AVID VOCAB WEEK 10 CONT… Flashcards
Perambulator
Baby carriage
Penury
Extreme poverty
Percipient
Discerning, able to perceive
Perdition
Complete and utter loss; damnation
Peregrinate
To wander from place to place
Perennial
Present throughout the years; persistent
Perfidious
Faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy
Perfunctory
Done in a routine way; indifferent
Perihelion
Point in orbit nearest to the sun
Peripatetic
Moving from place to place
Permeable
Penetrable
Pernicious
Very harmful
Perspicacious
shrewd, astute, keen-witted
Perpetual
Endless, lasting
Pert
Lively and bold
Pertinent
Applicable, appropriate
Perturbation
Disturbance
Perusal
Close examination
Pestilence
Epidemic, plague
Petulance
Rudeness, peevishness
Phalanx
Massed group of soldiers, people, or things