristic of an entire class
D) Line
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Accidental, casual
B) Title, chapter heading
C) Enormously large or extensive
D) Projection, conjecture
  • 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) Dramatic poem set to music
B) Disloyal
C) Introduction, forerunner
D) Sentry, lookout
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Discord
B) Injury to the body
C) Turn away from
D) Enthusiastic follower
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Spiritual rebirth
B) Shrink back, as if in fear
C) Weightless
D) Skillful
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Openmouthed
B) Tyranny
C) Essentially, inherently
D) Secret, hidden
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Not able to be perceived by touch
B) Move briskly
C) Expressing a low opinion
D) Limit, confine
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Gradual intrusion
B) Bloody
C) Teaching, instructional
D) Substance that propels forward
  • 47. DIE
A) Declaration, statement of policy
B) Device for stamping or impressing
C) Confuse, puzzle
D) Knickknack, bauble
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Person hardened in sin
B) Behavior, bearing
C) Mischance, ill luck
D) Swollen or puffed as with water
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Make a harsh noise
B) Effusively sentimental
C) Dry up
D) Theme
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Scoff at
B) Waste
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) Blues, listlessness
D) Sign, omen
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
B) Basically different, unrelated
C) Slovenly, untidy
D) Solemn wonder
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Lacking in spirit
B) Something new, newness
C) Scowl
D) Honor, tribute
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Squander
B) Statement that looks false but is correct
C) Deserving high respect
D) Teaching, art of education
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Program as for trial
B) Connoisseur of food and drink
C) Enormously large or extensive
D) Method or system of government
  • 57. DORMER
A) Window projecting from roof
B) Profitable
C) Ardent
D) Stir up, instigate
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Perceive intuitively
B) Eating away by chemicals or disease
C) Happening at the same time
D) Stupid, awkward person
  • 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) Cloyingly sweet
B) Greedy, eager for
C) Beg persistently
D) Pouring forth, gushing
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Ability to foretell the future
B) Unruly
C) Explain, enlighten
D) Half asleep
  • 63. DULCET
A) Follow
B) Shell covering the back of a turtle
C) Sweet sounding
D) Excessive, overabundant
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Talkativeness
B) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
C) Conscientious, extremely thorough
D) High, lofty
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Fate
B) Command, order
C) Assist usually in doing something wrong
D) Confuse, upset
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) High praise, eulogy
B) Invention, imaginary thing
C) Courting favor by cringing
D) Choosing at random, confused
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Having womanly traits
B) Pompous array of words
C) Uncouple, separate
D) Beak, pen point
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Pale, wan
B) Instruct, correct morally
C) Title, chapter heading
D) Thrift, economy
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Hasty, rash
B) Issue forth
C) Period of equal days and nights
D) Copy
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Throw into confusion
B) Seize, commandeer
C) Stingy, excessively frugal
D) Not able to be perceived
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Dwarf, underground spirit
B) Relating to the highest point
C) Vex
D) Dissolve, disperse
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Bitterness, nerve
B) Tip
C) Connoisseur of food and drink
D) Vengeance, compensation
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
B) Lacking luxury and comfort
C) Having to do with predicting the future
D) Yellowed, prejudiced
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Not native, strange
B) Pertaining to the church
C) Pleasant, friendly
D) Anger, fury
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Speak distinctly
B) Giving off an odor
C) Showing off learning, bookish
D) Inform
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
B) Verbose, drawn out
C) Fair, impartial
D) Druggist
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Ornament worn on the shoulder
B) Grow tiresome
C) Marked with parallel bands
D) Liberal, wasteful
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Emit an odor
B) Impetuous, with marked vigor
C) Bold
D) Extremely demanding
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Extend, draw out
B) Serving as a model
C) Nearsighted
D) Wander aimlessly
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Imagined, unreal
B) Word or phrase used to describe a person
C) Rickety, falling apart
D) Bitterness, hatred
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Concerning the sense of smell
B) Relating to space
C) Call by bugles or trumpets
D) Drink in
  • 82. FIAT
A) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
B) Fertile, abundant
C) Command
D) Apparent, professed
  • 83. FESTER
A) Standstill, stalemate
B) Glowing ardor
C) A light meal
D) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Breeder or dealer of animals
B) Accuse, serve as evidence against
C) Meeting
D) Make impossible, eliminate
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Spasmodic, intermittent
B) Most sacred, inviolable
C) Bear fruit
D) Unreal, grotesque
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Outward decorations, ornaments
B) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
C) Fear or hatred of foreigners
D) Comprehend, investigate
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Person wearing tattered clothes
B) Sorcery magic
C) Interjection, profaner oath
D) Hardship, want
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Vicious assault
B) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
C) Courtesy, civility
D) Object of general attention
  • 89. FILCH
A) Steal
B) Prolong
C) Burden
D) Aimless follower of the arts
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Diligent attention
B) Flabby
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) Generate pus
B) Sharp projection form fishhook
C) Inhabitant of
D) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) Group that meets socially
B) One of a family of mammals
C) Motion, gesture
D) Purgative
  • 95. GARNER
A) Reproduce, duplicate
B) Gather, store up
C) Group that meets socially
D) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Having the odor of stale fat
B) Bend the knee as in worship
C) Subordinate, secondary
D) Easily broken, difficult
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Requiring sitting
B) Vague statement
C) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
D) Wasteful, reckless with money
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Profane, impious
B) Pertaining to the of delineating
C) Oppression, cruel government
D) False belief, hallucination
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Sky blue
B) Woman who rules a family
C) Subordinate
D) Crawl or creep on ground
  • 100. GOAD
A) Urge on
B) Juicy, full of richness
C) Those of gentle birth, refinement
D) Restrained, self-controlled
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