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