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